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Modular education: Bridging the gap between academia and workforce demands

Liaison International

3 ways to help institutions understand how to strategically create, implement, and audit their modular education programs As the demand for real-life skills in the workforce intensifies, higher education institutions are increasingly turning to modular education to bridge the gap between academic learning and practical application.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. Teaching Graduate Students to Write: A seminar for thesis and dissertation writers.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). The Review of Higher Education , 34(1), 61-84. Caspersen, J.,

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Teaching interdisciplinary research practices has gained attention in higher education, shifting from primarily focusing on modeling interdisciplinary research to explicitly addressing how and why interdisciplinary research should be performed (Szostak, 2007). The Review of Higher Education , 34(1), 61-84. Caspersen, J.,

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. Teaching Graduate Students to Write: A seminar for thesis and dissertation writers.

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Information Literacy Beyond Fact-Checking

ACRLog

More specifically, it’s been bothering me ever since I first engaged with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (referred to here on as the Framework). On a base-level, literacy is a key component of the modernizing project that has been occurring in Western academia since the Enlightenment era.