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Direct linkWheeler, David L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Fifteen years ago, the Australian state of Queensland was famous more for its beaches than for its brain power. Fellow Australians thought of Queenslanders as miners, farmers, or surfers, not as professors or scientists. When Queensland announced in 1998 that it was planning to become a "Smart State," or a knowledge economy, locals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Research and Development, Educational Change
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
For many Americans, the confluence of a recession and a growing realization that the nation needs to end its reliance on fossil fuels seems like a double dose of bad news. But for the nation's research universities, it may be an opportunity. A Brookings Institution, a policy-study group with ties to the Democratic leaders now controlling the White…
Descriptors: Energy, Research and Development, Research Universities, Federal Aid
Kirschner, Ann – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Surely "massive open online course" (MOOC) has one of the ugliest acronyms of recent years, lacking the deliberate playfulness of Yahoo (Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) or the droll shoulder shrug suggested by the word "snafu" (Situation Normal, All Fouled Up). The author is not a complete neophyte to online…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Adult Learning, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
