Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Techniques video library: Update your classmate. For example, the first Faculty Forward meeting started with the big question of "What is engaged teaching and why does it matter?" " Another big question was “How do I build supportive and inclusive communities in my courses?" Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.) link] Barkley, E.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

APRIL 1, 2016

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. focuses on everyday teaching and learning materials as well as the bigger initiatives and library collections. Useful ‘how to’ guides and guidance on best practice.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

That expectation was wrong in 2002, and it’s even worse now, as this grim report shows. They are likely to have to apply for a new campus parking permit or library card every semester. Some thought it was a throwback to the 1930s or a tip-off that someone was a Marxist. Many are told what textbooks to use and what tests to give.

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Academic Librarian

MARCH 24, 2016

[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. Except for a year when I exiled myself from academia, I either taught writing or worked in a writing center from then until the end of 1999 when I finished library school.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The HELM project HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) is a collection of 50 workbooks developed by five English universities – Loughborough, Hull, Reading, Sunderland and Manchester – between 2002 and 2005. HELM resources cover the curriculum of first and second year mathematics courses for engineering undergraduates [1].

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. It found it was not sure ‘what a positive research culture looks like’ or what ‘research culture framework to adopt’.

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