Cisco blogs - Education
AUGUST 30, 2022
The higher education sector has a major role to play in the journey to Net Zero – both in terms of reducing its own environmental footprint and by helping to develop new climate technologies through applied research and co-innovation with industry. The convergence of digital and Net Zero is a new frontier for innovation and is another major driver for Universities digital transformation.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 31, 2022
How, in a polarized nation, Stephanie L. Liberatore asks, should we be teaching argument in the academy? Should we be focusing less on persuasion and more on understanding? Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty teachinglearning Section: Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Teaching Show on Jobs site: Image Source: DMEPhotography/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
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Higher Ed Data Stories
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
This is a sort of a lull for Higher Ed Data Stories. It's summer, for one, and the data release cycles have not yet geared up. So instead, I want to write about the ten things that would make it easier to produce HEDS on those occasions when there is good data to work with. You know I use Tableau to create the data visualizations you find here. It's been a tool that has changed my career: The value of being able to answer questions with a click (especially when you're in a room with someone up t
The Academic Designer
AUGUST 30, 2022
Dr. Lisa Munro talks about how to kickstart your journal article. Did you know she has a private community for academic writers on Mighty Networks?
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MindMax
AUGUST 29, 2022
Education is one of the most transformative experiences in a person’s life. And yet, due to circumstances largely beyond their control, many people who enroll in college don’t have the opportunity to complete their degree. In my experience engaging with students who have stopped out or dropped out of college, I’ve found that almost every single one of them feels a great deal of guilt and shame associated with not achieving their goal.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. Administrators say the lure of better-paying industry jobs coupled with the high cost of living in Flagstaff, Ariz., an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.
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Higher Ed Ethics Watch
AUGUST 30, 2022
Expectations and Realities. I have blogged before about how to teach ethics to college students. There is no one best way to do so and a variety of methods have been tried. But first, we need to consider what the goals should be of teaching ethics to college students. Here are some of my thoughts. Goals of Ethics Education. Relate education to moral issues that college students may face in their personal and professional lives.
Kortext University Leaders' Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
School’s back for autumn – time to turn off the Alice Cooper and get students pumped for the next academic year. But we know that student engagement is no easy feat. As students and universities alike learn to navigate and master digitally enhanced teaching and learning, maintaining student engagement can be a real challenge – especially when it comes to engagement with course reading.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: Mixed-gender research teams remain significantly underrepresented in science. At the same time, male-female teams are more likely to produce novel and highly cited research than are same-gender teams. Both findings are from a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper focuses on academic medicine, as its authors started writing it during COVID-19 and academic medicine is a funding behemoth.
The Berkeley Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In 1862, during the midst of the Civil War, Congress had a bold vision. They passed the Morrill Act which provided land grants to states to establish colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts to teach practical agriculture, science, military science and engineering. It was on this foundation that the University of California was launched.
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Google and its charitable foundation Google.org have announced $20 million in new grants to help expand access to computer science education to millions more students in under-resourced communities across the country, particularly rural and urban areas.
HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Listen Now: Attention Retention, Episode 6. Together with our friends at Enrollify, Archer Education is bringing you a podcast about attracting and retaining the modern, adult learner. Listen in every other Tuesday this summer for Attention Retention : a six-part series with Angie Mohr, Clayton Dean, and Zach Busekrus. Episode 6: How To Capture And Keep The Attention Of Today’s Prospective Students.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 29, 2022
Category: Carpe Careers If you have experienced such fears once, you’ll probably confront them again as your career advances, writes Angela Fowler, who recommends having a set of tools that will assist you in overcoming them. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: useng/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
HEM (Higher Education Marketing)
AUGUST 31, 2022
Reading Time: 12 minutes By now, you’ve likely heard about the changes that Google is making to its analytics tool. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) will go into effect on July 1, 2023. This gives your school a short window to learn everything there is to know about the new changes in web analytics for higher education —including how to properly set up, track, and compare your metrics. .
Campus Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has selected 12 postsecondary institutions to participate in a community of practice called "No Holding Back," tasked with examining the effects that administrative holds have on students.
WCET Frontiers
AUGUST 30, 2022
It’s Back to School time and while the season is filled with its typical excitement for new beginnings, this year there are certainly additional considerations when it comes to heading back to campus. Today we welcome back Kara Monroe, who continues her excellent list of guest appearances with a focus on returning to campus and remote work. Does your campus have a remote work policy?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
There has to be a better approach, one that doesn’t involve leaving academe or staying yet simply slogging through each day with little to no enthusiasm, writes Rebecca Vidra. Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Source: dickcraft/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Continuous Learning Institute
AUGUST 29, 2022
( A. Solano ). The ability of faculty to change—from external to internal attributions—is a foundational ingredient in student success, particularly for Latina/o/x students. External attributions assign blame for something that is beyond a faculty's control. The primary factor that faculty have control over is their internal attributions--the ability to consistently improve their craft.
Campus Technology
AUGUST 31, 2022
A new collaboration among the Hawai?i State Department of Education (HIDOE), University of Hawai?i System (UH), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) aims to build a cloud computing talent pipeline from high school through higher education, with a short-term goal of training and certifying 150 learners by 2025.
