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The Ostrich and the Trend
A recent blog post was wrong about massive open online courses, Arshad Ahmad and Barbara Oakley write. MOOCs aren't the promised panacea, but they are neither dangerous nor dead.
Why Some Stay
Redefining the non-mobile academic (faculty and non-faculty) career.
Organizing Your Literature: Spreadsheet Style
Strategies for using nested spreadsheets to organize your lit review.
“I chose abuse, because it seemed safer."
A report from the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity of students.
The Creative Academic
Academe’s standardized processes can strip our work of personal meaning, writes Janelle Ward, who recommends how to approach teaching and research in new ways.
The Students the Lists Leave Out
The emphasis on the uniqueness of each incoming class in annual lists of student worldviews perpetuates the assumption that the college population is mainly composed of recent high school graduates, writes Hollis Phelps.
Openness and the Decline of the Textbook Author
The emerging model of openly licensed educational content makes pedagogical as well as financial sense for today’s higher education market, fostering inclusivity and knocking down the wall between writer and reader, writes Brian Jacobs.