Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Trials and Futures of ‘English for Academic Purposes’
Academic English is its own language (for better or for worse), and literacy in it requires more than just being a dab hand with Google Translate.
Quantophrenia is Back in Town
Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.
Performative Social Science?
The arts can have a role in both conducting social science and in getting into the hands of the wider community, argues Kip Jones, and should be in the quiver of research methods. Plus, it takes a step away from using PowerPoint!
The Devil’s Bargain of Massive Online Learning
Technology may bring efficiencies to higher education, argues David Glance, but only if the expectations of both the suppliers and consumers fundamentally change.
My Textbook is Tracking Me: An Author’s Online Solution
The author of a new introduction to statistics textbook was bothered that even among students who but their required books they rarely crack them open. So he decided to give them an incentive.
Online vs. Online On Campus — What’s the Difference?
The line between studying online and studying on campus is increasingly blurry, argues tech thinker David Glance.
Is Wikipedia Really Such a Bad Research Tool for Students?
rather than damning Wikipedia and Google for their imperfections, Amy Antonio argues we both embrace them and teach students how to validate the information they find there.
Will Technology Kill the University Lecture?
In the case of higher education the discussion of technology’s influence is often superficial, repetitious and disappointing, argues Tom Cochrane of Queensland University of Technology. It’s too often context free, and about being a university student and/or academic.
