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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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5 Ways That Campus MOOC Initiatives Impact Local Residential Learning
Are you part a MOOC at your school? Have you taught, developed, TA’d, facilitated, designed, filmed, edited, assessed or communicated about an open online course at your college or university? The most vocal opinions on MOOCs seem to belong to those who have never worked on a MOOC. Let’s give the practitioners a chance to talk about their experiences. Here are 5 ways that I have observed how creating and teaching MOOCs can impact residential teaching and learning:
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Mao’s MOOC Rehabilitation
EdX, provider of massive open online courses, hosts an assortment of offerings on Chinese history. There's The Study of Folklore from Peking University, a look at international politics from Seoul National University and a five-part series on everything from aristocratic culture to neo-Confucianism from Harvard University.
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Government to Expand Program to Forgive Student Loan Debt
The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it would expand its program to forgive federal student loan debt to thousands more students who attended programs of Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit education companies. Earlier this year, the department said that tens of thousands of students who had attended Heald College, Corinthian campuses mostly in California, were eligible for immediate processing of requests for debt relief.
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Does Violence Lurk in Psychopath’s Brains?
Adrian Raine of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying neurocriminology.
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College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly
Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of 2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous year's cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
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Find Out What Happens When You Give Up Sleep for Days
Namni Goel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the effects of sleep deprivation on the body aside from fatigue.
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Black Students Don’t Matter
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is cited for highlighting racist incidents on college campuses in 2014.
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Rate of International Students Studying in the U.S. Skyrockets
Nearly one million international students studied at colleges and universities in the United States in 2014-15, according to the 2015 Open Doors Report on International Education Exchange (IIE). The report, released on Monday, found that the numbers of international students in the United States jumped by more than 10 percent since 2013-14, the greatest rate of growth in 35 years. The United States maintains its lead over other countries in terms of attracting the greatest proportion of international students to its academic institutions.
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More Time on Transparency
Nancy Hirschmann of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the importance of transparency in academic research.
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U. Minnesota Student Government Votes Against Annual 9/11 Ceremony; Some Didn’t Want to Spread Islamophobia
A resolution to honor the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks each year at the University of Minnesota was rejected by the student government there, with some students expressing concern that such a measure could foster “Islamaphobia.” The resolution noted that the attack still has a lasting effect on many on campus, and “the events of that date are of immeasurable importance to the world we live in today,” and that the university has no formal memori