Showing posts with label University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University. Show all posts

What's Happened to Universities?

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The latest issue of Academic Matters has a provocative article by Ken Coates on The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Univer...

Why Do Students Skip Lectures?

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There's an interesting article on student attendance at lectures in the latest issue of BAMBED ( Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Educ...

Online Training of Competent, Employable, Bioinformatics Professionals

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I think that undergraduate education at most universities is done very badly. There are far too many courses that consist of professors givi...

Where Are the Best University Teachers?

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Much to my embarrassment, the University of Toronto is promoting online courses [ Online courses for anyone, anywhere ]. These courses seem ...

University Tuitions in Canada and the United States

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The University of Toronto is the largest university in North America (70,000 students) and one of the top 20 universities in the world 1 [ ...

Sebastian Thrun Will Change Education

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John Hawks is a big fan of online education. He posted a link to a Wall Street Journal article about online education [ Online education and...

Graduation Day

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June is graduation month at the University of Toronto. There are various classes graduating every morning and afternoon for several weeks. (...

Searching for a Chair

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Universities are very complex institutions. I'm sure the average person doesn't understand how they are run. The reason I'm so s...

Online Courses: The Great Courses

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John Hawks has recently blogged about My foray into online education . He's posted videotapes of the lectures in his anthropology course...

The Business of Online Education

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John Hawks is interested in putting his lecture on the internet [ My foray into online education ]. I'll eventually get around to discus...

Should We Challenge the Beliefs of Our Students?

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  Is it part of our role as university educators to challenge the beliefs of our students? You're damn right it is! That's what univ...

How to Turn a University Into a Glorified High School

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  Ian D. Clark is Professor of Public Policy and Governance here at the University of Toronto. He has attracted a lot of attention lately b...

Medieval Teaching Methods

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  John Hawks posts a reference to an article in MacLeans magazine about undergraduate teaching. John supports a style of teaching that empha...

Professor or Hobo?

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  Can you tell the difference between a Professor and a hobo? Joseph Somody has posted a quiz. Check it out: Professor or Hobo? . Joseph is ...

What Did You Learn at University?

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  What did you learn at university? Not much, it seems, according to the data in a new book titled Academically Adrift . The book is reviewe...

Can Undergraduates Select Courses?

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  Greg Petsko has written a marvelous criticism of the decision by a university President to eliminate departments of French, Italian, Class...

World University Rankings

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The World University Rankings 2010 are out. The rankings are based on factual information, such as number of papers published, but also on ...

Six Professors

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  Chad Orzel thinks you can get a good undergraduate education in physics from only six different professors [ How Many Physics Professors D...

Socrates and His Method

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  Socrates (~469 BC - 399 BC) was a teacher in Athens. Most of what we know about him comes from the writings of his students and contempor...

Are University Professors Ignorant Luddites?

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  Here's an interview with Don Tapscott where he tells us what's wrong with universities and why they need to become more student fo...