We will be making use of a variety of information resources in this course, including design and education journals, books, web sites, and videos. On this page, we'll provide links to a variety of resources, and we'll try to grow our collection of useful stuff as the semester progresses.
Educational Design and Education in the News
How One Top College Ended a Policy That Weeded Out Poor Students, Jon Marcus, The Huffington Post, December 18, 2015.
Betsy DeVos' Graduation Rate Mistake. nprEd, February 4, 2017.
Jerry Falwell’s New Higher-Ed Task Force Could Take Cues From a Private-College Association’s Playbook. Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2, 2017.
Little Girls Doubt that Women Can Be Brilliant, Study Shows. AP, January 26, 2017. While we're on the topic of gendered conceptions of "brilliance," check out this Science article:
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, Science, Vol. 347 No. 6219, January 2015.
Five Education Stories to Watch in 2017, NPREd, January 3, 2017
Journals and Magazines
A long list of education journals available through Olin's library
Books and e-documents: On Educational Design
Books and e-documents: On Education
Books and e-documents: On Design
Web-Based Content