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Higher Education Emerging Technologies for 2011
Per Educause press release:Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2011 are:Time...
Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings
New York Times article questioning the reliability of university rankings after the release of the Times Higher Education ranking where Alexandria University in Egypt had placed 147th.Paul Wouters - director of the Centre for Science and Technology...
Tenure-track Job Satisfaction Survey
Harvard's COACHE (Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education) released the survey The Experience of Tenure Track Faculty at Research Universities in the Summer 2010.This month they released the names of the participating institutions with the highest level...
Yale’s School of Management gets $10m to build new library
FT article: Business school news - Wilbur Ross gives Yale $10m to build new libraryArticle from Yale's School of Management site: Investor Wilbur Ross Makes Major Gift to Support New Yale SOM CampusPicture from Yale's website."An illustration of a proposed design for...
Academics Discuss Mass Migration From Second Life
Article from the Chronicle of HIgher Ed. Blog: Wired Campus.Following an announcement to terminate the educational discount for educatinal institutions to settle a campus on 2nd life.some schools consider alternatives.Academics Discuss Mass Migration From Second...