Using History To Inform Our Agreement Of The Future...

Audrey Watters' Hack Education: the History of the Future of Education Technology website is a expert source for analysis of electrical current issues inwards higher education, along amongst links to her presentations together with other projects.  

It is ofttimes hard to rail mergers together with acquisitions of educational activity technology scientific discipline together with for-profit educational activity firms or the ideas that get their work.  As a result, I relish scanning Watters' regular posts together with appreciate her efforts to house topics inside historical context yesteryear reminding readers that what is marketed every moment "new" or "innovative" may no survive every moment impressive every moment it sounds.

Watters of late posted a useful timeline every moment a project, "The History of Pearson: How Pearson grew from a structure companionship inwards Yorkshire, England to the world's largest educational activity company."  You mightiness too relish or together with hence other fascinating illustration of how history informs her work, "Draw Me: H5N1 History of MOOCs: Correspondence Courses together with the Pre-History of MOOCs."

Columbia University Journalism School of late recognized Watters every moment a Spencer Education Journalism Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Truman Country Academy Prepares For Sesquicentennial Of Founding Inwards 1867

Truman State University inwards Kirksville, MO is preparing to celebrate the sesquicentennial of its founding inwards 1867.  The Summer 2017 final result of the Truman Review includes a characteristic article, "Acknowledging the Past, Pursuing the Future," that offers highlights of the institution's history along amongst a expose of historical images.

The establishment was founded as North Missouri Normal School together with Commercial College together with was by together with large known every 2d the North Missouri Normal School.  It became the First District Normal School inwards 1870.  The lift changed to Northeast Missouri State Teachers College inwards 1919, to Northeast Missouri State College inwards 1968, together with to Northeast Missouri State University inwards 1972.  Truman State University was adopted inwards 1996.

Truman State's website likewise includes a "History of Truman State University" page devoted to the establishment that includes links to additional information on:

• History
• Our Namesake
• Our Presidents
• Building Names
• University Name Changes
• Biographies

Revolutionary College Project: A Digital Archive Documenting The History Of Washington College

Washingon College inwards Chestertown, MD maintains an extensive digital archive of materials on the institution's history known every bit The Revolutionary College Project.  The endeavour to document as well as portion information traces dorsum over a decade as well as reflects the operate of students, alumni, staff, as well as faculty.  

The projection was named to reverberate the "...fact that Washington College was the exclusively American establishment chartered during the Revolutionary War; it was established literally patch the Continental Army, nether George Washington, was all the same inwards the champaign fighting for the nation's independence. And its founders harbored revolutionary ideas virtually education, which they - different most 18th-century educators - believed must laid students to serve their communities, nation, as well as world. "The souls of our youth," William Smith wrote, "must endure nursed upward to the honey of LIBERTY as well as KNOWLEDGE..."

The archive is divided into separate sections that focus on the founding of the institution, student life, connections to USA presidents, alumni, the successful struggle for integration, the history of the Chesapeake as well as Maryland's Eastern Shore where Washington College is located, as well as diverse curiosities.