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...University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt an open-access requirement—the first ever at a university. While the policy mandates that professors provide their scholarly articles to the University’s online repository, professors will able to request a waiver to opt out of the project. The primary arguments in favor of open access for scholarly literature written by faculty and students are both pragmatic and ideological, according to Grant W. Dasher ’09, one of the leaders of the Free Thesis Project. He added that there is a need...
Losing more than $1.6 million a day, Alitalia said in February that its cash reserves had dropped to $263 million. With money rapidly running out, and no good offers on the table, the board may well opt for filing bankruptcy to stave off creditors and force lay-offs and an organizational overhaul. Italian officials say most service would likely continue while the financial restructuring is underway...
...modern”; Chem 5 lectures were being uploaded in 1998). Yet, fast-forward 10 years, and lecture videotaping is a highly underutilized teaching tool. Most large Harvard classrooms are fully equipped to videotape lectures, a service provided seamlessly at faculty request. Still, many professors choose not to opt in, often arguing that online lecture videos incentivize lower class attendance and abstractly decrease overall learning. But anyone who has sat through a large lecture here knows that “class participation” is usually left to that one kid in the front row who likes to point...
...willful withholding of this opt-in teaching tool is paternalistic, and reflects an inaccurate conception of reality on the part of professors. For some students, watching lectures online at their leisure when they are not tired, sick, or hungry—coupled with the ability to pause and rewind a video—could actually aid in learning...
...savings plans. Some 30% of people eligible for such plans fail to sign up, even though companies often match contributions--free money, as it were. As a result of Thaler's work, many firms have switched to automatic enrollment. In the language of Nudge, the plans have moved from "opt in" to "opt out." That turns people's inertia-like tendency to stick with the default option--whether or not it's a good one--into an advantage...