Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021
The 12 months 2021 pushed us all to be taught new classes in sudden methods, from deciphering public well being statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our reminiscence for the Greek alphabet because of rising COVID-19 variants.
Unsurprisingly, the pandemic featured prominently within the greater schooling tales hottest with EdSurge readers final 12 months. But reasonably than play-by-play information, readers sought evaluation and commentary about how the disaster continues to alter tradition and circumstances at faculties throughout the nation.
Additionally, tales about corporations and nonprofits making an attempt to innovate inside greater ed attracted quite a bit of consideration, as did a number of articles about studying science and new instructing practices.
Below is a countdown of the highest 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader curiosity. Thanks for studying, and joyful new 12 months.
Top 10 Countdown
10. Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. By Robert Talbert.
A math professor makes the case for utilizing class time for energetic studying.
9. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education? By Jeffrey R. Young
The MOOC big was valued at greater than $3.6 billion.
8. How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education. By Sabyn Javeri
In a Zoom classroom, the instructor is not the central authority, argues the writer of this essay, who explains why she thinks that’s good for schooling.
7. More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is a Parallel Higher Education System Emerging? By Sean Gallagher and Holly Zanville
Major corporations are specializing in broadly relevant tech ability units resembling IT help, cloud computing and digital advertising, clarify the authors of this opinion article.
6. Do Instructional Videos Work Better When the Teacher is On Screen? It Depends. By Jeffrey R. Young
Research into how one can maintain college students’ consideration in on-line programs. The story was half of a sequence on studying engineering and studying science.
5. Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing? By Jeffrey R. Young
This evaluation of a serious MOOC supplier proved prescient; the nonprofit was bought later within the 12 months.
4. A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It? By Jeffrey R. Young
Learning analysis doesn’t all the time replicate in subsequent trials. That hasn’t stopped some approaches from catching on in school rooms.
3. U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Don’t Teach In Person. By Jeffrey R. Young
When a campus security instrument turns right into a surveillance system.
2. More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It? By Jeffrey R. Young
An organization that ostensibly sells tutoring help raises questions on tutorial integrity.
1. Higher Ed, We’ve Got a Morale Problem — And a Free T-Shirt Won’t Fix It. By Kevin R. McClure
Professors and workers are beginning to marvel: Can they nonetheless stay out their core values whereas working at universities?
