from AAC&U News… Mapping a Path from Curriculum to Career: The Lynk Initiative at Mount Holyoke College With the value of college increasingly being questioned
Learning App for Teaching Language
My Duolingo learning app can reshape education 19 May 2014 by Aviva Rutkin Luis von Ahn, creator of a popular language-learning app, says tracking how people
There’s More to Life than "Critical" Thinking?
I’ve often disagreed with Michael Roth’s take on liberal education, but I think he’s hit a nail on the head here. He lumps “critical thinking”
Research on Effectiveness (sic) of Lecturing
A paper (pdf below) published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports a meta-analysis of some 250 studies of effectiveness of lecturing
New Browser Tool Lets You Copy Text from Images
Project Naptha is a new plug-in for the Chrome browser that lets you do text recognition (OCR) of online images (e.g., photos of documents) and
Higher Ed: The Times, They Are A-Changin’
Increasing segmentation of potential student market, lots of new entrants (education providers), new demand for “just in time” learning, aggregators as brokers between providers and
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