Saturday, November 05, 2011

Higher Ed Link Dump

In no particular order...

remedial courses might be a waste of time

a bunch of digital humanities syllabi

there's an open online course that examines "the state of online education and where e-learning is heading"

the mysteries of the administrative structure

should teachers be allowed to hate blog about their students?

starting points in the digital humanities

digital humanities archive fever (lecture video)

expand your blog's reach

The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (book)

preparing grad students for careers outside of academia

admissions officers get lectured on their policies concerning low-income students

professor cats and num nums

Alex's intro to the digital liberal arts course site

Virginia Secretary of Education website

Academe as Meritocracy

The Prestige Racket

I get it already; freshmen can't write

rinky-dinky George Mason University and dirty Koch money

Federal Higher Ed Policy and the Profitable Nonprofits (policy analysis; pdf.....also funded by dirty Koch money?)

a list of open education resources

radical ebook archive (I actually cringe at reading this kind of thing but I bookmarked it and tried anyway)

The Natural End of Schooling

Don't Look to the Ivy League

defining the digital humanities (video; I actually really like this a lot)

The Five Page Paper and the History Degree

What's at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case


straight talk about grad school (be aware that this is older)

Miriam's post on what it's like to be a PhD student


2011 higher ed surveys

academic advising for sale

Hacking the Academy (book, sort of)

How To Read A Book In One Hour (part of Hacking the Academy; I thought this was interesting because I've been trying to get this information from phd students but they've been hush-hush about their methods)

Mark Sample's bizarro version of Hacking the Academy

"...the scholarly monograph isn’t dead; it is undead."

“all curriculum students will receive a CVCC branded Debit Mastercard”

"I'm too busy"

Our Universities: Why Are They Failing? (haven't actually read these books yet but most of them are on my radar)

Not exactly sure what it says about me that all of that was bookmarked on my computer...

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