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A long calendar week comes to a summery, sunny conclusion! 
 
Development news: Once more: Does assistance work?! Media & republic inwards Afghanistan; Cameroon’s ‘auntie army’; do women inwards Latin America acquire empowered past times microfinance? Traveling inwards Uganda; the problem alongside medical voluntourism; RCTs-it’s complicated; One Belt, One Road & questions of economical empowerment; private safety & inequality; how UNDP Eurasia communicates; C4D for vaccination; Read-of-the-week: my misfortunate woman bring upwardly wasn’t trash. 
 
Our digital lives: Switching the lens on service & serving; the ideas industry. 
 
Publications: Management inwards a neoliberal world; alive poor, cash inwards one's chips young. 
 
Academia: Why haven’t MOOCs replaced professors? Flipping the classroom the correct way.

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Revolution in addition to Authoritarianism inwards North Africa (book review)

There were a brace of reasons why I selected Frédéric Volpi’s mass for review.
First, Volpi is looking at Algeria, Libya, Kingdom of Morocco in addition to Tunisia-four various societies in addition to political systems that experienced really dissimilar ‘revolutions’/revolutions inwards 2011.
Second, he is adopting a macro-analytical perspective in addition to is less concerned alongside ethnographic details of ‘the streets’. And quite frankly, the 3rd ground was that books published past times Hurst are ordinarily interesting, readable in addition to well-edited contributions to cast my ain thinking in addition to teaching.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It provides enough of nutrient for thought in addition to give-and-take in addition to volition for sure brand a really expert introductory text for students earlier they initiative of all discussing the countries, societies in addition to revolutionary dynamics inwards to a greater extent than detail. Volpi’s mass also makes a really of import contribution to the emerging ground on how ‘we’, especially inwards academia, quest to proceed alongside nuanced in addition to careful analysis every bit mediatized events gain momentum in addition to audio bites supersede complex reflections.
Especially the political scientific discipline in addition to international relations community also needs to acknowledge how express their ability of prediction actually is when contested spaces are re-negotiated.

Development news
Inequality: Live poor, cash inwards one's chips young

The Death Gap presents a Marxian stance of inequality every bit a societal illness that inwards plough produces biological disease, dispersed differentially across the sociopolitical hierarchy. Although he is a physician, Ansell uses metaphorical linguistic communication that may stump readers inwards biomedical fields. Moving beyond epidemiological frameworks that model what would tumble out to an private exposed to a unmarried causal factor, Ansell weaves a much to a greater extent than complicated story, inwards which structures of disadvantage ship upon every measuring of the procedure of survival. The Death Gap provides an overarching framework for agreement the beginning crusade of ethno-racial in addition to economical disparities inwards illness that seamlessly weaves together the really best inquiry inwards epidemiology, populace health, medical sociology, wellness policy in addition to psychology.

Abigail A. Sewell for Nature reviews The Death Gap.

Academia
Why Haven't MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?

What MOOCs can’t do is mentor, coach, guide, in addition to connect. The exercise of the professor is inwards business office to profess - but inwards much larger business office to educate. The educator / learner human relationship at the middle of all high lineament postsecondary teaching tin give the sack no to a greater extent than move scaled than whatever other crucial human relationship. MOOCs receive got thrown into precipitous relief only how valuable an teaching is that is built upon relationships. If a MOOC replaces a course, in addition to then maybe that course of instruction should move replaced.

Joshua Kim for Inside Higher Ed alongside only about interesting suggestions on why MOOCs receive got non (yet?) 'disrupted' teaching every bit fundamentally every bit only about may receive got thought. I shout back MOOCs when used good tin give the sack proceed to move a expert marketing tool: 'If you lot liked this overview, why non sign upwardly for more?'. I also shout back that MOOCs tin give the sack move integrated into regular courses, thereby creating to a greater extent than incentives for completing the course of instruction in addition to getting proper credits if non degrees. But the pith concern model of higher teaching is nonetheless working reasonably well...

Flipping, active learning in addition to the post-truth era

Active learning continues to emerge every bit practise in addition to nosotros are going to detect it difficult going at times, exactly because at that spot volition non move whatever ane path. Students quest to move business office of helping brand this tumble out in addition to the most profitable way of doing that is past times making them genuine stakeholders inwards the process. That agency bringing them inwards at the curriculum blueprint stage, talking alongside throughout the delivery stage close running adjustments in addition to debriefing afterwards.
If post-truth has taught us anything, in addition to then it’s that passionate commitment counts for a lot. We’re passionate close making L&T function better, thus let’s exercise that together all the other academic values nosotros hold, to number change.

Simon Usherwood for Active Learning inwards Political Science on the challenges of making 'flipped' classrooms work.