Thursday, August 28, 2008

CU considering undergrad assessment After four - or more - years at...

CU considering undergrad assessment After four - or more - years at...

After four - or more - years at the University of Colorado, administrators would like to say that students have actually learned something.


Law School Rankings Spur Allegations of a Cooking the Booksa

Criticism surrounding the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings adds to a chorus of questions about the nation's oldest educational ranking system.

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11 unions say UMass, Board of Higher Education bargaining in bad faith

11 unions say UMass, Board of Higher Education bargaining in bad faith
With contract negotiations flagging, labor unions at the state's colleges and universities have filed a complaint of unfair labor practices against the state Board of Higher Education and the board of trustees of the University of Massachusetts, accusing them of bargaining in bad faith.

Knol

Knol
Both students and instructors use the online collaborative encyclopedia  Wikipedia and both are likely to make use of Knol. The new Google site offers short articles on a very wide range of subjects from Backpacking to Malaria to Barbecue Sauces. Net watchers will be looking closely to see if Knol grows at the same pace and to the same scope as Wikipedia. ____JH
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The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know.

"The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a browser on any computer."