Die Fossilindustrie finanziert seit Jahrzehten Universitäten und fördert damit Publikationen in ihrem Interesse, z.B. zu false solutions wie #CCS. Hintergrundbericht anlässlich einer neuen Studie: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/universities-fossil-fuel-funding-green-energy

Studie: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.904

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New deceptions: How illiberalism is hijacking the university by [[Jo-Anne Dillabough]] and [[Andrea Peto]] on 04 May 2024

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I love this lecture series. Just started watching and learning. This opening bit, what he said about higher education, marketing, the science community (watched another ex-physicist YouTuber who confirmed it), startup culture, all so true.

Dec 29, 2023

Abstract

Most of us can probably say we struggle with posture, but for a long period after the turn of the twentieth century an American obsession with posture led to dramatic efforts to make students “straighten up."

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/journey-update-day-139

https://shindig.com/login/event/gutkin

Shulman, James L. The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2023. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190990/the-synthetic-university.

https://saragoldrickrab.com/

Quote from chat:

"Academia will panic... slowly." —Peter Shea (first portion) and Lisa Durff for the second portion.

(~13:00) Koe argues for making information relevant (Dr. Sung always says you must make info relevant) through the learning for the solving of a particular problem, either for a client, your business, or your personal life. Your problem becomes the lense through which you learn.

For self-education this is ideal.

Dr. Sung's approach differs in that he advocates for the creation of relevancy through inquiry (the asking of relational questions) which is also incredibly powerful, however this is more suited to gaining more motivation for forced learning, i.e., in the formal education system.

In addition, Koe's lense is, I think, more of a high-level filter, whereas Sung's questioning is applicable on the content level. Therefore, both approaches could be, and should be, combined into the same overall (self-)educational system.

Dan Koe seems to argue against a specialistic education based on the argument that it is nigh-impossible for a teenager to decide what they want (to be) for the rest of their lives. He also gives the argument that it results in a lack of creativity and underlying knowledge (that which connects the dots, instead of compartmentalization) which would result in abnormal performance.

I can bypass the limitation of the first point by giving the counter-point that when one has an insane amount of metacognition, which can be trained, it does not matter if one changes path later; why? Because one can easily learn the new subject matter and skills.

However, the second point is interesting and I think I agree with it. That said, I think there is a continuum, instead of only two points, between super-specialists and super-generalists. I myself enjoy specializing. And I believe a team of specialists (that can also work together) can accomplish much more than one (or even multiple) generalist.

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/retrenchment-day-18?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=40880&post_id=136245201&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

An interesting example of academic administrative bloat discussed here.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/retrenchment-day-14

If done solely from a business perspective, the administration ought to be looking very closely on what their "product" actually is and the quality of what they're directly selling and to whom. It sounds like they ought to re-evaluate their priorities and might benefit from reading The Fall of the Faculty by Benjamin Ginsberg. Is it worthwhile to get a bulk discount and buy a couple hundred copies to send to the deans and senior administration?

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/retrenchment-day-8

What is it that colleges are actually selling that they can so easily cut faculty over staff?

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/retrenchment-day-5

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/retrenchment-day-16

Retrenched! by Dan Allosso

As an educator, be courageous, lead by example. Start by asking questions out loud, not only those you wish students to answer, but also those you genuinely don't know, and wish to research together with your students.

Asking questions is how we learn. Do not avoid it for the sake of not looking stupid. That is stupid. Inquiry-Based Learning.

As Confucius said: "The one who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the one who doesn't ask is a fool for life."

Ferguson, Niall. “I’m Helping to Start a New College Because Higher Ed Is Broken.” Bloomberg.Com, November 8, 2021, sec. Opinion. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-08/niall-ferguson-america-s-woke-universities-need-to-be-replaced.

Seems like a lot of cherry picking here... also don't see much evidence of progress in a year and change.

Only four jobs listed on their website today: https://jobs.lever.co/uaustin. Note all are for administration and none for teaching. Most have a heavy fundraising component.

Mitchell Langbert’s analysis of tenure-track, Ph.D.-holding professors from 51 of the 66 top-ranked liberal arts colleges in 2017 found that those with known political affiliations were overwhelmingly Democratic. Nearly two-fifths of the colleges in Langbert’s sample were Republican-free.

No acknowledgement here that 2017 was a Republican Presidential administration, which means that a reasonable number of academics left academia to staff the administration. It's a common occurrence that there are reasonable shifts back and forth between government and academia as administrations change. One should look at comparisons from a Democratic presidential administration for a better idea versus Ferguson's cherry picking here.

