The UNC System made it official on Dec. 19: all syllabuses that instructors create at constituent universities are now deemed public records — not instructors’ intellectual property and exclusive ...

The open floor plan, Ikea-style furnishing and bubbly atmosphere feel more like a Silicon Valley coworking space than a world class humanities center. At the Stanford Literary Lab, the desks might be ...

"Taken together, these actions codify a new era of classroom surveillance and risks trading the pursuit of academic depth for ...

Following recent national trends pushing for diversity in higher education materials, a University of Minnesota professor hopes more will utilize her website that tracks the diversity of professors’ ...

Despite a growing movement to glean insights from scholarly materials that are available online — from articles and data sets to conference presentations and lectures — one kind of academic document ...

A couple of weeks ago, I asked for examples of creative or interesting syllabuses that readers wanted to share. “Creative or interesting” is a pretty broad remit: while some of these syllabuses are ...

We’ve discussed accessibility issues before on ProfHacker, including accessibility in the classroom. But as I was designing my syllabuses* for Fall 2013, I realized that we’ve never talked about ...

Florida's teachers and college professors unions are challenging the state's decision to require state college instructors to publicly post course materials, a move trending in conservative states ...

NSW will not abandon an ambitious proposal to introduce new “untimed” syllabuses in schools, where students progress according to their ability rather than their age, but instead trial the concept on ...