Inspirational teaching: since when did entertainment not matter?

Via the Learning and Teaching Hub at Guardian.co.uk, by James Derounian Monday 1 October 2012 13.10 BST. To those who argue that humour, enthusiasm or creative energy have no place in the learning… Lees verder →

Next meeting: December 4, 2012 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.

in classroom 06A34 at our Kohnstammhuis location

(a bit) off-topic: Universities and the Urban Growth Machine

Andrew Ross – October 4, 2012 Why has the price tag of an American college degree skyrocketed (500 percent in the public sector since 1985) in recent decades? Instructional cost is not one… Lees verder →

Your Dreams

Press play, go fullscreen (under “more”) and use the arrows on your keyboard to forward through the Prezi

For the enthusiasts: Monthly etymology gleanings, September.

Anatoly Liberman is the author of Word Origins…And How We Know Them as well as An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. His column on word origins, ‘The Oxford Etymologist’, appears on… Lees verder →