Higher Education

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• Higher Education Bubble Post Sparks Reactions and Affirmations

  
  Kapp Notes — Authority: 513
  Image from the website Texas Higher Ed a  project from the  Texas Public Policy Foundation My post The Higher Education Bubble Continues to Grow sparked a number of interactions and posts. First,  Daniel Christian  pointed me to his interesting and thought provoking post titled  The ...
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• Taking education online

  
  RodeWorks — Authority: 127
  Designing websites for learners Most websites are not learner-friendly. Web creators might aim for beautiful, accessible, usable interfaces to house their smart, web-native content, but they don’t often have learners’ goals or needs in mind—if they even know what those needs are. Educational Video Games ...
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• Google Wave makes the conference rounds

  
  RodeWorks — Authority: 127
  The Google Wave team makes some conference visits, aiming at corporations at Enterprise 2.0 and the educational market at Educause . Google seems to have created a cool tool, and is now trying to figure out what it is good for.  It will be interesting to see if it changes much as it comes out in a more general ...
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• Do Co-Curricular Activities Help You Get Into College?

  
  Spray Paint Car Blog — Authority: 152
  The single most important thing that colleges consider when looking at your application package are your grades. If you have a proven track record of being a strong student, then they will look at what else you have to offer their university. That’s when a look at your extra-curricular activities factor into their ...
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• Nearly Wordless Wednesday: Howard University Women’s Lacrosse

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 114
  Black on Campus trivia: Howard University women’s lacrosse team is the first and only such team to be fielded by a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). To learn more about Howard Women’s Lax and it’s outstanding women athletes, follow THIS LINK and cheer them on during their upcoming spring 2010 ...
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• Columbia Professor Arrested for Assault on Female Colleague

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 114
  “It was a very unfortunate event. I didn’t mean for it to explode the way it did.” – Columbia University Professor Lionel MacIntyre on his physical altercation with female college Margaret Camille Davis Lionel McIntyre *** Lionel McIntyre, the Nancy and George Rupp Associate Professor in the Practice of ...
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• The MBA: Vehicle Of Infection

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In the American model, capitalism is an essential engine that equally supports societal needs and private interest. There is an implied capitalist compact that defines a balance between public interest and private interest that is consistent with the success and long term survival of both personal and public needs and ...
  11 hours ago

• Gambling Your Education

  
  Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept — Authority: 422
  I’m sure you’ve all heard it before. Lebanon boosts the best universities in the Middle East … blah, blah, and so on. Well, I think our selection of higher education has just got better when I found this in my Inbox this morning: Poker Classes: Game Theory Lebanon In the event you need to sharpen your ...
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• Best Community Colleges in New York State

  
  EduBook — Authority: 498
  Not everyone can afford the exorbitant tuition that is associated with private universities. If you are struggling financially, unsure about what career to pursue, or just want to fortify your GPA before applying to that selective “dream school”, then community college could be a wise investment. However, if ...
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• The Intersection of Educational Use and Fair Use

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Ahrash Bissell has a new post on how much educational use actually constitutes fair use under the law. Bissell argues that the definition of use is too vague to be useful in guiding practice. From the post: I suspect that many people who espouse this desire for universal “educational fair-use rights” are basing ...
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• Success and Challenges in OER

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Heather R. Pena has published a paper on successes and challenges in in adopting and developing OER. From the article: Many leading institutions in higher education adopted the OER platform and face many challenges in this modern day world including: the rapid growth of technology, globalism, licensing, economic, ...
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• Open Education in South Africa

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 437
  Michael Adeyeye has posted video of a presentation on open education in South Africa.
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• Are We Sending Too Many Students to College?

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 126
  The Chronicle of Higher Education staged an interesting online debate in the Chronicle Review . With student debt rising and more of those enrolled failing to graduate in four years, there is a growing sentiment that college may not be the best option for all students. At the same time, President Obama has called ...
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• How many years for a degree?

  
  University Blog — Authority: 473
  When I last lived in Germany, in the early 1970s (yes, I am that old!), I knew a man who was a student in a southern German university. I could never work out what he was studying, because when I asked him his answers were always very vague. But I did know how long he had been studying, at that time: 12 years and ...
  14 hours ago

• Students will name and shame MPs who refuse to oppose rise in tuition fees

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Student leaders of more than 85 higher education institutions say politicians are conspiring to stop a rise in fees becoming an election issue Student leaders have promised to name and shame every MP who refuses to sign a pledge to oppose a rise in university tuition fees, the Guardian has learned. In a letter to ...
  16 hours ago

• Columbia Professor Charged With Punching University Employee

  
  City Room — Authority: 802
  The confrontation occurred Friday at a popular bar and restaurant near campus.
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• Holy Land or Professional Purgatory?

  
  Most Recent Posts — Authority: 605
  By Abbey Greenberg Onn Today at work, someone peed their pants. No, I am not being idiomatic - nor am I am being funny. I work somewhere where someone literally peed their pants. This would have been quite a tale to tell had it been at my last job, a large non-profit in Washington, D.C. As I am currently living a few ...
  19 hours ago

• Bullet points

  
  Midwest Voices - — Authority: 672
  By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel People who use bullets to express beliefs feed those who write. The material seems endless lately and journalists have more material than they can handle and comprehend. read more
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• Who established our institutions of higher learning and why

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 445
  Interesting introduction in the book by James Anderson Hawes, Twenty Years Among The Twenty Year Olds A Story Of Our Colleges Of Today , (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929) which attempted to explain to students of 80 years ago how much better off they were than those who had come before them. He probably wrote it before ...
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• Undocumented students mobilize to win legal status

  
  HispanicTips — Authority: 455
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