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The Digital Library: Providing services at the cutting edge

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Image Credit: uCreate Studio, Digital Library University of Edinburgh 2020 In this post, Mike Boyd Makerspace Manager for the TES Award Winning uCreate Studio and Carla Arton the former Digitization and Digital Engagement Manager, highlight the cutting-edge tools available at the Digital Library for learning and teaching and how they adapted their services to meet the challenge of the pandemic.

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Making higher education anti-racist

Regna Consulting

Radcliffe scholar details possible reforms in admissions, faculty representation. BY Colleen Walsh Harvard Staff Writer. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer. A discussion about antiracism in higher education with Ibram X. Kendi (pictured), the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller “How to Be an Antiracist.” Learn more: [link]. . . .

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Defining the Role of Academe in the Future of AmericaThe Latest Higher Ed News from Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

Defining the role of academe in the future of America needs to be addressed and defined by leaders in the Academy. A new administration took office this week—and this is one of the most important transitions in our country’s history. The national acrimony and strife that has been building since the 1980s came to a head this year, exploding into the streets, on campuses and into the headlines.

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Emerging Trend: Social media teams focusing on key social platforms, not fads

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Our latest research shows HigherEd social media teams focusing more on Instagram and Facebook, and avoiding new up and coming social networks

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The Digital Library: Providing services at the cutting edge

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this post, Mike Boyd Makerspace Manager for the TES Award Winning uCreate Studio and Carla Arton the former Digitization and Digital Engagement Manager, highlight the cutting-edge tools available at the Digital Library for learning and teaching and how they adapted their services to meet the challenge of the pandemic. Teaching Matters will feature additional posts […].

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Bringing politics back in to plans for the digital transformation of Higher Education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Image Credit: Design by Joe Arton. Original photography by Michael Dziedzic and William Moreland on Unsplash. As part of this month’s theme on Acceleration of Technology and Enhanced Learning, Ben Williamson from the Centre for Research in Digital Education and The Edinburgh Futures Institute writes of the political implications of private-equity backed technology companies steering the ‘digital transformation’ of higher education and pedagogic practice… The turn to digit

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COVID Psychological Impact on Higher Ed Institutionswith Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Marrs | Changing Higher Ed 069

The Change Leader, Inc.

The COVID psychological impact on Higher Ed institutions is the topic of this Changing Higher Ed Podcast with host, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest, Dr. Tom Marrs. Under discussion is crisis recovery for higher education institutions that will continue to remain challenging as the fallout from the pandemic, including increasing economic issues, continue to emerge.

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Meet the economist charged with keeping Biden’s promises to women and people of color

Regna Consulting

If confirmed, Cecilia Rouse would become the first Black official to head the Council of Economic Advisers, and only the fourth woman. By . Rachel Siegel. Jan. 19, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. Washington Post. Photo from Planet Princeton. . Cecilia Rouse was 4 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and riots tore through Washington, decimating Black businesses and neighborhoods.