May 2013
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“Many new open-access publishers are trustworthy. But not all. Anyone with a...”
– Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing : Nature News & Comment
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“Non-completion is only a problem if we accept MOOCs as alternative...”
– Not A Hand Up | Inside Higher Ed
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“Before the campaign, Ghani said that he found it difficult to use his data...”
– What the Obama Campaign’s Chief Data Scientist Is Up to Now - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
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Congress is close to making unlocking cell phones... →
Join the campaign asking Congress to fix the DMCA and make unlocking, jailbreaking, and modifying devices permanently legal.
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“Before 1992 most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and...”
– Ferris Jabr. The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American
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“Affluent students today learn to read for nuance in expensive private schools,...”
– Monica Cohen, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 17, 2013.
Of course the rest of the piece is about why it does matter - not to these students but to others who cannot hope to compete in a world that chooses not to poke at the thin veneer of “fairness” that these gatekeeper tests...
February 2013
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“In late 2011 the Stanford Social Innovation Review published a paper on...”
– Via Snippets from the State Librarian - A brief pause in our history lesson
January 2013
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Divided Conversations: Identities, Leadership, and... →
“Through their interviews with faculty and administrators (from department chairs and deans to provosts and presidents) from a sample of eight public universities in the Northeast and their own experiences in both worlds, the authors provide a unique window into the life experiences and identities of those who struggle to make universities work. The book examines the culture of academic...
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Will University of Phoenix lose accreditation?
The company is also expecting to receive a draft report from its accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, said Gregory Cappelli, Apollo’s Chief Executive Officer, during a conference call with analysts and investors. He said the company believes it will be placed on notice, which would require follow-up reports and action.
Whoa. In my world, that’s stop-the-presses news. (Okay, I’m old. What’s...
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Coursera's fee-based course option | Inside Higher... →
“I never thought about the revenue part of it,” said Peter Lange, provost of Duke University, which will be participating in the pilot program for fee-based courses. Duke’s goal for participating is about the global classroom, he said. “All these MOOCs allow our faculty to extend their reach.”
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“In a move that Maria Maisto, president of the New Faculty Majority, called “A...”
– AHA Today: Adjuncts Find an Ally in an Unlikely Source: The IRS
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“Get Involved
We would like, in the light of the current situation, to extend...”
– PLOHSS - A PLOS-style project for HSS
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Twitter / ianmilligan1: A student popped in to... →
A student popped in to point out the “AskHistorians” subreddit. It seems we think a lot about wikipedia, but not this? reddit.com/r/AskHistorians
— Ian Milligan (@ianmilligan1) January 9, 2013
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December 2012
18 posts
Catherine Pellegrino, "Some new things I tried... →
stephenfrancoeur:
Pull quote: “One thing I did learn from one of the two classes, though, is that of the students who clearly ‘got it,’ nearly all of them wound up citing journal articles from databases in their bibliographies. We talk about finding journal articles in the class session, but it gets a really quick, slapdash approach, and we spend a lot more time on other issues. Seeing how many...
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“In this context, free access is not enough. To maximize the value of the public...”
– Science publishing: Open access must enable open use : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
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“Training wheels externalize the hardest part of riding a bike. If you’re a...”
– » Intrusive Scaffolding, Obstructed Learning (and MOOCs) SAMPLE REALITY
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“Three pointers, shmee pointers. Two point basket, shmasket. The one point free...”
– Student tip: Be more like Marple & Nash | Thirty-Seven
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“I have an opinion, and that is that the old model of the travel guide is passe,...”
– The Internet has changed what a travel guide should be | Neuropolarbear
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“(As a humanities and literature person here, I can’t help but remark that the...”
– Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012: The Flipped Classroom | Inside Higher Ed
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“A study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE confirms that women in a series of...”
– Study suggests resource inequities may impact publishing records of women in science | Inside Higher Ed
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Watch(via CNET Australia - Shortcuts: typing like a pro on the iPad - Tablets)
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““I have a share in a Thing-O-Matic 3D printer and my children wanted to...”
– (via cNet Australia - Enter the world of Printcraft - Games: PC, DS, PlayStation, Xbox & Wii)
Paul Harter
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New Ithaka S+R report - research practices of...
Among the recommendations:
Libraries and archives need to develop “new research support models that address historians’ related needs for expertise at a sub-disciplinary level and for assistance in discovering and accessing primary source materials.”
For history departments to develop more graduate courses “in how to develop a dissertation proposal recognizing resource constraints, in the...
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“Students from wealthier backgrounds generally have an expansive view of college...”
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Dr. Jenny Stuber, University of North Florida – Socioeconomics and the College Experience | WAMC
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Badges for Vets →
“The extensive project, which includes badges representing training in more than 1,000 military jobs, is also a particularly promising foray into digital badging — a much-hyped, although still nascent, form of alternative credentialing that could conceivably undermine higher education’s role as a primary way of signaling skills to employers.”
(via Inside Higher Ed)
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“Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin on Tuesday suggested he would not donate his papers to Iowa...”
– Register Exclusive: Harkin, Iowa State disagree on namesake public policy institute | The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregister.com
(via Inside Higher Ed)
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“I suspect that if you agree with Clay Shirky that teaching is analogous to...”
