NYTimes: Bias Persists for Women of Science, a Study Finds http://nyti.ms/UMhu0c
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
How Will Participating Universities Make $ From Offering Free Web Courses on Coursera?
Still, that brainstorm list has
some surprises, including the idea of selling course content from
universities to companies to use for internal training.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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/
http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Telling-Students-to-Study/131622/
Monday, January 30, 2012
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
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
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
NPR: Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool
"The classes only seem to be really working for about 10 percent of the students," Arizona State's Hestenes says. "And I maintain, I think all the evidence indicates, that these 10 percent are the students that would learn it even without the instructor. They essentially learn it on their own."
"The classes only seem to be really working for about 10 percent of the students," Arizona State's Hestenes says. "And I maintain, I think all the evidence indicates, that these 10 percent are the students that would learn it even without the instructor. They essentially learn it on their own."
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