Remove Educational Technology Remove Political Science Remove Tradition
article thumbnail

Is College Worth It? A Father and Son Disagree on Whether to Finish Their Degrees

ED Surge

And they even chose the same major, political science. And a lot of the jobs that we have today [that require a traditional college degree] aren't going to be here tomorrow. Technology is statistically becoming a bigger and bigger part of today's society as we speak. These two have loads in common.

article thumbnail

Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

The Hechinger Report

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

One such essay, written by Susan McWilliams Barndt, who teaches political science at Pomona College, takes up an existential question her students ask, especially these days: Why study the humanities when people are dying? Launching the journal via an established university press made sense on several fronts.

article thumbnail

Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

ED Surge

It's really hard right now to be someone of traditional college age; it's really hard for students to see the value of college in the ways that they've been told it's valuable, Gannon says. Students mental bandwidth is narrower than ever before, Gannon says.