Filter & Sort
Learning to Adapt
Major study of adaptive learning finds inconclusive results about its ability to improve outcomes and lower costs, but use at two-year colleges and in remedial courses shows potential.
Shrinking Job Security
After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained. So the board shifted to one-year contracts.
The Dutch Fight for Research Integrity
Every researcher will be questioned. New funds will go toward replication of findings.
Opinion
Romancing the Academic
Catherine M. Roach describes the joy of falling in love with a whole new field of inquiry and style of research.
Scaling Up OER
New initiatives at university systems show the maturation of efforts to increase the use of open educational resources.
A Push for Transgender Studies
University of Arizona has added faculty lines and a journal, and is planning a major conference and a master's program.
Stacking the Deck?
UCSD accused a student of copying from another person's midterm exam, but officials wouldn't reveal the identity of the other student or whether the two were sitting near each other.
Notable History
A fascinating new paper sheds light on how note keeping was once central to the pedagogical experience, deeply embedded in the whole social system of academe, writes Scott McLemee.