Opinion

While it may go against the grain for faculty members who aren't digital natives, Paula Dagnon and Karen Hoelscher explain how to find out whether creating an electronic portfolio of your work is right for you.

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Kieran Healy imagines the documents the UVa Board of Visitors intended to issue.

By Kieran Healy

The Obama administration’s push to standardize financial aid packets will do little to address college affordability, writes R. Barbara Gitenstein.

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In the spring of 2008 I stood on the lawn in front of the president’s house at the College of William and Mary with a group of undergraduates, fellow graduate students, and faculty singing the alma mater and wondering if anybody was hearing the students’ voices swell.

By Myra Ann Houser

I spent Thursday at the “Strengthening Developmental Education” conference presented by the MDRC at Columbia University in a shockingly hot New York City. It was an odd cluster of presentations. On the one hand, the intellectual firepower present and the quality of evidence mustered was encouraging. There was an honesty about findings, and a humility in the face of facts, that’s all too rare at academic conferences. On the other, though, that meant that many of the findings suggested that much of the student success toolkit -- learning communities, summer bridge programs, and dual enrollment, to name a few -- just won’t live up to our hopes.

By Dean Dad

The Digital Humanities and public scholarship and engagement come together in this fantastic initiative.

By Lee Bessette

What do you think are the most important attributes for a successful career in educational technology?

By Joshua Kim

Like most people, my first encounter with the word “Monopoly” was through the board game by that name. It would...

By Rosemarie Emanuele