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Online, Size Doesn't Matter
Adding students to sections has no impact on outcomes, according to a large national study.
Pop History
From Little House on the Prairie to comics to flappers, historians at annual meeting discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of teaching popular history.
Opinion
What About Learning?
As we debate the Obama administration's plan for rating colleges, it's worth noting that the most important thing that goes on in higher ed is missing from the framework, write Carol Geary Schneider and Daniel F. Sullivan.
Opinion
From Strength to Strength
To promote real growth by students, colleges need to stop helping them avoid everything that dismays or offends, writes Judith Shapiro.
A Flexible Future
Elite research universities, which have been leaders in exporting modular courses and resources to other colleges, are considering using them at their own campuses.
Opinion
Tweet and You'll Miss It
It's time for professors to move beyond complaining about how students are distracted by social media, writes Michelle Miller. Faculty members need to teach about why attention matters.
Teaching International Students
As international student enrollments have skyrocketed, U.S. universities are just starting to sort out the implications for the classroom. Do professors need to adjust grading expectations for written assignments?
The N-Word, in Class
Black law students at Mercer seek removal of professor who used slur repeatedly.