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How Conducting a Mixed-mode Class is Similar to Hosting a Late-night Talk Show

Faculty Focus

Faculty are increasingly called on to conduct “mixed-mode” classes, sometimes called hybrid or HyFlex classes. These sessions are conducted with some students in-person and others using Zoom or other conferencing tools to view and participate at a distance. Mixed-mode classes present new challenges for faculty who are used to teaching an in-person or online class, where all the students are using one mode of access.

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About That N.Y.U. Organic Chem Course

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Just Visiting It seems life all of higher ed Twitter has been discussing the story of Maitlin Jones Jr., adjunct professor of organic chemistry, who was not retained by N.Y.U. following the signing of a petition by 82 out of 350 students in the class who believed they were not being given the support necessary to learn. Organic chemistry is a necessary pre-requisite for medical school, and often serves as a high-stakes, weed-out course for students walking that path.

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Howard U, National Education Equity Lab Expand Access to College-Level Algebra for Underserved High School Students

Campus Technology

Howard University and the nonprofit National Education Equity Lab have announced they are expanding a program that allows high school students in historically underserved communities to take college Algebra in their high school classrooms and earn college credit at no cost.

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AI/ML in EdTech: An Incomplete Inventory

eLiterate

My recent post on the challenges of using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in EdTech received various responses. Both some positive and some negative responses gave me the sense that focusing on the one rather extreme example of an open-ended chatbot suggested to some readers that I was arguing that all AI/ML is equally fraught, whether they agreed or disagreed with that proposition.

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Did Boston’s Simmons University concoct scheme to oust controversial professor? It sure looks that way.

FIRE

Statistics professor David Kane was ultimately non-renewed after student protests about pseudonymous online posts that were attributed to him.

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From the archive: Why we should bulldoze the business school – podcast

The Guardian - Higher Education

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years Continue reading.

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The Problem With University Rankings

The Higher Ed Marketer

University rankings play a big part in where a prospective student chooses to go to school, but most rankings focus on prestige and what other peers of institutions think of each other rather than the influence the university is making on the students and alumni. . Dr. Jed Macosko is the President and Research Director at Academicinfluence.com and a professor of Physics at Wake Forest University.

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Creating a Continuous Improvement Culture in Higher EducationChanging Higher Ed Podcast 123 with Guest Dr. Ami Moyal

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton, a leading expert on change management in higher education, and Dr. Ami Moyale, president of Afeka, a top engineering college in Israel, discuss the case study of Moya’s profound transformation of his institution’s culture to produce well-rounded engineers who are better prepared to meet the challenges of an ever-changing high tech workforce.

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Three Share Nobel in Physics

Inside Higher Ed

Three scholars have been named winners of the Nobel Prize in physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” The three are Alain Aspect of Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France; John F. Clauser of J.