This collection edited by Bjørn Stensaker, Jussi Välimaa, and Clàudia Sarrico explores how universities are coping with the range of reforms and changes taking place across higher education today. Analyzing areas such as leadership, quality management, strategic thinking, collegiality, and academic work, and from the perspective of different agents within higher education–including students, academics, and management–the book examines the various differences between reform attempts and the actual changes happening in universities.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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November 29, 2012The Huffington Post discusses the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, a U.S. coalition of 28 public school districts in 18 states that serves approximately 2.5 million students. Through partnerships with universities, entrepreneurs, and each other, League members are committed to piloting, evaluating, and scaling up technology innovations that work in public education.
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November 29, 2012Writing in the Huffington Post, C.M. Rubin interviews Dr. Pak Tee Ng regarding the Singapore Ministry of Education’s support of ICT in public schools. Says Dr. Ng, ”The focus is on using technology as a tool for teaching and learning, rather than on technology in itself.”
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November 29, 2012PSFK reports on a pilot science program being launched in New York by Wu-Tang Clan member GZA and Columbia professor Christopher Emdin. The program employs rap lyrics–and the process of creating a good rapper–to make good science students. Instead of science papers, students will write rhymes about science, with the best ones being published on lyrics website Rap Genius.
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November 29, 2012Educational Policy in an International Context edited by Karen Seashore Louis and Boudewijn van Velzen provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes “the standards movement” and “new public management” or accountability in the public sector.
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November 28, 2012This short United-Eye Productions video employs free-style animation to show five key ways that education is improved by technology: Global learning Game-based learning Virtual worlds, digital simulations, and models Mobile learning Real-time data-based decision making
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November 28, 2012Writing for the SmartBlog on Education, Principal Eric Sheninger discusses the key elements to driving technology innovation in schools: Connectedness Vision Value Support Professional Development Embracement
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November 28, 2012Bully in the Ivory Tower by Leah Hollis examines the manifestation of workplace bullying in U.S. higher-education administration. After surveying more than 175 four-year colleges and universities in an independent study, Hollis confirms that workplace bullying occurs at alarming rates in higher education. Further, this study calculates the high cost of staff disengagement caused by bullying. After gathering data through surveys and interviews with administrators in higher education, Hollis develops a…
