Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

by Chris Mayer. High tuition and the resulting loan debt, along with low completion rates and concerns about how much students are actually learning in college, have led critics to call for the unbundling of higher education. Unbundling higher education involves creating learning opportunities that are shorter than traditional undergraduate degrees, and more focused on the development of a particular skill or acquisition of knowledge.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

We have a new in-depth members Guide to Artificial Intelligence. This is the third in our series of in-depth guides that are published quarterly. Our AI guide dives into many topics surrounding AI such as, what is AI, how it is being implemented in education, and what the future holds for AI and education. You can log into the member portal for access to the guide, and download your copy – only available to members. .

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Complete concentration from participants at Shirley’s Personalised Mending workshop. Photo credit: Karen Zhang, Donghua University. In this post, Shirley Mclauchlan, a Lecturer in Textiles at Edinburgh College of Art, shares her reflections on some unexpected outcomes during a recent research and teaching visit to Donghua University, in Shanghai, China… In October 2019, I was invited to Donghua University, Shanghai, by Dr Juliette MacDonald, who is the International Dean at Shangh

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Photo credit: © Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning This is the third post in the ‘ Spotlight on ELIR ’ series, which will chart the Enhancement-led Institutional Review (ELIR) that will be taking place in autumn 2020. In this post, Professor Tina Harrison introduces the second draft chapter of the Reflective Analysis, ‘Enhancing the student learning experience’, and outlines how staff and students can provide comments… WHAT IS CHAPTER 2 ABOUT?

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Higher Ed Connects: Curriculum

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

by Chris Mayer. Undergraduate curricular change at colleges and universities is undertaken for many reasons. At some institutions, the curriculum has been in place for many years, even decades, and it is time for a change. Demographic pressures and concerns about the value of degrees are also motivations for curricular change as some colleges and universities, especially liberal arts colleges, seek a stronger connection between the college experience and employment opportunities for students aft

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

By Fatma Katr. In a fast-paced world where rising human relation issues are often misrepresented or misinterpreted, higher education institutions are moving forward to diversify teaching methods when introducing these issues. One of those methods involves the use of virtual reality (VR) to evoke emotion and empathy among students. . Like any learning technology, VR can be integrated in university curriculums in useful ways, in the sense that it is able to tap into student emotions and their conc

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

by Terri E. Givens. In November I attended the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) annual meeting of Chief Academic Officers, which was held in Baltimore, Maryland. One of the more interesting discussions during the conference revolved around artificial intelligence (AI). Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, discussed a series of issues related to AI and its potential applications.

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