Also unmentioned is the general disbelief in logic and the underpinning of science on the right in general, a fact which may make conservatives less likely to figure in these sorts of career paths. Are conservatives more likely to take career paths in capitalism-based endeavors than go into academia in the first place given the decrease in regulatory climate in the last half century?

Additionally by only looking at liberal arts institutions, he's heavily biasing the sample from the start. Why not also include the wide variety of non-liberal arts institutions? Agriculture and Mechanical Schools, Engineering Schools, Religious Schools, etc.?

The presumption of liberal profesoriate from the start is also likely to discourage students from considering the profession regardless of their desires and career goals, particularly when the professoriate has significantly shrunk in the last thirty years due to decreased funding. One ought to worry that there are any educators in the business of higher education, much less conservative ones who may be more biased to leave for higher paying careers elsewhere.

There are so many missing pieces of analysis here...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/opinion/college-learning-students-success.html

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590503604154093568.html

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-This article will provide me with examples of how transformative learning theory can be put into practice in higher education settings and its limitations.

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Christie, M., Carey, M., Robertson, A., & Grainger, P. (2015). Putting transformative learning theory into practice. Australian journal of adult learning, 55(1), 9-30.

This article will provide me with an overview of the experiential learning theory and how it can be applied to higher education settings.

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Kolb, A. Y., & Kolb, D. A. (2017). Experiential learning theory as a guide for experiential educators in higher education. Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, 1(1), 7-44.

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-This article will give me perspective on the limitations of current research on teaching and learning with technology in higher education settings.

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Kirkwood, A., & Price, L. (2013). Examining some assumptions and limitations of research on the effects of emerging technologies for teaching and learning in higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(4), 536-543.

-This article will provide me with insight as to faculty's attitudes towards adopting new technologies and incorporating them in higher education settings.

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John, S. P. (2015). The integration of information technology in higher education: A study of faculty's attitude towards IT adoption in the teaching process. Contaduría y administración, 60, 230-252.

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-This article provides an overview of how midwestern university professors use technology and teaching pedagogies to teach online courses.

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Benson, S. N. K., & Ward, C. L. (2013). Teaching with technology: Using TPACK to understand teaching expertise in online higher education. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 48(2), 153-172.

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-This article provides an overview of how midwestern university professors use technology and teaching pedagogies to teach online courses.

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-This article will provide me with insight into whether the use of technology in higher education classrooms is effective.

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Price, L., & Kirkwood, A. (2014). Using technology for teaching and learning in higher education: A critical review of the role of evidence in informing practice. Higher Education Research & Development, 33(3), 549-564.

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-This article provides insight to students perspectives of how they learned with technology in their higher education classrooms.

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Milliken, J., & Barnes, L. P. (2002). Teaching and technology in higher education: student perceptions and personal reflections. Computers & Education, 39(3), 223-235.

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-This article will provide me with insight on how to use technology to teach in higher education settings. This presents what conceptual change means and how it has been used in higher education settings.

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Englund, C., Olofsson, A. D., & Price, L. (2017). Teaching with technology in higher education: understanding conceptual change and development in practice. Higher Education Research & Development, 36(1), 73-87.

-This article will provide me insight on what excellent teaching looks like in higher education settings.

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Gourlay, L., & Stevenson, J. (2017). Teaching excellence in higher education: Critical perspectives. Teaching in Higher Education, 22(4), 391-395.

-This article will provide me with an overview of the learning theory known as student involvement and how it can be used in higher education settings.

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Astin, A. W. (1984). Student involvement: A developmental theory for higher education. Journal of college student personnel, 25(4), 297-308.

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-This article will provide me with insight on the evaluation of competence-based teaching theory in higher education and how it is put into practice.

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Bergsmann, E., Schultes, M. T., Winter, P., Schober, B., & Spiel, C. (2015). Evaluation of competence-based teaching in higher education: From theory to practice. Evaluation and program planning, 52, 1-9.

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-This article will provide me with insight into how to use technology for teaching and learning in higher education settings.

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Kukulska-Hulme, A. (2012). How should the higher education workforce adapt to advancements in technology for teaching and learning?. The Internet and Higher Education, 15(4), 247-254.

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-This article will provide me with information on the popular learning theory of social constructivism and its benefits.

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Stigmar, M. (2016). Peer-to-peer teaching in higher education: A critical literature review. Mentoring & Tutoring: partnership in learning, 24(2), 124-136.

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-This article will give me some insight on what technology- enhanced learning means and how it has been incorporated in higher education settings.

