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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! 2010; Bransford et al., Significance.

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Innovative and Engaging Communications in and Beyond the Academy

GlobalHigherEd

Senior Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly reinterpreting fragile and easily forgotten knowledge. Research : the importance of ICTs for asking and answering questions.

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How to Improve Teaching Quality and Effectiveness

Inside Higher Ed

Indeed, at the more selective, better resourced institutions, academic freedom and tenure also imply the right to teach whatever one wants, when one wants. Too many have no particular knowledge of or interest in the science of learning. Too many have no particular knowledge of or interest in the science of learning.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Although inherently different, every higher ed institution can learn from the innovative best practices RSIs have been forced to adopt to help positively impact their enrollment and more. Meanwhile, political appointees only view their schools as political tools. colleges and universities. How board members should be appointed.