Topic: Teaching and learning
Distributed Workplaces and e-Academics: What’s happening?
Over the last two decades we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of information and communication technologies and their application in […]
READ MORECross-cultural Challenges in Teaching International Graduate Students
Globalization has embraced the university, as it has sectors, owing largely to easy travel and a digital infrastructure that provides information instantly. […]
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Contract faculty, Governance, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?
Debora Rhode. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status and Academic Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Mary Burgan. Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Learning about learning
John Sutton Lutz and Barbara Neis , eds. Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008).
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Extreme Work-Study
In this excerpt adapted from his recent book, How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008), Marc Bousquet explores the relationship of mass higher education in the United States to a global shift toward precarious employment.
READ MOREEditorial Matters
Learning is a basic need. We are born with curiosity which gives us the easy ability to learn to speak and walk, […]
READ MORECreating the engaged student
As university professors, many of us have very busy schedules of teaching and research. For some, the first passion is research. But […]
READ MOREBlogging in Academe
New developments, discoveries and a diversity of ideas are encountered daily by those of us engaged in academic work. The explosion in […]
READ MORELa séduction pédagogique
S’il est un domaine où la séduction a mauvaise réputation, c’est bien celui de l’éducation. Les craintes proviennent du lourd sémantisme moral […]
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