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Watch Out For These 3 Mistakes You’re Making During Distance Teaching

If there’s one thing everyone can agree on from this past spring, it’s that distance learning is challenging. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-08-27-watch-out-for-these-3-mistakes-you-re-making-during-distance-teaching kora_sun / Shutterstock

By Jessica Flack and Melanie Mitchell

Uncertain Times

The pandemic is an unprecedented opportunity – seeing human society as a complex system opens a better future for us all https://aeon.co/essays/complex-systems-science-allows-us-to-see-new-paths-forward The view towards Milano Centrale station down via Vittor Pisani during lockdown, 29 March 2020. Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket/Getty

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College Is Everywhere Now

Yale students in Barbados. Michigan students in Brooklyn. Berkeley students in Las Vegas? Off-campus housing is way off-campus now. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/style/college-collab-houses-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage A group of Grinnell students have formed their own off-campus housing group in Utah.Credit...Lindsay D'Addato for The New York Times

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Schools Can Reopen, Germany Finds, but Expect a ‘Roller Coaster’

With nations determined to return to in-person learning, many will have trouble matching Germany’s formula: fast and free testing, robust contact tracing and low community spread. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/world/europe/germany-schools-virus-reopening.html

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Social Creativity: Making All Voices Heard

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d87e/2c3684da038afc99bb6d76a145292ddf8f95.pdf

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Google’s Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius

Google's new 'career certificate' program is just the right thing, at just the right time. https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/google-career-certificates-plan-disrupt-college-degree-university-genius.html

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The Disciplinary Trench

What if there were no academic departments? David V. Rosowsky and Bridget M. Keegan explore the possibilities. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/08/18/what-if-there-were-no-academic-departments-opinion

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As U-Va. prepares to open online amid pandemic

As U-Va. prepares to open online amid pandemic, university president says: ‘If things change with the virus, we’re going to have to change’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/as-u-va-prepares-to-open-online-amid-pandemic-university-president-says-its-still-too-early-to-just-give-up-on-the-entire-semester/2020/08/18/1dee2264-d759-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html?hpid=hp_local1-8-12_uva-mag-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

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Universities Move Classes Online to Prevent Campus Coronavirus Spread

Colleges pivot as U.S. reports more than 44,000 new cases; Michigan State, Notre Dame among those switching plans https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-news-08-19-2020-11597825401

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‘Frats Are Being Frats’: Greek Life Is Stoking the Virus on Some Campuses

Universities are struggling with how to prevent tightly packed sorority and fraternity houses from turning into virus clusters. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/coronavirus-fraternities-sororities.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Lab Co-Design Project https://celta.msu.edu/co-design/

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Catching and killing of airborne SARS-CoV-2 to control spread of COVID-19 by a heated air disinfecti

Catching and killing of airborne SARS-CoV-2 to control spread of COVID-19 by a heated air disinfection system A heated air disinfection system was fabricated based on commercial Ni foams.

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Coronavirus: Inside a reopened primary school in the time of Covid-19

Primary children in Denmark have been back at school for a month now. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-52649919

By Greg Levinsky

Sale of Unity College campus not imminent, but could have appeal

Buyers or developers, including some from other states, might have interest in the site for a variety of uses, according to experts. https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/08/16/sale-of-unity-college-campus-not-imminent-but-could-have-appeal/

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As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost

Schools face rising demands for tuition rebates, increased aid and leaves of absence as students ask if college is becoming “glorified Skype.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/covid-college-tuition.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Colleges Are Learning Another Covid-19 Lesson: Prohibiting Parties Will Be Futile

Many colleges are prohibiting parties as a condition for students returning to campus this fall semester. It's not likely to turn out well. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/08/13/colleges-are-learning-another-covid-19-lesson-prohibiting-parties-will-be-futile/#494874d9646a

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Proposed Merger Blurs the Line Between For-Profit Colleges and Public Universities

Unpacking a complicated deal between the University of Arizona and a scandal-plagued online education company. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/upshot/university-of-arizona-ashford-zovio-online-college.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=The%20Upshot

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Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators!

American universities are not having their finest hour, partly because of Covid-19. But even after the pandemic, they will be weaker and less consequential than they were a decade or even a generation or two ago. Why? Who is to blame? https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2020/08/03/who-is-ruining-our-universities--administrators/#60db7a514df6

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3 Things Covid-19 Will End In Higher Ed

College Covid questions are about to be answered. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2020/08/02/3-things-covid-19-will-end-in-higher-ed/#1b2c347f5f83

By Frank Bruni

How to Go to College During a Pandemic

Students at Minerva spend four years entirely online. Is this the future of higher education? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/opinion/sunday/minerva-college-coronavirus.html

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