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HESA in the News

You’ve read our report on the state of e-learning in Canada. Now read the coverage – take a look at HESA in the news: Ontario Morning interviews HESA’s Joseph Berger about e-learning, September 13, 2011 (MP3 file; clip starts at 8:40 and runs until 14:00) Students give e-learning a grade of incomplete, National Post, page A1, September 8, 2011 Tech in the classroom impedes learning: Study, Toronto Sun, September 8, 2011 Why Johnny can’t find a job, article by Joseph Berger on

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September 13, 2011 No Comments

Why so Dismally Ahistorical?

If there is one thing that drives me nuts about defenders of the humanities, it’s their insistence on nailing their argument to an appeal to “historic values” which simply don’t exist. Take a recent essay pro-Liberal Arts essay in the National Post by Simon Fraser University professor Patrick Keeney, who writes, for instance, that liberal education is an “ideal that goes back to the Greeks.” That simply isn’t correct. Liberal education is a medieval invention – and it wasn’t all

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September 9, 2011 No Comments

Some Tropes We’d Like to Bury

It’s back-to-school time, which inevitably means we’re about to get a raft of journalists dubbing various things as “trends” (step forward, the Ottawa Citizen). Here are three that we should just ditch right now: (1) Rising Costs Mean More Students are Working. Wrong, at least if we’re talking about the last ten years. In the mid-80s, the student in-school employment rate jumped from about 30% to 40%, where it stayed through to the end of the 1990s, when it jumped

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August 23, 2011 No Comments

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