Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Annabel Kiernan and Vanessa Dodd call for coherence between lifelong learning plans and other aspects of higher education policy The post Government priorities are everything, everywhere, all at once appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

For David Latchman, the issues with the short course pilot are down to bad design, not a lack of interest in lifelong learning The post How could we test the attractiveness of the lifelong loan entitlement? appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America by Philip Bump Published in January 2023 Why are so many conversations about the future of higher education so pessimistic? Together, we could list many reasons to worry about the future of higher education. We might mention public disinvestment, student debt and stubbornly low graduation rates.

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Wonkhe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

David Kernohan looks at the Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill and asks - where's the policy? The post A skeleton bill is no way to determine funding policy appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By HANK KALET There has been a strike wave across academia that is altering the landscape for those of us who teach and work in higher education — and Rutgers is poised to join the party.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on how Harvard and the University of North Carolina use race in college admissions is expected by early June. Informed expectations are that the high court will find against the two universities and rule that race cannot be considered as a factor in admissions. The use of race or other ascriptive characteristics in college admissions (and in many other situations in American society) has a long history.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction – a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences, and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction – voice, style, language, imagery, narrative, and more. Personal essays written with grace and literary flair aren’t, of course, new.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The battle for AI supremacy is on. We've been talking to robots in our homes, cars and offices for a while now — Alexa and Siri could write scathing tell-alls about most of us — but over the last few months, the stakes have skyrocketed. Google and Microsoft are among the companies to recently announce their multibillion-dollar chatbots. It follows OpenAI's headline-grabbing ChatGPT that launched in November.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

On 27 February 2023, students at the University of Oxford begin a referendum on whether their Students’ Union should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS). Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director writing in a personal capacity, considers the pros and cons of Oxit. Over 30 years ago, I helped run an NUS disaffiliation campaign at the University of Manchester.

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