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Kirkwood, A., & Price, L. (2014). Technology-enhanced learning and teaching in higher education: what is ‘enhanced’and how do we know? A critical literature review. Learning, media and technology, 39(1), 6-36.

https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/do-colleges-fulfill-the-promise-of-social-mobility/

Klein, B., Generous, N., Chinazzi, M., Bhadricha, Z., Gunashekar, R., Kori, P., Li, B., McCabe, S., Green, J., Lazer, D., Marsicano, C. R., Scarpino, S. V., & Vespignani, A. (2021). Higher education responses to COVID-19 in the United States: Evidence for the impacts of university policy (p. 2021.10.07.21264419). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.07.21264419

College dormitories rooted in monastery and convent styles

https://www.uopeople.edu/

Mentioned at Hypothes.is Social Learning Summit.

Generally looks legit, though it has faced accusations of being a diploma mill and some balanced sounding reviews of it are not good.

A masters will run about $3-4,000 in fees.

Based in Pasadena, CA

Recommended by Ben Williamson. Purpose: It may have some relevance for the project with Ben around chat bots and interviews, as well as implications for the introduction of portfolios for assessment.

Michael Otsuka [@MikeOtsuka]. (2022, January 21). 👀Orwellian red-underlined command from the govt’s latest HE guidance👇. Even if this is assessed as too risky, based on best evidence & analysis, we must pretend that everything is now as it was before the pandemic. Ignorance is strength. (@ucu) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1048605/180122_Higher_education_COVID-19_operational_guidance.pdf https://t.co/biDj1FN1Jm [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/MikeOtsuka/status/1484466338034864128

Trisha Greenhalgh #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 [@trishgreenhalgh]. (2021, September 26). Big Thread coming on ‘returning to on-site teaching’. Intended mainly for universities (because I work in one), but may also be useful for schools. Mute thread if not interested. I’ll base it around real questions I’ve been asked. 1/ [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1442162256779821060

Kinds of data-driven decision making in higher education.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universities-say-they-want-more-diverse-faculties-so-why-is-academia-still-so-white/

Some good examples of senior and well-known people who have failed to get tenure, largely because of race.

Examples of how the system is set up to exclude diversity in terms of how the game is played.

Interesting that there is a focus here on advocacy from an active student body. Is it the expectation that change from some of the more stubborn areas of the campus would be driven by informed student push-back? This section on "Students, Faculty, and Staff" doesn't have the same advocacy role from the other portions of the campus community.

A list of books about how higher education has lost its soul.

Are these just complaining or do any of them work on a solution for making things better?

This helps me consider communities of practice, and unpacking the relational aspects - agency within a context, not autonomous, informed by the context and others. Is there a tension with "groupthink", how to value the diversity in a group, and build stronger not weaker, not defaulting or regressing to a mean?. How do we build a group to be more than the sum of the parts. how does the community work to enhance practice.

https://nscresearchcenter.org/stay-informed/

https://www.studentclearinghouse.org/nscblog/undergraduate-enrollment-drops-nearly-8-and-community-colleges-decline-15-since-fall-2019/

As much as I like the idea of putting your content out for free, I get that people need to make money if this is the business model. Schools and universities are probably under less pressure to do make a profit but still need to cover basic costs.

What Christine Ortiz is doing is legit tho (its the example she mentions next to Crow). I'm on the Admissions Committee for the uni she's building (currently only offers a summer fellowship program): https://www.station1.org/ -- might be worth looking into if you're exploring equitable innovations in higher ed

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“keeping students safe” means you must violate due process?

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Anne Applebaum</span> in Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic (<time class='dt-published'>11/07/2021 13:41:11</time>)</cite></small>

Anne Applebaum indicates that the secretive procedures being practiced at American colleges and universities to prosecute their community members is very similar to authoritarian governments like the Argentine junta, Franco's Spain, and Stalin's troikas.

Rough translation: Outside of class time, students can contribute to written forums or videos. They can also use a collaborative annotation tool such as Hypothesis to share their reading notes.

Hoss, T., Ancina, A., & Kaspar, K. (2021). Forced Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: A Mixed-Methods Study on Students’ Positive and Negative Expectations. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 642616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.642616

Romeo, M., Yepes-Baldó, M., Soria, M. Á., & Jayme, M. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Higher Education: Characterizing the Psychosocial Context of the Positive and Negative Affective States Using Classification and Regression Trees. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 714397. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.714397

Nate Holdren. (2021, August 26). This, at Iowa State, is bananas. Https://t.co/8CFPwfMqwe [Tweet]. @n_hold. https://twitter.com/n_hold/status/1430797840054358016

The first two really sound US-centric while the other two are common and longstanding. College athletics as one of "Higher Education's core pillars"? It sounds like American exceptionalism. Granted, athletics might become more important to Higher Education in other parts of the World. If so, that's very likely to come from US influence. The residential campus model is an interesting one. It's common and diverse. In my experience, it's not much of a consideration outside of the US.

