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Kelderman, E. (2010) Credit hours should be worth the cost, House Panel members say Chronicle of Higher Education, June 16 I see US legislators are still trying to use chains and yardsticks to measure the speed of light. I don’t need to say anything about this stupid suggestion – just read the comments to the article. The [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Minor bumps for iPad Inside Higher Education, April 23 A report on how some USA universities and colleges have reacted to the iPad. Two interesting things to note: a high proportion of students are not interested in buying any digital book devices; and can Apple continue to ignore compatibility with Adobe’s Flash? One last [...] Bound, J., Lovenheim, M. and Turner, S. (2010) Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States Cambridge MA: National Bureau of Economic Research This paper answers two important questions: Is it taking students longer these days to graduate at the bachelor’s level? And if so, why? The answer: yes, more students today are taking longer than [...] Kolowich, S. (2010) Texas kills its Telecampus Inside Higher Education, April 9 This is one of those blogs I probably shouldn’t write, but what the hell. When I read this article, which is about the closure of the University of Texas central online distance education unit, I had a real sense of déjà vu. It mirrors almost [...] Kamenetz, A. (200) Adapt or decline Inside Higher Education, March 26 This is another breathless romp through the reasons why higher education must change, and how it will change, similar in tone and substance to the Tapscott and William’s article. Similarly, this article is a mile wide and an inch deep, as one of the comments [...] |
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