Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Pricing the ‘Great Cost Shift’ in US Higher Ed
Some Australians have looked to the United States as a model for revamping Oz’s higher education system. U.S.-based sociologist Steven Ward suggests they ought to take another look.
Googling ‘Reference Work’ in the Age of Wikipedia
These aren’t the best of times for reference librarians, but the challenges leave only one option — to get with the times.
The Trials and Futures of ‘English for Academic Purposes’
Academic English is its own language (for better or for worse), and literacy in it requires more than just being a dab hand with Google Translate.
Quantophrenia is Back in Town
Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.
Performative Social Science?
The arts can have a role in both conducting social science and in getting into the hands of the wider community, argues Kip Jones, and should be in the quiver of research methods. Plus, it takes a step away from using PowerPoint!
The Devil’s Bargain of Massive Online Learning
Technology may bring efficiencies to higher education, argues David Glance, but only if the expectations of both the suppliers and consumers fundamentally change.
My Textbook is Tracking Me: An Author’s Online Solution
The author of a new introduction to statistics textbook was bothered that even among students who but their required books they rarely crack them open. So he decided to give them an incentive.
Online vs. Online On Campus — What’s the Difference?
The line between studying online and studying on campus is increasingly blurry, argues tech thinker David Glance.
