With changing students and times, colleges are going back to school (New York Times: Many colleges and universities are facing a gloomy picture, painted by polls, politics and population shifts that are forcing an overhaul of campuses across the country)
Tag Archives: Education
The Case for Open Access Research
from Digi*Pub…
Today, 45 percent of scholarly research is published in some kind of Open Access format. Why is so much research being published in this format? What exactly is Open Access research and why is it important to research institutions and researchers? How have traditional journal publishers responded to Open Access? What are universities and other research institutions doing to curate and collect Open Access research? Can we rely on for-profit Open Access publishers to preserve research when their profit motives change?
Restructuring the Education Department (Inside Higher Ed: Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, and combine postsecondary and career and technical education into a single ‘Office of Postsecondary Education and Lifelong Learning’)
NUS to nurture students who are graduates for life (The Straits Times: The National University of Singapore is considering expanding the proportion of adult learners to more than half of its modules…The university is now experimenting with having more than 10 per cent of adult learners in each class)
Coursera’s bet on the upskilling of American workers (Forbes: Interview with Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera. He discusses the choice of certifications, how the workforce certification market is evolving, and how companies are assuming a greater role in designing as well as operating training [vis-à-vis traditional education institutions], utilizing online platforms)