By Stephen Burd By any measure, November 2nd was a great day for the for-profit higher education industry. With the Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives, some of the sector’s biggest champions will now be in powerful positions to protect the industry’s interests. None...
By Tamar Lewin Stanley H. Kaplan started his tutoring business in the basement of his parents’ Brooklyn home in 1938. As standardized tests became a bigger fixture of American education,.
By P.D. Lesko Last week, we launched our Facebook page and linked all of our Nation Blogs to Twitter. Whew! It's fun to watch the number of people who "like".
By Ron Tinsley Innovation in technology continues to grow exponentially in the U.S. and across the globe. Laptops are getting faster and cheaper (except Mac Notebooks) and phones are becoming more app-happy and complex. I bet one day you may be able to flush your toilet...
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When you think about your weekly facilitation duties, do you feel prepared or do you experience anxiety? Adjunct instructors understand the importance of effectively.
In today's post, I'm exploring some of the teaching platforms I have used, their pros and cons, as a preface to a future post wherein I will be exploring BlackBoard.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I was so excited to accept the position as an adjunct where I am currently teaching that I was honestly willing to teach any course they assigned to me. I remember feeling this way directly out of college – the excitement of taking my...
By Helene A. Matheny When I returned to the United States from my graduate studies in London in 1998, I knew I wanted to teach, but didn't really yet know.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Yesterday was the California Shake-Out. This feels like a statewide acknowledgment that the world really will end in 2012 (the year that the Mayan calendar ends), and.
By Rich Russell Before seeing the new movie The Social Network this past weekend, I first read the article on co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. His own Facebook profile is quoted in the piece: "I am trying to make the world a more open...
