Dan Cohen

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood. The best books are worth reading multiple times, as we discover new elements and are affected differently each time we flip their pages. One can’t be churlish about this.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

The pleasures of reading and books have been swapped for phonics and grammar. Teaching used to be a popular career choice for literature graduates, as Carole Atherton warmly describes in her new book, Reading Lessons.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow by Steven, Bob and Jay Novella. On March 28, 2023, Bryan’s new book, Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (JHU Press), will come out. Don’t worry.

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Today's Learner

APRIL 17, 2024

Consider these assessment models and examples in your class: Virtual interview simulation: Students can use ChatGPT to simulate a conversation with a historical figure, a fictional character, or an expert in their field of study. ” Discover lessons about AI for education through science fiction books and films.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Students bent over blue books with only the light of their ideas to guide their pens.

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Today's Learner

MARCH 21, 2024

You’ll learn about the technologies that led to the development of Generative AI and discover some lessons about AI for education offered by classic and contemporary science fiction books, films and television. You can check them out at your own pace.

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ACRLog

JUNE 26, 2023

Book challenges, anti-intellectualism, and DEI higher education legislation makes me hide away from it all. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I feel like there needs to be more action in the world.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

She is the author/co-author of seven books, including the forthcoming “The SOULS of Black Faculty and Staff in the American Academy: Principles for Transformation and Retention” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). This article was published in our October 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

Anyway, it was not clear what insight into the books themselves would follow. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical. Q: You don’t historicize The Hobbit in the naïve or narrow sense of interpreting it as a fictionalized response to real-world events.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But the more I thought about The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , the more I realized that what I really wanted in the book was an English major’s perspective. Since The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a cultural artifact, my students suggested that the book requires both a good reader and a good writer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the case of fellow and fiction writer Manuel Muñoz , the award reaffirms the value of his work. “I I was eleven years between books and, at my lowest creative point, seriously thought about not writing much anymore." I am still grappling with the enormity and significance of this recognition,” Muñoz said in an email. “I

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But the more I thought about The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , the more I realized that what I really wanted in the book was an English major’s perspective. Since The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a cultural artifact, my students suggested that the book requires both a good reader and a good writer.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

He gravitated toward novels of adventure, often with science fiction or fantasy elements. She went more for books in which heroines’ tendrils are described at length. We have a frightening number of books in the house, both on display and in boxes in the basement. It’s all good. Writers are readers.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I don’t know what the books are about, necessarily, but I know what the bindings look like. TG: Yours for fiction, Dad’s for nonfiction. There weren’t many books in his house, but he had one of the more sensitive BS detectors you’ll ever find. I recognized the title from your bookshelves. Me: (chuckle).

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah, the London-born political and moral philosopher and cultural theorist, who was raised Kumasi, Ghana, and whose parents were a British children’s book author from a family that traced its ancestry to William the Conqueror, and a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from Ghana’s Ashanti region?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I started one question and skipped to the next, and the next, my blue-book pages a diary of confusion and panic. I thanked the professor, scooped up my blue book and tore out of his office into the summer wind, fixated on his choice of disciplines. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“[The media] started playing on the fact that one of his professors had written a book about BTK, who was a serial killer, not a mass killer. ” said Fox, who is also the author of Killer on Campus ( Avon Books , 1996) and Extreme Killing ( Sage , 2018). ” Stranger Than Fiction. These crimes are very different.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Partly a history and in part a sociology of English as a profession, Professing Criticism is an extraordinary book, truly a landmark work of scholarship and interpretation, without a doubt the most important intellectual and sociocultural study of a humanities field that I have encountered. If so, how does it differ from linguistics?

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Dan Cohen

MAY 5, 2021

Recliners + the scrolling text of a book on the ceiling, yes please. ). Sixty years ago, illustrator Arthur Radebaugh drew scenes from the future — that is, our present — including, quite presciently, remote education and work, self-driving cars, and an “electronic home library.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. She also is a freelance fiction writer.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours, wrote the critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in 2019, is the golden age of historical fiction. Doctorow, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie and Colson Whitehead—made their name writing historical fiction. ” In E.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Our Identities ( Basic Books ). ” Berns suggests Harris’s fictional depiction of “Roman feasts and orgies and the showering of molten ash on the inhabitants of the city” stimulated that portion of the brain. Section: Books and Publishing Editorial Tags: Books Is this diversity newsletter?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. She also is a freelance fiction writer.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. Its education should be measured by its success in producing transformational, consequential leaders.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Following that theme, it was no surprise to hear this former English major explain how reading fiction teaches him about leadership. And books teach life values and habits of people a lot unlike yourself. I can't get there, but books can help me understand. "And we've been together since," he concluded.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Many campuses, including my own, have become mired in controversy over the fate of the institution’s libraries, as microforms and even books and journals are moved to remote storage, and replaced with cafés, study lounges, high-tech classrooms, and, at UT Austin, a welcome center. These, we must solve ourselves.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Also, read science fiction. Digital content is, as Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson put it in their book, Machine, Platform, Crowd , “Free, perfect and instant.” Read research on libraries critically. Write and present. it will focus your thinking and require you to engage with the research literature.

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

I once asked him to modify a chapter of an OER book for me. He told me he couldn’t do the work unless he could see the whole book to verify that it was ethically OK to modify the content. I told him, “Claude, that book is 700 pages. Even you don’t have the attention span to read that much.”

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eLiterate

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I just finished reading Paul LeBlanc’s book Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. To be clear, this post is neither a book review nor a comprehensive exploration of Competency-Based Education (CBE), although it contains some elements of both. How to read this book.

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Mistaken Goal

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

First, I included danah boyd’s new book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens now that (a) I have read it and (b) it’s available for purchase and download (for free!). Daniel Bell’s 1973 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society is a classic example of this work.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs The Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the “amputation” of Black British literature and queer history courses at Goldsmiths University in London, as part of a cost-cutting programme in which 130 academic jobs (..)

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The reliance on traditional museum artifacts—letters, books, paintings and photographs—tended “to force historical material into certain conventional modes” of display that rendered visitors passive and unreflective. In tackling difficult issues, a museum ought not seek “single messages and unequivocal answers.”

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eLiterate

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You don’t understand Chinese, but you have an extensive rule book written in English. This book tells you exactly how to respond to Chinese characters that come through the incoming slot. Is it the book? We generally don’t say books understand anything. Is it the man/book combination?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

In 1904, he popularized a new age category in a book entitled Adolescence. Marketers subsequently identified other categories like teenyboppers and tweens, along with distinct categories of goods, like young adult fiction. Stanley Hall.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In a classic essay in Harper’s magazine , Elizabeth Hardwick described “The Decline of Book Reviewing.” ” Hardwick, a leading literary critic, novelist and short story writer, took it for granted in 1959 that the fate of authors and publishers depended on book reviews.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

Even a game that is largely fictional or fantasy-driven can nonetheless provide students with a chance to discuss what makes the game misleading and historically mistaken and the difference between historical authenticity and artful and deceitful reconstructions.

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