A block teaching expert lists seven tips for switching to this new teaching model and gives examples of what it offers university educators
What is the TEF? ; Universities are classified gold, silver or bronze. These ratings are determined by seven core metrics based on teaching, academic support and progression to employment. Universities also submitted a 15-page document to a panel of higher education experts and students, which was used alongside the metrics to determine a rating. Universities opted into the TEF and provided the government with data to generate a classification. In 2017, the first year of the TEF, more than 130 higher education institutions and alternative provi ...
November 5, 2015 · 5:48 AM ET · By Barbara J. King ; In just four weeks, on Dec. 2, I'll teach my last-ever college class. When I depart my classroom in the College of William and Mary's anthropology department around 3:20 that afternoon, it will surely feel surreal. After 27 years, I'm retiring from teaching to take up full-time science writing. On the evening of Oct. 28, I gave an invited "almost last lecture" on campus to the college community (including some alums and local residents). P...
When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can’t help gasping, “Why? You want us to waste even more?” · How, you may ask, can anyone call higher education wasteful in an age when its financial payoff is greater than ever? The earnings premium for college graduates h ...
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Mercer University is one of America’s best colleges, with programs from undergraduate liberal arts to graduate, doctoral-level degrees in Georgia and online.
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