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News: Liberal Arts in Jeopardy? - Inside Higher Ed
As colleges across the country continue to cinch their belts, both administrators and students have been forced to decide which sorts of programs are good investments and which are now unaffordable luxuries. And with students sweating a cutthroat job market that favors specific skills, many in higher education have been left wonder how the recession stands to affect the liberal arts.
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“an education for wisdom and virtue”
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We need to make clear to others … that such an education is the best preparation for knowledge, critical thinking, communication skills, adaptability — not specific technical skills, but habits of mind.”
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New Survey Finds Colleges Moving Away From Pure "Cafeteria-Style" General Education Requirements
New Survey Finds Colleges Moving Away From Pure "Cafeteria-Style" General Education Requirements, with only 15 Percent Now Using Distribution Requirements Alone
Two-thirds of Colleges Are Incorporating More Engaged and Integrative Learning Practices Into General Education Programs
News: Assessing the Assessments
On Tuesday, the groups released a federally funded analysis of a "test validity study" conducted by the makers of the three tests showing that the three tests produced comparable outcomes at the institutional level, based on having been administered at a diverse range of 13 institutions, big and small, public and private. - Inside Higher Ed
News: Tweeting in Class
Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it? - Inside Higher Ed
Nurturing critical minds
Lecturers must do more than lecture, argues Mary Malcolm: they must develop students' intellectual-inquiry skills
ETS: Resources for Higher Education
As former higher education administrators, faculty members and researchers, we at nonprofit ETS understand your need to continually do more with less. We've developed a full range of valid and reliable academic assessments and higher education services to help you make the best use of your time and resources. Our research-based products are easy to use and provide decision-critical and comparative data that can contribute to the success of your students and your institution.
99 Awesome Firefox Add-ons for Educators - Online Courses
They say today’s educators are overworked and underpaid. Luckily, the web offers tools to make your professional life more manageable and less stressful. These add-ons might not change your salary, but we’re sure they’ll ease your workload.
Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources
Although, according to Gartner's Hype Cycle, Twitter is about to enter the "Trough of Disillusionment", many educators are still trying to come to grips with it, and in particular its use in the classroom. Here are 10 resources that specifically look at the educational use of Twitter:
101 Ways to Use Twitter on Campus | Online Colleges
Twitter is known as a great networking and self-promotion tool, but it’s also a useful service for your campus community. Teachers, administrators and students can all use Twitter for study help, group projects, catching up on news around the world and on campus, public relations and recruitment, library announcements, and a lot more. Here are 100 ways to use Twitter on campus.
A Better Pencil
In this electronic age, new writing technologies seem to proliferate and evolve with alarming speed -- but of course, people have been coming up with new ways to communicate their thoughts for as long as language has existed at all. Writing itself -- writes Dennis Baron -- was once the object of much suspicion; Plato wrote that it could attenuate human memory, since writing things down would obviate the need to memorize them. In his new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution (Oxford University Press), Baron looks at the history of writing implements and communication technologies, and explores the digital revolution's impact on how we write, how we learn, and how we connect with one another. - Inside Higher Ed
Will ‘Rubi the Robot’ Be the Ultimate Teacher’s Aide?: Machine Learning and the Transformation of Education
The Dana Foundation - Q&A with TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, Ph.D.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
Facebook encourages narcissistic blabbering, video and PowerPoint have replaced carefully crafted essays, and texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad shorthand" (as University College of London English professor John Sutherland has moaned). An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
The World Is Open
Technology is changing higher education in more ways than can be counted. Distance education has become common. Leading universities are putting course materials or even entire courses online -- free. The Obama plan for community colleges envisions free online courses that could be used nationwide. Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University, surveys this landscape in The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (Jossey-Bass). - Inside Higher Ed
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