Saturday, November 29, 2014

Embrace digital age or face irrelevance – Martin Bean

Brendan O’Malley, University World News: Universities risk becoming irrelevant and irresponsible if they don’t equip staff to deal with the digital age, said Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of the Open University, in the 2014 Sir John Cass’s Foundation Lecture at the Cass Business School in London. Bean said he wanted to focus his 5 November lecture […]

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Why Is American Teaching So Bad? by Jonathan Zimmerman | The New York Review of Books

In this article, Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education and 
History at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU, reviewes three books on American teaching: The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein; Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) by Elizabeth […]

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