“Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.” – Albert Einstein (http://www.pearsoned.com/education-blog/making-a-case-for-experiential-learning-in-higher-education/) As the Association for Experiential Education described, “experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused…
Category: Preparing the Future Professoriate
Community Engagement: University-Community Partnerships
Nowadays, we have seen colleges and universities linked to society more and more. Over the past decade, there have been various shifts in pedagogy and scholarship in higher education, including the shift towards university-community partnerships. In landscape architecture, the number…
Reframing Disability in higher education
When I start to look into this topic, I find AHEAD, Association on Higher Education and Disability. AHEAD is the premiere professional association committed to full participation of persons with disabilities in postsecondary education. Anyone that is interested in this…
Women in Higher Education in United States and China
When I came to this country, I heard about much more voice about women in higher education than I ever heard in China. As a woman in higher education, I started to develop interests in this field. I started to…
Tuition Change – Future of the University
I believe that the tuition policy should be changed in the future of the university of United States. When I first came to this country, I was so surprised by the tuition policy that there was a huge difference between…
Commitment: Short-term Exchange Study Abroad vs. Long-term Study Abroad
In higher education, there is a trend for students to study abroad. After reading a lot about reasons to study abroad, I agreed on the following ones based on my personal experience. Learning language. Getting a break from academic routine.…
Open Access: Freely Available to Wider Public with Permitted Reuse
Landscape and Urban Planning is a Peer reviewed scientific journal in our field. It is published by Elsevier. The co-editors-in-chief are Paul H. Gobster (USDA Forest Service) and W. N. Xiang (Global Institute for Urban and Regional Sustainability, East China…
Co-generation of Knowledge: Higher Education Faculty Teaching Use of Social Media
When I started to look in to the topic, how do higher education faculty use social media, I was specifically interested in how do they use social media in their teaching. I found that the year 2011 to the year…
Ethics Issues in Health Areas vs. Design Areas
Going through the case summaries on ORI scholarly integrity website, we can see all the cases in 2016 is related to health and human research field. Taking the first case of this year as example, Walker, Kenneth, a former postdoctoral…
Doubts Solving in Brief Description – Mission Statement Analysis
Mission statement of different institutions of higher education sounds fresh to me, an international student. I did a quick search after I first heard about it in the class, it turned out that in my country, China, and other Asian…