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“This critique details much wrong in US HE but also sketches a plan for reform.” Click here to read the full review.

Cathy N. Davidson describes what she wishes she had known when she started teaching active learning courses: “For well over a decade, I’ve been exploring the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory and studies of pedagogy, as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and … “10 Key Points About Active Learning” by CND, Inside Higher Ed

“…Cathy Davidson, distinguished professor of cultural history and technology at the City University of New York, would like to challenge them [disciplines] far more radically. She has pursued much of her career in English departments and, early on, published Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Yet she has “never been one of … CND Featured in Times Higher Ed, “Academic moonlighters: a bit on the side”

“Cathy Davidson, a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, recently shared some tips from her “active-learning kit.” One tool for encouraging participation is something she describes as “Exit Tickets.” It works like this: Three minutes before the end of class, she asks students: “What topic did we raise today … Two tips from CND in “Why You Should Ask Students to Help Design Courses,” The Chronicle of Higher Ed

“Our students need to be content creators, not memorisers. Outside school they have mastered this, and it’s more predictive of future success than test scores.” Read the full article here.

“The conventional wisdom about 21st century skills holds that students need to master the STEM subjects — science, technology, engineering and math — and learn to code as well because that’s where the jobs are. It turns out that is a gross simplification of what students need to know and be able to do, and some … “The surprising thing Google learned about its employees” by CND in The Washington Post

Cathy N. Davidson’s new book The New Education is mentioned in Julie Johnson’s “Three Takeaways: Complete College America Annual Convening.” Johnson writes: “Complete College America announced that over the next year, the new CCA Fellows, composed of top leaders in higher education, will work together to rethink some of the core tenets of the higher education system … The New Education Mentioned in Faculty Guild, “Three Takeaways” by Julie Johnson, Ed.D.

Effective management strategies for ensuring that everyone in a group contributes effectively, in faculty meetings, community organizing, and classrooms. Read more here.

Enough With the Laptop Ban Debate! “Amid the latest online brouhaha over use of devices in the classroom, educators say it’s time to focus on helping students however they need it — laptop or no laptop.” By Mark Lieberman Read the full article here.

“Cathy Davidson, the author of a new book, The New Education, visited Georgetown today. In a conversation about the book, she reviewed the historical roots of many of the practices of the modern university, many lying with Charles Eliot at Harvard in the late 19th century. These include the organization into departments, fields that separated the … “Taking Charge of Change,” from The Provost’s Blog at Georgetown University