Students who used longhand remembered more and had a deeper understanding of the material Walk into any college class and you will likely see most of the students on laptops feverishly typing every word the professor says but Cindi May reports for Scientific American how and why the old school method trumps technology when it comes to taking […]
Education technology and MOOCs took the traditional format of lectures and translated them into easily accessible and wildly popular online forums. While low completion rates draw criticism and bring the quality of online courses into question, higher education institutions must find new ways to identify and measure quality while improving the effectiveness of online learning. In the following […]
In this article for The Huffington Post blog, Zach Cutler identifies some of the ways higher education must adapt in order to stay relevant to younger generations. Millennials are making their mark on higher education. This plugged-in generation learns differently, and education institutions are starting to take note. Yet the education industry, with its emphasis on “focus work” […]
Written by By Edward Ortiz for The Sacramento Bee On most mornings, Katie Fyhrie, 25 and Emma Torbert, 35 meet at dawn at their Davis fruit farm. As they scramble up ladders to pluck fruit and later sort it into delivery bins, they embody a demographic shift underway in agriculture: young, beginning farmers, many of them women, are […]
Where are the women in America’s greatest scientific laboratories? Women in STEM are still plagued by sexist attitudes and traditional gender roles, leading to what many refer to as a “leaky pipeline” in academia. The following article illustrates the fact that scientific fields are still a boy’s club and, while the future can be hopeful for women, […]
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