Wonkhe
MAY 14, 2023
Curriculum change is everywhere - and Wonkhe and Adobe want to know what's going on. Mark Andrews and Debbie McVitty introduce a new investigation into how universities are making their ambitions for their students a reality The post We’re asking questions about curriculum transformation appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 17, 2023
The proposed legislation would rewrite many of higher education's norms. A companion bill is pending in the state House.
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The PIE News
MAY 15, 2023
A landmark report by various stakeholders in the UK has revealed that international students boosted the country’s economy by £41.9bn in the academic year 2021/22. The benefits and costs of international higher education students to the UK economy, compiled by Universities UK International , HEPI and Kaplan International Pathways , showed that the corresponding cost of the students to taxpayers was just £4.4bn.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 17, 2023
Too many researchers have become the unwitting victims of corporate capture. By Nina Strohminger and Olúfémi Táíwò Illustration by The Chronicle Too many researchers have become the unwitting victims of corporate capture.
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The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.
Wonkhe
MAY 18, 2023
Mental health issues are widespread among university staff, and we still don’t really know how deep the problem goes. For Pathik Pathak, the first step is more openness The post Universities need to normalise mental illness appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 18, 2023
DEI statements are “loyalty oaths,” alleges a former University of Toronto faculty member who sought a UC campus job.
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HEPI
MAY 18, 2023
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought. Classical economists were stuck with the mindset that laissez-faire would ultimately produce a recovery.
Wonkhe
MAY 16, 2023
Higher education providers have to collect, understand, analyse and submit huge swathes of data - but why? Andy Youell feels burdened The post We need to talk about data burden appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 17, 2023
The agency also introduced regulatory proposals to collect and publish new data from all colleges, like potential earnings.
FIRE
MAY 15, 2023
As FIRE said when this bill passed the legislature: Prohibiting ideas in the name of freedom is not freedom at all. It is censorship.
Campus Technology
MAY 17, 2023
Based on a survey of college students over the last three semesters, students understand that remotely attending a lecture via remote synchronous technology is less effective for them than attending in person, but they highly value the flexibility of this option of attending when they need it.
Wonkhe
MAY 13, 2023
In its scramble to improve employability, the sector risks appropriating experiential learning in ways that leave behind the truly transformative pedagogies, argues Mark Peace The post Deeper pedagogies are key to cracking open the black box of experiential learning appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 15, 2023
The university's board voted Monday to cease operations, following a failed merger attempt with Trocaire College.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
MAY 19, 2023
By Adrienne Lu The faculty member, who applied unsuccessfully for a job at UC-Santa Cruz, says the statements are not a legitimate way to assess candidates but are efforts "to ensure dogmatic conformity.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 16, 2023
Morehouse College’s Social Problems course typically fills up with freshman and sophomores who want to wrestle with some of the knottiest issues of our time, including interpersonal violence, political corruption, pollution, homelessness, and racial and ethnic conflict. It’s a challenging class that Dr. Kendrick Brown, Morehouse’s provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, describes as the best of what the school has to offer.
Wonkhe
MAY 18, 2023
This week on the podcast student suicides and a duty of care have been discussed in Parliament - but would such a duty help or hinder in efforts to support students? The post Podcast: Duty of care, international students, drugs appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 18, 2023
Legislation would block trans players from joining teams aligned with their gender identity. Pro-LGBTQ+ groups call the measure cruel.
Continuous Learning Institute
MAY 19, 2023
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE: Learn how kindness translates into equitable teaching practices In this episode, I interview Dr. Dayamudra Dennehy, ESL Faculty & Distance Education Coordinator at City College of San Francisco. (Scroll down to access the transcript.) We cover the following key topics: 5:39:75: ChatGP/AI and the relationship with teaching & learning. 14:08:50: Assessing student learning. 18:33:00: Trust and kindness toward students matters. 35:23:25: The value that teachers bring v
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 16, 2023
Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. 1, 2023. Patricia Timmons-Goodson Timmons-Goodson is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice, the fourth woman and the first African American woman in the role. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. She is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and co-chair of the board of the NC Justice Center.
