outside both boxes
Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen Open-plan offices are noisy workplaces. Workers complain about concentration problems and a lack of privacy and have started to use all kinds of tools – such as headphones – to close themselves off from the outside world. The assumed and predicted benefits of these open workplaces, such as more […]
Silence, please! — 3-Star learning experiences
The Program of International Student Assessment (PISA), managed by Andreas Schleicher and the OECD Education Skills Office in Paris, France, is still regarded as the “gold standard” in comparative student assessment and enjoys a rather charmed life. Every four years, educational leaders, commentators, and engaged teachers eagerly await the results of student testing and […]
Leaning Tower of PISA: Why has International Student Testing failed to improve education systems? — Educhatter
I mentioned a while back that one of the ChatGPT papers handed in to me last semester included a made-up quotation that not only doesn’t appear in the original but actually contradicts what the author said. Here’s the AI: Edgar Roberts defines a story as a “verbal representation of human experience” that “usually involves a […]
The AI invents a quote, badly — Catherine & Katharine
Discussing their analysis of a new dataset of journals published via the Open Journals Systems publishing platform, Saurabh Khanna, Jon Ball, Juan Pablo Alperin and John Willinsky argue that rather than being an aspiration an open, regional and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystem is already in existence. While no one really knows how many academic journals exist in the world, our recent study…
Beyond Web of Science and Scopus there is already an open bibliodiverse world of research – We ignore it at our peril — Impact of Social Sciences
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The Learning Scientists VLOG: The Learner Variability Project — From experience to meaning…
Next month, the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors will vote to decide whether or not the public university system will adopt a policy banning compelled speech, the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal first reported. Currently, it is common for institutions of higher learning to require applicants to submit a “diversity statement,” […]
UNC May Ban Compelled Speech, Advancing Free Expression on Campus — 2023News
A new analysis from Studyportals draws on the platform’s own search data as well as mobility statistics from UNESCO and the OECD to map both historical and emerging patterns of international student demand. We should note that the usual cautions around UNESCO/OECD numbers apply here: those statistics are primarily concerned with higher education studies abroad…
A data-based case for diversification: Study finds that only 14 countries account for half of all international student enrolments — ICEF Monitor – Market intelligence for international student recruitment
The AI is starting to make sense to me. Maybe not sense, exactly, but I no longer find it startling to see the AI making things up. I think the reason I found the AI so shocking when I first encountered it in student papers is that the AI turns a core fact about reading and […]
The upside down — Catherine & Katharine
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – German trachea transplanters forgot to retract 7 papers, a bullying psychologist in Sweden, a colossal wanker with a dodo, ERC thanks an expert, German EiC leaves havoc behind, an EMBO editor has some explaining to do, and finally, how ethics at Cambridge and Oxford University Presses work.
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – Where have all retractions gone? — For Better Science
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