November 2016

Do closed captions impact student learning? by eCampus News

November 8, 2016 0

A study conducted by Oregon State University discovered that closed captions on videos can benefit students in addition to satisfying ADA 508 compliance. Furthermore, the study suggests that students prefer having access to captions. According to eCampus News: 71% of […]

Handshake, popular career-services platform, now open to all students

Since its launch in 2014, career-services platform Handshake has dominated the higher ed market. Despite revelations that fraudsters have been able to create faux internships on Handshake, and students raising privacy concerns, the online service...
Columbia, Stanford and Chicago law schools now cost more than $100,000 to attend

The price to attend the law schools at Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Chicago will pass $100,000 this academic year, making them the first of the nation’s law schools to blow past...
Author discusses his new book on college teaching

The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching (Harvard University Press) is about what many professors don't know because they haven't been taught. David Gooblar, who has taught writing and rhetoric at...
New presidents or provosts: Belmont Empire Everett Hastings Ottawa Tallahassee UNC Asheville UWGB Washington State Winthrop

Michael Alexander, director of the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado, has been selected as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. Garikai Campbell, provost...
National 'nudging' campaign produced no increase in FAFSA applications, college enrollment

Nationalized “nudge” campaigns that shower students with emails and text messages to encourage them to apply for federal financial aid do not budge enrollment rates, as education researchers may have hoped based on the past...
The Marist list reveals what the freshmen know

It seems like it's always been here, but this is only the 22nd edition. The Marist Mind-Set List (formerly the Beloit list, after the college that founded it), is the list that tells you what...

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TILT Tip: Ways to Improve Reading Assignment Completion

Around 70% of college students come to class having not competed the reading assignment for the day. How can you improve this statistic in your classroom? Here are a few ideas from Pedagogy Unbound: https://t.co/ZIcp9UuocT

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