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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Nicholas B. Dr. Nicholas B. Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks.

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High-achieving Indian alumni honoured in UK

The PIE News

The winners of the Achievers honours 2024: Arts, culture and education Asma Khan | Graduated from King’s College London Khan founded the Darjeeling Express after starting the business as a home supper club. The India-UK Achievers Honours celebrate the professional and social contributions of Indians who have studied in the UK.

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

The Commons debated ‘Higher Education’ on 28 November 2012. Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This piece is the second part of two on the topic of institutional autonomy.

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! Students want to contribute something to make a difference—if only we gave them the chance. The reason for this is the strength of the emotions we felt at the time. 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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