This is the first in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Right now, this very morning, thousands of young adults in the United States are scrambling through the same minor hell. They've woken up to the very last in a series of half-futile phone alarms. Made, and likely...
On July 1, 1742, German scientist, satirist and Anglophile Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born. He is remembered best for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modeled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and his aphorisms.
On June 22, 1767, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was born. He was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin. He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education. In particular, he is widely recognized as having been the architect of the Prussian education system which was used as a model for education systems in countries such as the United States and Japan.
von Thomas Pfeil - Artikel über Erfahrungen mit drei Wikis an drei Hochschulen, den ich gemeinsam mit Steffen Büffel aus Trier (net-wiki.de) und Sebastian Schmalz aus Münster (kowiki.uni-muenster.de) schreibe.
von Andreas Köster. Was in den USA längst gang und gäbe ist, hält in der deutschen Forscherszene erst allmählich Einzug: Die Wissenschaftskommunikation via Online-Tagebuch. Das Potenzial so genannter 'Forschungs-Weblogs' ist unbestritten. Es gilt all