Watch Online Conversation on ‘Reimagining Schools’
The second event of the Reimagining series, Reimagining Social Institutions, takes place on December 17 at noon ET. You can register for the event HERE. Given the turmoil that 2020 has brought to the...
View ArticleWatch the Forum: Understanding Diversity in STEM
While strides have been made for women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in seeking careers in science and engineering, as a recent report from the National Center for Science and Engineering...
View ArticleSurvey Explores How College Students Feel About Using AI To Complete Coursework
(Photo: Vicki Hamilton/Pixabay) Artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model could make completing college coursework as simple as asking a computer questions and getting answers...
View ArticleJohn Hattie on the Factors That Influence Learning In Schools
(Photo: WOKANDAPIX/Pixabay) In 2008, I published my book Visible Learning, which aimed to explain what works best to help student learning. At the time, others claimed it was the world’s largest...
View ArticleIs Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?
(Photo: Fawaz Tairou/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons) What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic, followed by another topic and...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship for a Cause
Magnus Hoppe and Kamran Namdar reflect on their article, “Towards Entrepreneurship for a Cause: Educating Transformative Entrepreneurial Selves for a Better World,” which was recently published in...
View ArticleThe Social Sciences Are Under Attack in Higher Education
The social sciences have been a consistent target for political operatives around the United States in recent years. The proposed downsizing of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) by...
View ArticleWhen University Decolonization in Canada Mends Relationships with Indigenous...
The move in Canadian academia to “decolonize” or “Indigenize,” and commit to broader frameworks of reconciliation, pertains to how work is done within universities, as well as how universities engage...
View ArticleTejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict
Consider some of the conflicts bubbling or boiling in the world today, and then plot where education – both schooling and less formal means of learning – fits in. Is it a victim, suffering from the...
View ArticleAddressing the United Kingdom’s Lack of Black Scholars
In the UK, out of 164 university vice-chancellors, only two are Black. Professor David Mba was recently appointed as the first Black vice-chancellor at Birmingham City University. There are 165 Black...
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