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• Harvard Ditching Final Exams?

  itwbennett writes "According to Harvard magazine, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at its meeting on May 11 to require instructors to officially inform the Registrar 'at the first week of the term' of the intention to end a course with a formal, seated exam, 'the assumption shall be...

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  September 2, 2010, 7:36 pm| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• Harvard Ditching Final Exams?

  itwbennett writes "According to Harvard magazine, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at its meeting on May 11 to require instructors to officially inform the Registrar 'at the first week of the term' of the intention to end a course with a formal, seated exam, 'the assumption shall be...

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  September 2, 2010, 5:46 pm| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• 15 Essential Back to School Podcasts

  

  Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.With another long hot American summer coming to a close, many students are scrambling to get back...

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  September 2, 2010, 8:36 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com

• Notre Dame embarks on a paperless course with iPads

  <!--CONTENT START--> The University of Notre Dame's yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang -- a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is entitled Project Management, and each of the 40 students enrolled will be...

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  August 31, 2010, 1:00 pm| Read full article | More articles from tuaw.com

• What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders?

  gphilip writes "I have been asked to contribute ideas for the preparation of a textbook for ninth graders (ages circa 14 years) in the subject of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Could you suggest material to include in such a text? More details below." Quite a few details, actually —...

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  August 29, 2010, 10:23 am| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy

  theodp writes "At some schools, a teaching load of five courses every academic year is considered excessive. But Sal Khan, as an earlier Slashdot post noted, manages to deliver his mini-lectures an average of 70,000 times a day. BusinessWeek reports that Khan Academy has a new fan in Bill Gates,...

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  August 29, 2010, 5:33 am| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• "Retro Programming" Teaches Using 1980s Machines

  Death Metal Maniac writes "A few lucky British students are taking a computing class at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park using 30-year-old or older machines. From the article: "'The computing A-level is about how computers work and if you ask anyone how it works they will...

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  August 26, 2010, 5:10 am| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• "Retro Programming" Teaches Using 1980s Machines

  Death Metal Maniac writes "A few lucky British students are taking a computing class at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at Bletchley Park using 30-year-old or older machines. From the article: "'The computing A-level is about how computers work and if you ask anyone how it works they will...

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  August 25, 2010, 12:13 pm| Read full article | More articles from slashdot.org

• College Curriculum Requires Undergrads to Play Video Game “Portal”

  

  At Indiana’s all-boys Wabash College, the critically acclaimed video game Portal will appear alongside The Epic of Gilgamesh, Hamlet, and Aristotle as required material for undergraduate students seeking any degree.The game will be part of a mandatory Freshman seminar called “Enduring Questions” that will explore “fundamental questions of humanity” through...

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  August 24, 2010, 10:41 am| Read full article | More articles from mashable.com

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