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Brad Wuetherick

@bwuetherick.bsky.social

Métis Scholar of Higher Ed Teaching and Learning; Director, Teaching & Learning @ Capilano University; once Medieval Historian; Fellow with the Gardner Institute; Dad/Husband; Gamer (of the tabletop or board variety)

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Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 2w ago

As a higher ed finance person, I keep emphasizing that more students are enrolling in high cost of educating fields like health and engineering and fewer in lower-cost fields like the humanities. This squeezes institutional budgets as cross-subsidies disappear.

Report: Humanities Majors Disappearing

Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · last mo.

Thankfully Turnitin's planned change in terms to use all student content for AI development has been forced back. But the big Q remaining is: How did getting a degree from universities worldwide become conditional on students agreeing to the end user licence agreement of an *edtech company*?

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · last mo.

My #DigitalFriday finds are 1. An alarming change in policy by Turnitin, who are apparently shifting to keeping all input as data for training their ML, no opt-out available (could be hugely problematic f.ex for PhD students putting in unpublished chapters...) bsky.app/profile/link...

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo ago

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

Brad Wuetherick@bwuetherick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Grade inflation can be real and be worth responding to … but not like this! This would be demoralizing for faculty who truly care about teaching, refine pedagogies to help students’ learning, and thoughtfully design meaningful assessments! And this penalizes students who deserve the grade!

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Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7mo ago

very funny to me to see folks who have no social media presence outside of twitter say you have to be on twitter to be influential