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Improvement in Higher Education, Circa 1912

One of my great interests is reading books from the early 1900s that describe the troubles in higher education and the means by which people thought to eliminate problems and improve processes. The...

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Final Exams, Final Mistake

A recent op-ed article in my university’s student-run newspaper, written by a soon-to-be graduating senior, questioned the wisdom of cumulative final exams (click here to read the article).  It’s great...

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Higher Education’s Ultimate Failure

Who would have ever thought that tenure’s undoing in public higher education would be caused by higher education’s failure to achieve one of its most fundamental objectives: Teach people how to think...

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Handmade Visual Controls

In a previous blog post, “Final Exams, Final Mistake,” I described how students in my courses make two types of visual controls to help them remember and apply what they learned. One visual control is...

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Professor Emiliani’s “Nos” for Teaching

Kaizen is practical method for improving any processes, and thus it can also be applied to the design and delivery of courses. In order for kaizen to be effective, kaizen participants must be given...

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It’s Time for Colleges to Cut Costs

Higher education thought leader Jeffrey J. Selingo has a new thought: It’s time for colleges to cut costs. Hasn’t this been obvious for the last 10 or 20 years? (See my 2005 article, “Lean in Higher...

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Feedforward to Students

Professors typically give lots of feedback to students over a semester to help them learn and improve. Professors, however, often complain about the feedback that students give concerning the...

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Excellence in Teaching

Excellence in teaching? Not quite. The results of the U.K.s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) have been released. Click here to view the results of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze university awards...

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The Toxic University

John Smyth, the author of The Toxic University, talks about his book in this interesting article: “Author discusses ideas in his new book, ‘The Toxic University’” (IHE, 12 July 2017) My key takeaway is...

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Creative Graduation Ceremony

My father, Cesare Emiliani (Dott., Ph.D), was a long-time chair of the Geology department at the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida. He was a creative, outgoing, and fun person who applied his...

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