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Monthly Archives: March 2016
How Can the College Application Process Be Improved? | MindShift | KQED News
To help fix the hyper competitive college application process, a coalition of universities is trying to develop a more equitable process.
Source: How Can the College Application Process Be Improved? | MindShift | KQED News
Exploring Virtual Reality in Education – DML Central
When looking at the state of digital media and learning today, virtual reality (VR) is barely a blip in many of the broader conversations. Much of the work being done focuses on peer-to-peer learning and practices of social pedagogy, which are in many ways, the opposite of the current state of VR. About 20 years ago, VR in education had something of a research heyday. A search on Google scholar turns up thousands of results between 1991-1999. While the research never slowed, the technology never became accessible enough for virtual reality to become mainstream.That is changing
Source: Exploring Virtual Reality in Education – DML Central
Reading as a Social Act – DML Central
It’s commonly acknowledged that writing is a social act. What does it mean to write online? When we write in the digital age, we are writing to share and to connect. But, what about the act of reading? I open this reflection by quoting myself from a prior DML post: These days, the role of the reader is much like the role of the learner (in a 21st century digitized context). I see a kind of inherent transformation in both of these roles. Reading used to be a more solitary act, bound to a private and
Punting on Higher-Ed Reform; or, Austerity is For Other People | The Tattooed Professor
In the pre-Civil War United States, there was a burgeoning literature and rhetoric that sang the praises of chattel slavery with increasing gusto in response to the abolitionist critique that also …
Source: Punting on Higher-Ed Reform; or, Austerity is For Other People | The Tattooed Professor
University Press Redux: Preserving Heritage, Charting The Future | The Scholarly Kitchen
University presses are enjoying something of a renaissance in the UK, as was evident at the recent University Press Redux conference in Liverpool. Why is this, and how are presses trying to reconci…
Source: University Press Redux: Preserving Heritage, Charting The Future | The Scholarly Kitchen
A Wave of Sexual-Assault Cases Kindles Anger on Baylor’s Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Incidents involving the Baptist university’s powerhouse football team have unsettled many students. Now the administration is taking action on a problem that activists say runs deeper than sports.
Source: A Wave of Sexual-Assault Cases Kindles Anger on Baylor’s Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Diversifying a Discipline – The Chronicle of Higher Education
What one cohort of black female Ph.D.s in philosophy says about the challenges facing academe as it tries to be more inclusive.
Source: Diversifying a Discipline – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Once a Small-College Champion, Now a Tough Critic – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Alice Brown spent more than two decades championing small liberal-arts institutions. Today she argues that some of them should close.
Source: Once a Small-College Champion, Now a Tough Critic – The Chronicle of Higher Education