Wonkhe
MAY 18, 2023
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag carries a stern warning The post Higher education postcard: regulations appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 19, 2023
EY and Times Higher Education suggested leaders consider merging with other institutions, cutting programs that lose money and investing in digital learning.
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 18, 2023
At Michigan, Getting an A Because Your Instructor’s On Strike Featured Image at Top of Article UMich Strike - 2023-05-18.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MAY 17, 2023
Room 170 at Burk Hall was ahead of its time. In 2005, more than a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the modern era of online and hybrid learning in higher education, this classroom on the campus of San Francisco State University was outfitted for the budding field of online learning. Brian Beatty, a professor of instructional design and technology at SFSU, says that in those first days, Burk 170 looked like a computer lab, with machines lining the sides of the room and more traditio
Wonkhe
MAY 16, 2023
As the volume of duties, expectations and campaigns to teach or train students in different aspects of student life grows, Jim Dickinson considers how universities might navigate the new burden The post PSHE in HE is here. It’s time to implement it properly appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 15, 2023
The Education Department should ramp up communications about the plans as it rolls out regulations to expand them, New America said.
University Business
MAY 19, 2023
The pandemic was more than an inconvenient wrinkle to higher education. It may have transformed the sector for good, and those that cannot adapt shouldn’t be surprised when they close, according to a new joint report from Ernst & Young and Times Higher Education. “Are universities of the past still the future?” challenges higher education leaders to consider a scenario where campus-based higher ed never bounces back post-pandemic.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 18, 2023
In my elementary school there was one Black teacher, Ms. Terri Moore. I never had her as my teacher, but I knew she existed. She also knew me. We often smiled at each other in the hallway. In 5 th grade, Ms. Moore asked me to recite a speech for Black History Month. I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebra
Wonkhe
MAY 14, 2023
The oral evidence sessions at the the Industry and Regulators Committee haves been compulsive viewing for higher education policy fans, so David Kernohan summarises the story so far as we await the last episode The post Previously at the Industry and Regulators Committee appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 15, 2023
The prohibition would apply to public and private institutions and would heavily fine them if they violated it.
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 17, 2023
University of Phoenix to Affiliate With University of Idaho Featured Image at Top of Article Idaho-Phoenix-2023-05-17.
EdTech Magazine - Higher Education
MAY 18, 2023
In 2020, colleges and universities adopted remote learning tools not because they wanted to, but because they needed to. Before COVID-19, plenty of institutions were dipping a toe into online instruction, offering students occasional opportunities for an online class or experimenting with things like recorded lectures. Then the pandemic forced everyone to make remote instruction a reality.
Wonkhe
MAY 17, 2023
After media attacks on UUK's taskforce on student drug use, Sunday Blake considers what universities can do when their good work falls victim to hostile coverage The post Harm reduction is evidence-led. We need to shout about it appeared first on Wonkhe.
Higher Ed Dive
MAY 19, 2023
An American Bar Association survey last year showed law students favored distance learning classes over those in person.
Faculty Focus
MAY 14, 2023
The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently. 1 As universities continue to transition towards online education, educators commonly use asynchronous videos and synchronous video conferences as the primary modes of instruction.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 19, 2023
Rutgers University. The New School. University of Michigan. The University of California. Temple University. University of Illinois at Chicago. These are some of the schools embroiled in a wave of recent strikes in higher education in the U.S., as workers in the industry demand improvements from their institutions for their ongoing labor. Unions in higher ed may go on strike after months of bargaining and impasse in negotiations on issues and demands from higher ed employees such as wage increas
Wonkhe
MAY 15, 2023
A greater use of simulation makes investment in traditional nursing placements more, not less, important. Andrew Jones and Robert Mirante explain The post Simulation is great, but nursing students need more placements appeared first on Wonkhe.
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