Sara Davidson Squibb, Head of User Communication and Instruction at the University of California, Merced, recently hosted a webcast with us where she shared how Credo content can be shared, repurposed and embedded on library guides through the LibGuides platform. Watch the video below to see how she repurposed Credo guides to prepare local Subject Guides. She also talked about how her library pointed students to Credo content on Instruction Guides through search widgets, direct linking to books, and a tutorial for flipped classroom use.
During the first night of the Republican National Convention, prospective First Lady Melania Trump gave a speech, parts of which sounded very similar to a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2008. But was it plagiarism? Watch the video below and judge for yourself.
With the 2016 presidential race heating up, we took a look at how each of the candidates express their views on education policy.
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Ohio Governor John Kasich made news last week with his surprise second-place finish in the New Hampshire Republican Presidential primary.
When former President Bill Clinton was asked, "What is the most important thing you have learned?" at the Global Education and Skills Forum, I was struck by the fact that his answer was not any one particular fact or discipline.
In Wednesday’s Boston Globe, Vice President Joe Biden authored an op-ed titled, Five ways to make the digital revolution work for the middle class. The first item he lists emphasizes the principle of lifelong learning:
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Ellen Peterson, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, Maui College recently wrote an article for The Evolllution titled, “We’re Failing Our Students But We Can Change It: Raising the Profile of Information Literacy.” In it she looks at current trends in the American workforce, and gaps in the ways higher education is preparing students for life after graduation. Here are some of the key takeaways from her piece:
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Why am I learning this? That’s a question that pops into students’ heads like a refrain throughout their education, something I’m sure we all asked ourselves, our teachers, or our parents at some point. Sometimes we were given a good answer that helped engage us in the lesson that day; sometimes (and I’m looking at you, quadratic equation) we’re still not sure.
Bloomberg Business surveyed recruiters at hundreds of companies to ask them what skills they sought in candidates, and whether they saw those skills in the people applying for jobs. Bloomberg is using the responses to rank business schools, but I think there is a point worth looking at on a much broader scale: higher education has been slow to adapt to the new demands of work in the twenty-first century.
