October 31, 2019
The new report reads—predictably, I suppose—as a parody: Bold visionaries are shedding the constraints of what higher education has traditionally looked like; they are creating radical new models increasing access for a more diverse set of students, enabling them to...
October 31, 2019
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, writing on DARIAH Open: Still, as we see, the need for a cultural shift in research evaluation is currently stuck in a vicious cycle. As long as scholarly communication practices are trapped by research evaluation criteria that are dominated by...
October 30, 2019
Robert Shireman, in an Inside Higher Ed commentary: [M]any colleges pay a share of every tuition dollar to online program management companies that recruit students, among other responsibilities. It would seem to present a pretty clear violation of the ban that...
October 30, 2019
Nice to see two acronymic forces in the European open humanities scene pledge to cooperate, but why not merge? The two entities cover the same territory, or at least aim to.
October 28, 2019
Patricia McGuire, in a Chronicle commentary [paywall, alas] on the tyranny of metrics: In recent years, pushed by the critics who push Congress and the U.S. Department of Education, accreditation has inexorably moved toward even more data-driven assessment processes...