– Essay critiques the ideas of Clay Shirky and others advocating higher ed disruption | Inside Higher Ed
(Responding to “Napster, Udacity and the Academy,” Clay Shirky)
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“A new study finds that a majority students with low incomes but high academic...”
– Study says many highly talented low-income students never apply to top colleges | Inside Higher Ed
The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students. (NBER Working Paper #18586)
September 2012
2 posts
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“The AHA strongly recommends that departments publish information regarding...”
– Best Practices on Transparency in Placement Records (The American Historical Association)
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“For many of us who have campaigned for the right to access and reuse government...”
– Open data movement: how to keep information from being politicized. - Slate Magazine
August 2012
13 posts
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“Apparently suspicions were aroused by the 24h return of reviews- an obvious sign...”
– On not using the suggested reviewers | DrugMonkey
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Study examines contradictions that define today's... →
“The book, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today’s College Student (Jossey Bass), uses surveys of students and college officials, interviews from campus visits, and other data to characterize the current crop of college-age Americans as confounded by a series of contradictions”
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A MOOC Without an Instructor →
“The course will combine existing materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCoureware project, quizzes from Codeacademy and study groups from Open Study, and will be coordinated by Peer 2 Peer University. With those services, organizers said, an instructor (while central to other MOOC offerings) won’t be necessary.”
via IHE, from the NYT
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Strapping our students →
“So it strikes me that perhaps the most important thing I can do on Greenback’s campus is to establish a student-run repair shop. Create an expectation that students can fix broken stuff, and an environment in which they’re encouraged to try to do it. Provide an opportunity for students to get their hands dirty, learn the internal logic of simple systems and mechanisms, gain a...
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Report on employment of college grads is public... →
Thus this report [The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm] is about promoting a mission, a policy position, not about achieving a dispassionate, objective and complete analysis of the evidence. It is thus better viewed as a piece of PR, agitprop musings as it were, not a serious academic study. Certainly, we doubt any peer-reviewed reputable academic journal in economics would touch...
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Pa.'s public universities open doors to prior... →
“The [Pennsylvania State] system [of Higher Education] already does prior learning assessment, but plans to expand through a new partnership with the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL). System officials expect students will seek and receive credits for learning on the job, from technical training programs, in the military or from other sources, including massive open online...
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Digital Faculty: Professors and Technology, 2012 |... →
“The faculty members’ net-positive outlook on several tech-related pedagogical trends suggests that student performance feedback loops and “flipping the classroom” are durable enough to outlast their current buzz.
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In general, professors are pro-digital. A decisive majority, 71 percent, said the prospect of “libraries focusing on digital instead of print collections” makes them...
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Kelly and Schneider on the completion agenda |... →
The growth in middle-skill jobs, particularly in fields like healthcare and information technology, means that we are going to need more workers with sub-baccalaureate credentials.
The book highlights two particular approaches to boosting sub-baccalaureate productivity. First, several states have invested in one or two-year occupational certificate programs that have shown promising results.
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Students Crying in My Office: Our Future Elite →
“So many of my students have been protected from adversity for so long that they quite literally do not know how to deal with it, which is why they may melt down over an 87. Often, they have little sense of why they’re even in college, what it’s for in general, and what they want out of it in specific, so the only thing they know to value is the most recent number on the grade scoreboard.
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Mathematical Illiteracy in the NYT | Good Math,... →
“Of course, the jackass goes on to talk about how we should offer courses in things like statistics instead of algebra. How on earth are you going to explain bell curves, standard deviations, margins of error, etc., without using any algebra? The guy is so totally clueless that he doesn’t even understand when he’s using it.”
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Increase in Research Involving Multiple... →
“The proportion of academic research involving more than one institution is going up, according to an analysis by the National Science Foundation.”
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A new analysis of spending by liberal arts... →
“The issue isn’t that faculty members at Platinum aren’t working, she said. It’s that elite liberal arts colleges have steadily ratcheted up research expectations, so that those on a 2-2 course load are pushed to publish more or win more grants. Lapovsky said that while there are no doubt valuable contributions being made by some of this research, it is not of the type that...
July 2012
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Introduction to Reading the Medical Literature:... →
“But first, I’m going to back up and talk a little bit about how we interpret any paper on a therapeutic intervention. We need to ask ourselves three basic questions. Is the study valid? What are the results? How is the study applicable beyond the study itself?”
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Entextualized Humor in the Formation of Scientist... →
Studies of the socialization of novices into scientific cultures typically emphasize official knowledge-making activities. However, scientific socialization is also accomplished informally through humor. As entextualized humor, formulaic jokes enable U.S. undergraduate students in science to claim scientist identities both through a displayed orientation to scientific knowledge and through the...
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Anthrosource - Abstract Details →
Building on recent linguistic-anthropological work that investigates the temporalities of educational processes, the article examines how a marginalized classroom identity is interactionally formed over time in an undergraduate chemistry laboratory. The analysis demonstrates how social marginalization is enacted along multiple temporal scales via stance taking, participation frameworks, and...
