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One of the things I dislike about teaching AP English Literature is that I really need to offer students opportunities to practice for the exam, which means timed writing and multiple choice practice. I don’t think timed writing is pedagogically sound because we are not replicating the kind of writing students will have to do most often in college and career. Sure, students have deadlines, but it will be uncommon for them to have to produce something like a timed essay in the real world. I also tend…
“We get a bit of regional loading, but we are essentially funded in exactly the same way as Macquarie University or University of Technology Sydney. We are working in such incredibly thin markets, it’s the definition of madness to keep doing it the same way.”
However, Nick Klomp, chair of the Regional Universities Network and vice-chancellor of Central Queensland University, said the proposal was largely a distraction that would get in the way of regional universities of educating people in the regions.
“To my mind, the priority isn’t to establish another university under a different regime, but for the Commonwealth…
Whether colleges and universities should consider race or ethnicity as part of the admissions process has been widely debated in higher education for decades.
The US Supreme Court justices originally heard these challenges to race-conscious admissions in October in two cases: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. The lawsuits argued that admissions policies taking race into consideration discriminate against Asian American applicants and, in the case of UNC, also white students.
Experts say the June 29 ruling will have far-reaching implications for diversity on college…
Brian Kisida
June 20, 2023Contact: Eric Stann, 573-882-3346, [email protected]
Growing up, Brian Kisida always enjoyed going to school. He especially enjoyed the broad spectrum of subjects he was able to explore, including the arts. Now, as an assistant professor in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, he is researching the relationship between arts education and student success.
Over the years, Kisida, an expert on education policy, has seen the culture of education shift dramatically.
“I saw the impact that the culture-obsessed test had on schooling, students’ mental health and enjoyment of learning,” Kisida…
SGI is making some noise about their work in defining how loud is too loud for vehicles in Saskatchewan.
Previously, no exact definition was set for when a vehicle was too loud, with drivers and enforcement officers having to guess.
This applies to all light vehicles such as passenger cars, pickup trucks, minivans, SUVs and motorcycles.
Now, with the new definition, SGI Spokesperson Tyler McMurchy is hoping the new information helps people to keep the streets quiet.
“The standard of 101.3 decibels was based on research conducted by SGI on federally compliant vehicles. I believe they went to a dealership…
What Does Prompt-Based Learning Mean?
Prompt-based learning is a strategy that machine learning engineers can use to train large language models (LLMs) so that the same model can be used for different tasks without re-training.
Traditional strategies for training large language models such as GPT-3 and BERT require the model to be pre-trained with unlabeled data and then fine-tuned for specific tasks with labeled data. In contrast, prompt-based learning models can autonomously tune themselves for different tasks by transferring domain knowledge introduced through prompts.
The quality of the output generated by a prompt-based model is highly dependent on the quality…
The most important question educators ask when we design curriculum is, What is it we want students to learn? If we don’t know the purpose and goals of our work, how can we evaluate students or respond if some of them are not learning?
This process of identifying the purpose of the first lesson is what educators call backwards design. In my 26 years of teaching, whenever our content team struggled to write assessments or respond to struggling students, it was because we did not agree on the specific goal of the lesson. For example, the goal of a US…
The Future of Higher Education What It Means For Students and Educators
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“The idea that one can earn a degree at the age of 22 and be set for a career has become as antiquated as the pocket watch.”
—Jeffrey R. Brown, dean at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, from his position paper: “It’s Time to Transform Higher Education”
How do we prepare students and workers to do jobs that don’t even exist yet?
For challenges we can’t even imagine yet?
To compete in industries and with business models that haven’t even been…