Teaching, Learning, and Facilitation

In this brief proposal, we are trying to envision a foundational higher education for the twenty-first century, an education that has some claim to adequacy for the possibilities of human beings today on this earth.

Higher education is big and will only get bigger, but current developments imply that the global world of university teaching and learning face complex dilemmas in the near future.

International educators have long sought research studies to support their direct observations: Students, when they return from study abroad, appear more mature than when they left. Is this due to the fact that the students are older, or is there something about the experience abroad that has

Brett Berquist from Michigan State University and Martha Johnson from the University of Minnesota authored a report for NAFSA on CIC’s recent efforts to count international students.

The law of the retarding lead is used by political scientists, economists, and anthropologists to describe the phenomenon by which the best-adapted and most successful societies have the greatest difficulty in changing and retaining their lead in a period of transition. Conversely, societies

Just as it's hard imagine what life was like before the Internet, after 2012's breakout year for Coursera, Edx, and Udacity among others, it's hard to speak about higher education without mention of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).