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Learning Why, Not How
Citing your sources matters, but teaching citation just muddies the waters for first-year students.
How Higher Ed Is and Is Not Changing
It’s time to reframe the question: Why is it so hard to innovate within higher education?
August Homework for College Leaders
Presidents, board chairs and other trustees should spend time now thinking about how best to prepare for potential crises that may arise in the fast-approaching new academic year, Margaret Dunning advises.
Defending Science Through Its Values
The myth that science should rely on proof or certainty is a view so harmful to scientific understanding that it only gives aid and comfort to climate-change deniers and others who attack it, argues Lee McIntyre.
Handy Bookstore Tips
The ISBN number is your friend, and other advice for students.
Unpacking 2U's New $24K Online Undergrad Degree
7 thoughts on the University of London’s new online undergraduate degree in data science and business analytics.
The Self-Aware Leader
Effective leadership is rooted in understanding the leader you currently are as well as the leader you need to become for your unit to thrive, write Elizabeth A. Luckman, Nicholas C. Burbules, C. K. Gunsalus and Robert A. Easter.
The End of Note Taking?
Digital transcribing tools just might free students up to do more beneficial things with their time in class, write Perry Samson and Fred Singer.