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Future of Higher Education Conference (6)

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Mills

The fourth panel at #masonfuture included Bryan Alexander of NITLE, Robert Beichner of NC State, Anne Moore and Terri Bourdon of Virginia Tech, and Kevin Clark and Mark Sample of Mason. Their topic is “Beyond the Lecture Hall: Technology and Student Learning.” Beichner showed us a model of the “scale up” classroom that they use at…

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The Future of Higher Education Conference (4)

Posted on November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 by Mills

The third panel of the #masonfuture conference was titled “Alternative Frameworks for Educational Delivery” and included Burck Smith, founder of StraighterLine, Andrew Rosen, Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., Sally Johnstone, VP of Academic Advancement at Western Governor’s University, and Jeff Offutt and Tyler Cowen, professors here at Mason. I’m interested to hear how the…

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Future of Higher Education Conference (3)

Posted on November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 by Mills

Now that my session is done, we get to hear from Anya Kamenetz, author of DIYu. Like our other speakers, she began with a focus on the rising cost of college for students, the amount of loan debt they acquire, and the general trend of shifting the cost of higher education to students and away…

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Productivity in Higher Education

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Mills

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of productivity in higher education. There are many ways to measure what we accomplish such as numbers of graduates, what kinds of jobs our graduates get, research dollars, patents received, research productivity (publishing), just to name some of the most obvious. But any discussion of such…

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