Get caught up on what happened around the web the past week in higher ed with this collection of recent articles on post-secondary education. This collection explores issues the benefits and risks of sharing your work beyond the world of academia, trends in teaching, crowdfunding, Canadian trends in higher ed, and more.
Mount Allison professor working to establish international organization for teaching fellows
Mount Allison University
Mount Allison University Professor Elizabeth Wells and Arts University at Bournemouth (UK) Professor Kirsten Hardie are working to establish an international resource network called the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows. "The goal of the federation is to mobilize and connect the best minds in teaching around the world, which is a very powerful prospect," said Hardie. Planned initiatives for the federation include an annual teaching and learning summit, a journal, and a new international teaching award.
Speaking With, Not For
Inside Higher Ed
If our research never gets out of the ivory tower, then who is it helping, asks Jackson Wright Shultz.
Scholars Talk Writing: James M. McPherson
The Chronicle of Higher Education
To be called a 'popularizer' is the kiss of death for an academic only if the actual writing is sloppy and sensationalized.
No Rush to 'Go Digital'
Inside Higher Ed
Study shows faculty members remain skeptical of digital course materials and generally unfamiliar with open educational resources.
Teaching Team-effectiveness in Large Classes
Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
Students require accurate, actionable feedback to develop essential skills like teamwork, and a new HEQCO study examines a University of Toronto initiative to develop and test a tool that allows students in large classes to successfully understand their strengths and weaknesses.
Student Leaders Take to the Hill - Urge Government to Reinvest in Post-Secondary Education and Support Students
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA)
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations has released a list of six advocacy priorities that it plans to bring to Canada in the period leading up to the release of the new federal budget.
Indigenous women with post-secondary degrees out-earn other women: study
The Globe and Mail
While First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women are less likely to have postsecondary degrees than other Canadian women, they are likely to earn, on average, slightly more than their non-Indigenous counterparts with the same level of education, says a new StatsCan study. The study also found that the employment gap between non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal women was reduced as education level attainment increased.
University or college? Polytechnics fall somewhere in between.
MacLean's
Polytechnics have four-year degrees and an eye on the job market.
More university mergers on the cards, predicts Moody's
The Times Higher Education
Credit agency says the pace of change will quicken as governments seek cost savings.
Students Are Spending Less on Textbooks, but That's Not All Good
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The numbers can be misleading, and the real question is whether the costs are still hurting vulnerable students' chances to succeed.
Canada rebrands international education scheme and launches EduCanada
StudyInternational.com
This week, Canada unveiled its new EduCanada branding campaign to represent the country's global education strategy.
Can Crowdfunding Fill the Science Funding Gap?
Vitae
What is crowdfunding, and how can scientists use it to fund research?