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Stop Calling College Teachers ‘Professors.’ Try ‘Cognitive Coaches,’ Says Goucher President.
One problem with college teaching is that professors see themselves as, well, professing— declaring what they know and believe. That’s not how good t…
8 years, 11 months ago
Radiolab's Jad Abumrad On Creativity, Diversity, and the 'Humanities Crisis'
For those of you who listen frequently, you might be a little confused since normally, we put out only one episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast each…
8 years, 11 months ago
What Skills Do Google, Pinterest, and Twitter Employees Think Kids Need To Succeed?
In today’s day and age, Google, Twitter and Pinterest are three of the largest employers in the United States and internationally. But are students g…
8 years, 11 months ago
How Students Running ‘EdSurge Independent’ Say Colleges Should Change
Don’t even think of lecturing to these college students. The 14 students who just finished up the spring session of EdSurge Independent want somethin…
8 years, 11 months ago
What Edu Reporters Read: Hechinger, EdWeek, & the Chronicle on Top Stories of 2017
From Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to take over the classroom, to random acts in both K-12 and higher education compromising the private infor…
8 years, 11 months ago
Why Sara Goldrick-Rab Sees Income Share Agreements As ‘Dangerous’ Trend
Sara Goldrick-Rab's latest book is based on six years of studying how students struggle with paying for college. She argues that recent experiments i…
9 years ago
Clint Smith on the Power of Twitter and How We (Often) Fail to Teach About Inequality
There are few individuals out there who can list both “two-time TED speaker” and “doctoral student at Harvard University” on their resume. Clint Smit…
9 years ago
Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1
There are many unanswered questions about the unprecedented sale of Kaplan University, a for-profit institution with several online programs but fall…
9 years ago
Does Tech Support Personalized Learning—or Distract Us From What’s Really Important?
“Personalized learning” is a term that is no stranger to interpretation—even to the point that writers have started to argue about whether it’s worth…
9 years ago
Why Moodle’s Mastermind, Martin Dougiamas, Still Believes in Edtech After Two Decades
Before the “LMS” became an acronym and a hotly contested market of its own, Martin Dougiamas was writing code to share his “object oriented dynamic l…
9 years, 1 month ago