Even tenure tends to vary quite a bit. In our context (Quebec's Cegep system), it doesn't really exist. A prof gets a permanent position after a while, as in a "regular job".

Which does make me think, yet again, about the specificity of Quebec's Higher Education. Universities in Quebec are rather typical among Canadian universities and differences with US universities & colleges can be quite subtle. Colleges in the Cegep system are very specific. They're a bit like two-year colleges in the US or like community colleges in both the US & other parts of Canada (NBCC, for instance). Yet our system remains hard to explain.

(This tate comes in the context of my reminiscing over my time in the US after monitoring posts from a number of US-based publications including IHE. Guess I should diversify my feeds.)

Very good Talk

Time in the US - Dropping out of school - higher education

Händel, M., Bedenlier, S., Kopp, B., Gläser-Zikuda, M., Kammerl, R., & Ziegler, A. (2021). Visual and Verbal Engagement of Higher Education Students in Videoconferencing. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/my4ze

Hazell, C. M., Niven, J., Chapman, L., Roberts, P., Cartwright-Hatton, S., Valeix, S., & Berry, C. (2021). Nationwide assessment of the mental health of UK Doctoral Researchers [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cs73g

Colleges Turn Arenas Into Vaccination Centers. (2021, March 24). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-03-24/colleges-turn-arenas-into-vaccination-centers

Pownall, M., Harris, R., & Blundell-Birtill, P. (2021). Supporting students during the transition to university in COVID-19: 5 key considerations and recommendations. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4fykt

Isaac Newton Institute: COVID-19 and universities, 13 January 2021. (n.d.). GOV.UK. Retrieved 23 February 2021, from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/isaac-newton-institute-covid-19-and-universities-13-january-2021

Bedenlier, S., Wunder, I., Gläser-Zikuda, M., Kammerl, R., Kopp, B., Ziegler, A., & Händel, M. (2020, October 6). “Generation invisible“. Higher education students’ (non)use of webcams in synchronous online learning. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7brp6

U of Vermont faculty members pledge to fight planned cuts to liberal arts. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2020, from https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/12/07/u-vermont-faculty-members-pledge-fight-planned-cuts-liberal-arts

This is going to be awesome when it debuts in universities. I can't imagine that any academics will be concerned when a departmental chair or administrator asks you why you're not sending more emails.

Schiermeier, Q., Else, H., Mega, E. R., Padma, T. V., & Gaind, N. (2020). What it’s really like to do science amid COVID-19. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02815-2

Article explores technology usage among adult learners in higher education and how to optimize learning outcomes via tech tools in these settings. The author addresses educational/instructional design and the need for instructors to modify traditional approaches. Rating 6/10

Friedmann, M. (2020, September 21). City official: 2 Yale students tested positive for COVID after visiting professor’s lecture. New Haven Register. https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/City-official-2-Yale-students-tested-positive-15584946.php

Effects and Use of OER in the global south. Survey, Statistics and data analysis presentation

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It’s Hard to Keep a College Safe From Covid, Even With Mass Testing. (2020, September 11). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/how-coronavirus-rampaged-through-university-of-illinois-college-campus

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Lancet, T. (2020). Research and higher education in the time of COVID-19. The Lancet, 396(10251), 583. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31818-3

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Tatiana Prowell, MD on Twitter: “#Coronavirus tracking from @UNC shows 31% of #SARSCoV2 tests run this week were positive, a dramatic increase from previous wks. Is anyone in #publichealth surprised by these outbreaks? I don’t think so. This higher ed experiment is a bad idea in states w/ uncontrolled #COVID19. https://t.co/pfiYlKEcSx” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 28, 2020, from https://twitter.com/reconfigbehsci/status/1298565943845621760, https://twitter.com/tmprowell/status/1298136038012002304

Patrick De Oliveira on Twitter: “After planning to bring back half of its students to campus in the Fall, Princeton is now deciding to go fully remote. ‘We cannot provide a genuinely meaningful on-campus experience for our students this fall in a manner that is respectful of public health concerns’” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved August 10, 2020, from https://twitter.com/PLSOliveira/status/1291829645600579585