International study claims higher education is still good for you

Some interesting reading in my morning paper: In purely financial terms, the benefits of a postsecondary education to individuals and Canadian society at large far outweigh the costs, a new report suggests. However, as Canada spends more and more on higher education, an increasing percentage of the cost is borne by students and their families, […]

Open course-wars, redux… the real nastiness is elsewhere

Fightingcc licensed photo shared by Anke L I did my best to unplug over the holidays, so there has been lots to catch up on… It’s hard not to be struck by the sheer volume and passion of responses stirred up by George Siemens’ post Open isn’t so open anymore. It’s a long, multi-pronged argument, […]

At UBC this Thursday next Tuesday? Check out this session…

I want to throw a quick shout out for this next week’s installment of the Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) series, which features three of our university’s most accomplished instructors: Community Building and Student Engagement: A Multidisciplinary Panel Tuesday, November 21, 2006 – 1:30 – 3:30pm Location: Telestudios Main Theatre, Lower Level, 2329 West […]

Wikipedia and Higher Ed – Glib Answers to Tough Questions

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Amazing Global Square Puzzle!, originally uploaded by Natman. I was recently sent a few questions by a reporter working on a story about Wikipedia and its effect on higher education in […]

Once again, The Chronicle explores the perils of scholarly blogging…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has opened up access (there would have been a predictable backlash had they decided otherwise) to a forum discussion concerning the case of Juan Cole, Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. In the forum intro the discussion problem at hand is framed […]