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Instructional Design Teams: Beyond the Numbers
Institutions are embracing instructional design as online courses and programs proliferate. Designers hope they'll soon be viewed as part of the academic landscape, rather than merely as tech support.
Newly Tenured … at Bucknell, Prairie State, Tennessee Tech
Bucknell University Marcellus Andrews, economics Michelle Oswald Beiler, civil and environmental engineering Paul Botelho, music Claire Campbell, history Kevin Gilmore...
OER and Affordable-Textbook Labeling Gains Ground
Institutions in several states are now required to label courses with OER and affordable materials. Proponents cheer the move toward transparency, though some challenges remain.
Cengage Unveils 'All-You-Can-Read' Approach to Digital Materials
Cengage, one of the major publishers of textbooks and instructional materials, announced this week that it would begin a subscription...
$250 Million Gift for Columbia Medical School
Columbia University's medical school is announcing a $250 million gift, The New York Times reported. The medical school plans to...
Student Speech Rights
What speech rights do students have while on campus? In today's Academic Minute, part of Whitworth University Week, Erica Salkin...
A Cengage Buffet
In a shift away from traditional publishing models, Cengage introduces an all-you-can-read subscription offer for digital course materials.
‘Fraud and Misconduct in Research’
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.