Archive for 'Higher Education'
Just Around the Corner
It’s the middle of August, which means that the Fall semester is coming up fast. Posts about beginning the new academic year on the right foot are starting to pop up all over the higher ed blogosphere. Here’s a couple that have caught my eye recently:
1. Earlier this month Tenured Radical* encouraged us to “conjure–for [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 18th, 2010 under Faculty, Higher Education, Just Thinking.
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Chance To Influence Next Generation Higher Education Administrators
I was intrigued by this new initiative created by the folks at Inside Higher Ed and the Association for the Study of Higher Education. It allows anyone to submit a 1,000 word, well-researched and documented essay on any news story published by Inside Higher Ed. While some essays must be based on a set of [...]
Posted by StevenB on December 15th, 2009 under Higher Education, Top Issues.
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Impact Factors Adjusted for Reality
An interesting study forthcoming in the September issue of C&RL tackles the question of how our scholarship is evaluated by tenure and promotion committees. As a tenured librarian in a department in which half of the faculty are currently working toward tenure, this question intrigues me. Fortunately, my non-librarian colleagues at my institution do not [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 7th, 2009 under Higher Education, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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For the Hacker in You
Last week was the official launch of Prof Hacker, a new website devoted to productivity, technology, and pedagogy in higher education. A link to this group blog first popped up in my Twitterstream a couple of months ago and I immediately became a regular reader. While the main audience for Prof Hacker is college and [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 13th, 2009 under Higher Education, Teaching, Technology Issues.
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We Have To Add The Value
You may have watched the video of the Dean who explained his rationale for removing computers from the classrooms at his school. His primary concern was that faculty would simply show PowerPoint slides and deliver boring lectures to accompany them. While I don’t entirely agree with his perspectives on the merits of teaching “naked”, [...]
Posted by StevenB on July 28th, 2009 under Higher Education, Teaching.
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