IBM recently announced the 2011 Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award program, a competition designed to encourage the thoughtful development and incorporation of Smarter Commerce, Smarter Communication and Smarter Energy skills …
Louis Menand, author of The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, will discuss “What Every College Graduate Needs to Know” at 5 p.m. Thursday, 2/24. Menand, an English professor, asserts that universities are stuck in the past, failing to take into account dramatic changes in students and technology.
He will speak in […]
Ben Wildavsky, author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World (Princeton University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation (expected this year from Harvard Education Press), speaks tonight, Feb. 21, at 5 p.m. in the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library. Wildavsky is the third […]
What should be the purpose of higher education? How should it be funded? What role should institutions such as Duke play in the higher education ecosystem? What implications does a changing educational landscape have for teaching? These and other questions are the focus of Duke’s spring speaker series, Re-imagining the Academy. […]
As the holiday shopping catalogs and ads roll in, you may notice QR codes included to provide additional information about products.
A QR (Quick Response) code is graphic image which can be read quickly by a mobile phone through its camera. The app then takes the user directly to a website, video, text message, phone number or other information.
Both students and faculty use the first day of class to get a sense of what the semester will hold: will this be one of the best courses ever, or …
Because free and open access to knowledge is critical for a free and open society, educators should be contributors to and supporters of free and open access to educational materials. …
Duke faculty are invited to a free workshop on enhancing diversity in the curriculum, to be held Aug. 18, 2010 at UNC-Chapel Hill. The workshop will include a presentation by …
Princeton is one of the schools partnering with Amazon around uses of the Kindle in higher education. While many of the other schools in the pilot program are focusing on …
Michigan State University’s student newspaper states that prospective students now have an option between writing a personal statement or submitting a multimedia supplement to complete the university application. Applicants can …
