Academic Computing

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Syntax highlighting is such a ubiquitous feature in program editors that we often give it very little thought. It’s even like an indicator of program code: you can tell something is code if it is in a fixed-width font and some of the words are consistently coloured. It’s clearly a popular feature but is it actually helpful? The latest paper on this (paywalled, alas) is by Hannebauer et al, which I found via Greg Wilson.

Paul Gordon Brown

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Educational and curricular efforts exist in context. Furthermore, residence life and education departments do not exist on an island. When developing a campus or residential curriculum, it is important to identify partners and stakeholders early on and include them in the curriculum design process. This inclusion can include stages from planning to implementation, and throughout assessment and review processes.

Inclusivity

The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Growing Universities with Post-Traditional Students podcast with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Carol Aslanian, a market researcher who helps colleges build strategies and new programming to increase enrollment by focusing on post-traditional students, those students who used to be called adult students. Carol began her career in higher education research in the 1980s at The College Board.

Students

Terminalfour

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Without a focused strategy it can be money poorly spent. An approach relying purely on outbidding competitors through pay per click is no longer going to work.

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Students

Terminalfour

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Our 5th international Higher Education survey to date has now launched, packed with digital marketing insights. How do you compare? What are the latest trends?

Higher Education

The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Growing Enrollment in Higher Ed with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Dewey Clark, a very special university president. Unlike most of his contemporaries, his undergraduate degree is from the school he is now leading, and following graduation, was invited to work on staff in admissions which he did for nine years before going off for a 24-year career in business.

Recruitment

Paul Gordon Brown

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Because developing a residential curriculum entails refocusing your departmental efforts towards student learning, it necessarily follows that you must develop a culture of assessment. A culture of assessment is one in which decisions are data-driven and tested through the design, implementation, and review of assessment measures. As Lakos and Phipps (2004) describe it, a culture of assessment is: An organizational environment in which decisions are based on facts, research, and analysis, and wh

Environment

Academic Computing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Yesterday on Twitter, Jens Moenig had some kind words to say about our journal paper on Stride and complained about its repeated rejection from other journals as a symptom of incorrect criteria for accepting computing education research papers (head to twitter for the full thread): The original Stride paper by @neilccbrown & @michaelkolling , which I thought was one of the best I'd ever reviewed was rejected – several times – by people in this very thread for being a design r

Education

The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Neg Reg 2018 Washington Update with the Changing Higher Ed podcast host, Dr. Drumm McNaughton, Jeri Prochaska, and Tom Netting of CSPEN, the Central States Private Education Network, represent higher ed institutions nationwide to public policymakers in Washington and throughout the nation. CSPEN is focused on making sure that the education industry has all the information thats coming out of Washington.

Guidance