What if going to class was as easy as getting online? If attending lecture took no more effort than surfing the web? Well, wait, nevermind—the increasingly wide world of online education has already made that change, with demonstrable benefits to students. So let me revise the question.
What if attending lecture felt like surfing the web [...]
by Vincent Kovar
The traditional, hour-long lecture that’s so familiar to on-the-ground undergraduates has little place in an online learning environment. However, shorter, tightly focused lecturettes can help engage learners and add some multimedia punch to your classes. You don’t need a fancy sound-studio or even a DJ friend with an editing board to get started. [...]
by Vincent Kovar
In the real world, people use any and probably all available references and tools to complete a given task. Yet for some reason, on-ground education has traditionally relied upon memorization and “closed-book” testing. This can create confusion, both for the instructor and the students, when moving to an online model.
Teachers may find themselves [...]
by Vincent Kovar
Set the Tone through Modeling, Not Lecture.
Over much of history, education was conducted in a traditional “lecture” format largely due to the cost of books and the centralization of information in the instructor. Even today, shifting to a non-centralized, online format can seem foreign both to students and teacher. However, a solid structure [...]
Do they still count as secret if there’s an article about them? No, but they were never truly secrets to begin with—they’re guidelines. Winners of multiple scholarships get through the application process using very similar methods. Let’s look at five, all of them closely related.
1. Apply Early. You may have a greater chance at having [...]
When applying for a scholarship, there are tricks to writing a truly persuasive essay. That’s the bad news: there are tricks. The good news is that “tricks” here really means “guidelines,” and there aren’t many—a handful, sure, but you don’t have to be an accomplished writer to tell your story effectively. And this leads us [...]
by Kate
It’s true.
Now, you may ask yourself, why do I need the library when I have the Internet?
True. But the library does have things you cannot get anywhere else. Some examples: special collections, government documents, periodicals and bound journals (and there‘s more!). Crucially, university libraries grant you electronic access to full text academic journals [...]
Only a quarter of Americans have a college degree. What if that proportion was flipped … how different would things be if 3 out of 4 people had graduated college?
Vastly different.
In his speech to a joint session of congress last night, President Obama said that 75% of the fastest-growing jobs in the United States [...]
by blythepyrate
Things I Love:
· I love is lists. List-making is a powerful organizational tool. Everyone knows that. Beware though, the power of lists is an addictive power. Fine, don’t believe me. But consider yourself warned.
· I love handy website features (that work). Lots of websites have features they think are helpful when they are [...]
The Headline from Toronto, courtesy of the Ubyssey: York university student caught with fake degree.
The subtitle reads Law student one of hundreds in Canada with fraudulent post-secondary credentials, to which my honest-to-god first reaction was Whaaa-at?? Canadians? Cheating, at anything? This is unheard of.
But the article quickly makes things clear: “Third-year student Quami Frederick [...]
