When you think of higher education institutions outside the United States, what comes to mind? If you’re from the U.S. yourself, you might have some assumptions worth questioning. Higher ed, like nearly every contemporary human endeavor, is globalizing. Lots of…
Category: Higher Education
From assessment cop to assessment advocate: On the prevention and treatment of data rage
Posted in Academic Life, and Higher Education
As more institutions sink more money into myriad student success programs, the appetite for data documenting the impacts of those programs grows and grows.
Addiction, accommodation, and better solutions to the laptop problem
Posted in Higher Education, and Technology
It started with the wonderful realization that I could bring a book with me everywhere.
Much of the pontificating about costs in higher education claims that it’s become fundamentally unsustainable. There’s the famous likening of teaching in higher education to live string quartet performance – something that can’t be compressed for efficiency, done by fewer…
We talk a lot about making teaching and learning easier. What happens when it’s harder?
Posted in Academic Life, and Higher Education
One of the more useful concepts to come along from the literature on cognition and learning is this: desirable difficulty.