ACRLog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
It’s hard to believe, but we’re already wrapping up week two of the fall semester at my campus. This means that my information literacy instruction responsibilities are starting to ramp up. Teaching has been a big part of every library job I’ve had since grad school. So it naturally follows that teaching dominates a lot of my time and thinking, not to mention my posts here–from reflections on experimenting with specific activities or strategies in the classroom to the evolution of my teach
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 30, 2022
Image: A group of five Black students at Brigham Young University, who call themselves the Black Menaces, started a TikTok account earlier this year where they post videos of themselves posing questions to their mostly white classmates about race and identity. Questions range from what Juneteenth commemorates to whether students have queer friends on campus and whether institutional racism exists.
Jon Boeckenstedt
AUGUST 31, 2022
Yesterday, IECA and Oregon State University officially launched the AXS Companion, to help any student navigate the Common Application process. The project is over a year in the making, and is a collaborative effort between IECA and Oregon State University, using the talent and resources of both, with special assistance from OSU’s award-winning Ecampus.
Campus Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
Pearson has added Channels, a curated library of educational videos, to its Pearson+ e-textbook subscription service.
Rena Seltzer, Leader Academic
AUGUST 30, 2022
Join us for this dynamic ten-week group for faculty members as we address how to survive and thrive in academia. “I am a happier, healthier, higher-impact, and more productive academic, thanks to Rena’s coaching and book.” – Dolly Chugh, Associate Professor, NYU Stern School of Business The fall session will start in September, 2022 and will meet for ten weeks, with the day and time determined by early registrants.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Image: Stephen F. Austin State University, one of the last Texas public universities to remain independent, might finally shed its unaffiliated status—a step that highlights the increasing complexities involved with running a college or university. “It’s becoming more difficult to be a stand-alone institution,” interim Stephen F.
The Higher Ed Marketer
AUGUST 30, 2022
Since the pandemic, many higher ed marketers have gone to pay-per-click ads to generate leads. In the near future, Google is changing its cookie-based metrics andthe playing field will change significantly. Today’s guests have a new approach to generating leads for institutions. . PJ Wenzel and Marty Gray are the President and Vice President of Ring Digital , and their goal is to help their clients efficiently and effectively reach their target audience without the reliance on PPC.
Campus Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
If you're looking for software and services to augment online and blended instruction, start here.
The Change Leader, Inc.
AUGUST 30, 2022
Brandon Busteed is the Chief Partnership Officer and Global Head of Learn-Work Innovation at Kaplan. In his recent article published by Forbes, Busteed cites data showing a monumental shift in Americans’ perspectives about the quality of online education. According to a New American survey, 55% of Americans now rate the quality of online education as being equal to or better than in-person education.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. The task force evaluated all programs for sustainability based on criteria such as enrollment, ultimately dividing them into four categories last year: strategically invest, maintain, challenged and reconfigure.
Dr. Missy Alexander
AUGUST 29, 2022
On August 12, Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona, announced a series of funding opportunities for minority-serving institutions. In launching this new grant program he noted: “It’s a cruel irony that institutions that serve the most students with the most to gain from a college degree have the fewest resources to invest in student success.” Amen!
Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson
AUGUST 29, 2022
The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is no longer from ‘essay mills’ and contract cheating but from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not so long ago that academics complained that essay mills, ‘contract cheating’ services, and commercial companies piecing together ‘bespoke’ answers to standard essay questions, were undermining the integration of higher education’s assessment processes.
Higher Education Inquirer
AUGUST 30, 2022
The US Department of Education (ED) continues to paint rosy projections about higher education enrollment despite harsh economic and demographic realities--and increasing skepticism about the value of college degrees. Image from Digest of Education Statistics (2022) Since 2011, higher education enrollment has declined every year--a more than decade long trend.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 29, 2022
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Are you old enough to remember The Reader’s Diges t’s most popular feature: “The Most Unforgettable Character I Ever Met”? When I was a callow 19, I had the incredible good fortune met three truly unforgettable geniuses: Arna Bontemps, Aaron Douglas, and Georgia O’Keeffe. I had embarked on a senior thesis on Jean Toomer, the recently reclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet and author.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 31, 2022
Image: Students in a business class at Porterville College in California recently joined a video call with students from Iraq for an instructor-facilitated discussion on the United Nations’ sustainability goals. Afterward, the groups dispersed to seek input about the nature of local sustainability challenges from members of their respective communities.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
Image: Concerned with violence near campus, Temple University has rolled out a variety of safety measures. Its latest effort, set to launch next month, is a database ranking nearby properties that scores rental units on a variety of safety measures. The idea has been in the works since spring and is part of a multipronged approach to public safety for the Philadelphia campus, which has seen a number of violent incidents in nearby neighborhoods—including a student killed in a botched robber
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Image: With public schools facing a dearth of teachers and traditional teacher-training programs struggling to reverse a long-declining enrollment trend , for-profit companies offering “alternative certification programs” are rising to fill states’ needs. Enrollment in for-profit alternative teacher-certification programs grew by 48,000 students nationally, or 283 percent, from 2010–11 to 2018–19, according to a 2022 study jointly conducted by the left-leaning think
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