The Open Academic
by Jill Rooney, Ph.D. Education Writer for OnlineColleges.net
March 27, 2013
Peer Grading: How to Do It, How to Get It!
One of the biggest trends in online education, especially in MOOCs, is peer grading, the process by which a student’s academic work is evaluated by fellow students, who also assign grades to that …
March 25, 2013
What is Education’s “God Particle”?
Back in the late 1970s, Douglas Adams’s cult classic radio play, book, and TV series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” first asked the ultimate question of life, the universe …
March 22, 2013
The One Tech Tool Teachers MUST Use
We need to rethink the importance of emailing our students. Don’t misunderstand me: I love new classroom technologies. I’m especially fond of Twitter because it allows me to make a single …
March 20, 2013
3 Surprising Things Your Professors Can Do for You
Students often fail to interact with their college instructors because they don’t know the multiple roles faculty can play outside of the classroom. I’m always puzzled, for example, when students …
March 18, 2013
Why Students Should (Temporarily) Turn Off, Tune Out, and Drop Out of Social Media
Back in the 1960s, counterculture guru Timothy Leary told young people to “turn on, tune in, and drop out,” meaning that they should drop acid and/or smoke pot, adopt the counterculture’ …
March 15, 2013
7 Ways Adjuncts Can Help Students
Adjuncts teach the majority of college courses today, which is a relatively new situation in the history of higher education in the U.S. As reported on InsideHigherEd.com, “As recently as 1969, …
March 14, 2013
Will the National Digital Public Library Change Education?
They say that knowledge is power, and as an educator I certainly believe that- my goal is to provide my students not just with content knowledge but also the skills to help them become the masters of …
March 13, 2013
5 Ways Educators Can Help Raise Graduation Rates
A new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows terrible college graduation rates. According to The New York Times, “It finds that of the 1.9 million students enrolled for …