NYTimes: Bias Persists for Women of Science, a Study Finds http://nyti.ms/UMhu0c

College Orientation

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2729

How Will Participating Universities Make $ From Offering Free Web Courses on Coursera?

http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-will-participating-universities.html

Still, that brainstorm list has some surprises, including the idea of selling course content from universities to companies to use for internal training.

Arithmetic for Beginners

http://abstrusegoose.com/474

Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams

"An indication of this widespread nonlearning is the perennial befuddlement of faculty members who can't seem to understand why students don't know this or that, even though it was "covered" in a prior or prerequisite course. The reason they don't know it is because they did not learn it. Covering content is not the same as learning it."


http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Telling-Students-to-Study/131622/

NYTimes: What You (Really) Need to Know

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/education/edlife/the-21st-century-education.html

1. Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.
2. Tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.
3. faculty members would be freed up and materials would be improved, as competition drove up textbook/e-book quality
4. “Active learning classrooms” — which cluster students at tables, with furniture that can be rearranged and integrated technology.
5. The educational experience breed cosmopolitanism — that students have international experiences
6. Courses of study will place much more emphasis on the analysis of data

NYRB: Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/our-universities-why-are-they-failing/

also:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/what-is-college-for/