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Category: Teaching & Learning

Water

Big day at HESA Towers as it’s the return of our Academic Programs Team’s series Monitoring Trends in Academic Programming (MTAP), a project led by Jonathan McQuarrie.   This edition is about programs which focus on Water, and you can read it here. It’s also the first MTAP with a co-author, Tiffany MacLennan.  And if you like that, do read our previous issues on there are previous editions on programming in Health, programming in  Agriculture/ Aquaculture and in the Humanities. The keen eyed among you

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October 28, 2021 No Comments

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (3) – New Pedagogies, New Credentials

On Monday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; yesterday I discussed the first big future trend (“Funding Challenges Forever”), and today I want to talk about the second, which I call “New Pedagogies and New Credentials”. The experience of learning online during COVID has divided both learners and instructors.  A clear majority have a healthy dislike for it, and a few loath it.  But a significant minority enjoyed the experiment.  For students who never

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September 29, 2021 1 Comment

‘til September

So, it’s that time of year when I say farewell to faithful readers for a few months.  This is the last blog of the academic year.  Normal service will resume August 30th. Today also marks the end of this blog’s tenth year.  Which, you know, is a bit terrifying.  Because that means this blog is probably over a million words old.  I’m sure my mother would have preferred I spent all that time on a doctorate.  (You should think about

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June 17, 2021 2 Comments

Faculties of Agriculture

Agriculture faculties often sit oddly within the modern university.  I mean this literally in the sense that they are usually off at one end of campus or in some cases several tens of kilometres away from it.  Despite strong roots (heh) in the biological sciences, they get treated as separate entities for reasons that aren’t really evident from a scientific point of view.  The rough analogy from the physical sciences  is computer science, which, like agriculture, has a pretty high

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June 10, 2021 1 Comment

Complements or Substitutes?

One of the fastest ways to get into an argument at a university is to suggest that there is some necessary trade-off between research and teaching.  Really.  The words will hardly be out of our mouth before someone comes charging at you, claiming the opposite.  It’s not an empirical argument or anything, but an article of faith.  Frankly, you wouldn’t want it to be an empirically testable position because if it was, someone might start asking some pretty difficult questions.

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June 1, 2021 3 Comments

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