A review of The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, by Cathy N. Davidson (New York, Basic Books, 2017); a summary of the recent announcements of a major restructuring of MIT, and a synthesis of other relevant developments.
It is increasingly obvious that we are living in one of the greatest ages of paradigm-shifts in Western history, compa...
Current anxiety over the values and directions of what we used to call “higher education” has rich and complex roots in the past, as well as problematic branches into the future. A crucial and core aspect of the subject not yet adequately understood is the structure and strategy of scholarship itself, and its future.
Forty-five years ago, in the heyday of “multiversities” lauded in bo...
In new #nebhe journal piece, Robin DeRosa @actualham examines #OER and equity, envisioning a post-#COVID19 university that sees food security and other basic needs as integral to a learner’s academic success https://bit.ly/31QLfY2
Happy #fourthofjuly weekend! Did you know that #veterans make up 8% of our New England population? Learn how #newengland states can support veterans' #creditforpriorlearning thru #military experience in our recent #nebhe brief: https://bit.ly/38jNR1A
A review of The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux, by Cathy N. Davidson (New York, Basic Books, 2017); a summary of the recent announcements of a major restructuring of MIT, and a synthesis of other relevant developments.
It is increasingly obvious that we are living in one of the greatest ages of paradigm-shifts in Western history, compa... 
Current anxiety over the values and directions of what we used to call “higher education” has rich and complex roots in the past, as well as problematic branches into the future. A crucial and core aspect of the subject not yet adequately understood is the structure and strategy of scholarship itself, and its future.
Forty-five years ago, in the heyday of “multiversities” lauded in bo... 
