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Experimenting With Teaching to Improve Student Learning: Part I
Colleges should constantly encourage faculty members to try new approaches and gather data to see if they’re making tangible changes, write Richard J. Light and Allison Jegla.
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GAO Report on Online Program Managers Was Only a Start
Congress’s investigative arm accurately diagnosed the problem outside providers play in driving online tuitions higher, but the government needs to act more aggressively, John Katzman argues.
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Flag, Freedom, DEI and Faculty Performance: A Fable
A fictional tale by Mark Edmundson explores the “ethical commitments” professors are and are not being invited to make.
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Communicating the Realities of Higher Ed in 2022
This is a challenging time to lead, as a provost, dean, director or department chair at a college or university. That is not to say that there are not successes and rewards to be achieved, but they come harder than in decades past.
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3 Questions on OPM Research for 2U’s David Sutphen
Pros, cons and possible paths toward independent and data-driven research on nonprofit/for-profit partnerships in the online learning space.
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Eliminating Alibis
Eliza C. Bettinger describes how diversifying an applicant pool starts with writing a better job ad.