…but, only if students know the math first. Media guru Griffin Gardner forwarded this article from ScienceDaily, which suggests that calculators are useful tools in elementary-level mathematics classes.  Citing research by Bethany Rittle-Johnson and Alexander Oleksij Kmicikewycz at Vanderbilt, and recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, ScienceDaily writes: “So much of how [...]

Danah Boyd joined the call for reforming how academics publish their work by calling for a boycott of non-open-access journals …and, provided a list of suggestions on what needs to be done now: Tenured Faculty and Industry Scholars: Publish only in open-access journals. Disciplinary associations: Help open-access journals gain traction. Tenure committees: Recognize alternate venues [...]

USC’s Lloyd Armstrong posted a link to a draft article for New Directions in Higher Education (2007, Wiley Periodicals) where he argues that globalization has had a small effect on higher education. In his blog, he writes: But why has higher education responded so slowly to the opportunities and challenges of globalization? I argue that [...]

In Spring 2004, Laurie Taylor and Brendan Riley published an article in Computers and Composition on introducing the Open Source model into education to transform the nature of academic research and pedagogy. In regard to research, the authors argue that adoption of the model among authors would shift the ownership of academia’s intellectual property from [...]

This paper projects potential futures and their implications on the present. Title: Preparing for higher education futures: From market-driven universities to the Technological Singularity John Moravec University of Minnesota © 2004 John Moravec (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice and a link to [...]