Saturday, January 18, 2025
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Main findings from the 2010 Campus Computing Project

Green, K. C. (2010) Managing Online Education, Encino CA: The Campus Computing Project,/WCET Kolowich, S. (2010) Internal barriers to online expansion, Inside Higher Education, November...

Data analytics and online learning

Business intelligence data display: Oracle Inc. Kolowich, S. (2010) Technology and the completion agenda Inside Higher Education, November 9 This article highlights what I...

Hope and despair: managing technological change

In a very funny low budget British movie called 'Clockwise', John Cleese plays a school principal with an obsession about punctuality who is asked...

Book review: Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Christensen Hughes, J. and Mighty, J. (eds.) (2010) Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Montreal QC and Kingston ON: McGill-Queen's...

World University Rankings: A reality based on a fraud

I am still seething with outrage at the methodology used by the THES World University Rankings. Under a headline 'University rankings key tool in recruiting...

How much does teaching count in World University Rankings?

And the answer is: 30%. The UK's Times Higher Education Supplement has produced a new set of world rankings using a new method that provides...

Towards a national framework for degrees?

Lederman, D. (2010) Borrowing from Bologna? Inside Higher Education, September 13 This is a report of an interesting initiative by the Lumina Foundation in the...

Book review: Changing Cultures in Higher Education

Ehlers, U-D. and Schneckenberg, D. (eds. ) Changing Cultures in Higher Education: Moving Ahead to Future Learning Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, 610 pp, US$129.00 What the...

Why most universities have such lousy web sites

Kolowich, S. (2010) No laughing matter Inside Higher Education, August 4 In case, like me, you missed this gem during the holidays, it is well...

The case for for-profit colleges

Keith Hampson's Higher Education Management Group blog, "And now, we hear from the defense." (For-Profit Higher Education) brings together some of the arguments for...