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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Curiosity Learning occurs when new situations are presented, open-ended questions are posed, higher-order thinking and imagination are piqued, shared conversations are promoted, and assorted outcomes are possible. What motivates one may not motivate all. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

We’ve done the same thing in the context of higher education. Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Higher education research has also been critiqued for occupying a relatively marginal place within the wider discipline of educational research. When we look at the extant literature, there seems to be cause for concern.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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In the search for jobs, should disadvantaged students behave more like middle-class students … or should the labour market change?

HEPI

Plato around a seminar table this ain’t Wildavsky usefully nails the idea that higher education is contrary to skills-based learning, noting that even the ‘land-grant institutions’ founded in the US over a century ago provide practical experience. Upskilling and reskilling.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Curiosity Learning occurs when new situations are presented, open-ended questions are posed, higher-order thinking and imagination are piqued, shared conversations are promoted, and assorted outcomes are possible. What motivates one may not motivate all. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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