New Reports from College Board on Men of Color and Higher Education
There is a crisis in higher education (yes, I know there are many crises, but few have stakes this high). College Board reports: “Nearly half of young men of color […]
2011
Higher Ed Opp Act Offers College Cost Reporting
HEOA has now mandated transparency about college costs, including highest and lowest cost institutions in each category (private, public, 4-year, 2-year, etc.), rate of cost increases, and other useful information […]
Dartmouth’s Latest Accessibility Efforts
A quick read of the action steps from their Accessibility committee: – Hiring an IT Accessibility coordinator – Captioning Youtube and other video materials – Routinely running accessibility checks on […]
BCC – Best of the Berkshires!
BCC was chosen over Williams College, Mass College of Liberal Arts, and Simon’s Rock College!
An Argument for College: Brookings Institution
Brookings contributes this report. They calculate the cost of college (including lost wages of a HS grad while s/he attends college, plus college costs) is an investment that will yield […]
Live … Now … Free … Online Teaching Conference 2011 Virtual Attendance
Took me a few minutes to find the link to the Remote-Learner Moodle site (look under help). Some valuable sessions here for Thu and Fri, 6/23-24. May be archives later. […]
What is a MOOC?
A “MOOC” is a massively open online course, which is structured so that anyone can access and participate in the course from either inside or outside the institution offering it. […]
Uses for Twitter, Part 2
Following up on Part 1, let’s explore the hashtag (#). Hashtags are used before keywords in a tweet to allow that keyword to be more searchable. So, if you search […]
Summertime: A Visit to the Khan Academy
I have posted some KA videos before in this blogspace, but this resource bears pointing out again. Mr. Khan created some algebra videos to help out his cousins back in […]
Inside San Quentin, Inmates Go To College : NPR
This is an inspiring story about the power of education to transform peoples’ lives. It is worth listening to the audio for the mini-interviews of the graduates of the program. […]
