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5 Benefits Of Officeless EdTech Leadership
I have a colleague who does not have an office. He is an an edtech leadership role in higher education, with over 20 years of experience managing a large and complex organization. During the time in which I have known this edtech leader he has had a couple of different offices throughout his campus, as his responsibilities are distributed across a number of units.
Looking at Zoom.us For Synchronous Online Learning
What platform do you use for synchronous online learning? Adobe Connect? Blackboard Collaborate? WebEx? GoToMeeting? BigBlueButton? Skype? Google Hangouts? A new startup, Zoom.us, is determined to shakeup this market.
The NPR Model for Higher Ed
The idea to use NPR as model for how higher ed could change is not my own. I heard the analogy of how higher ed could evolve to mimic the NPR model from a colleague at a conference, and the idea has stuck in my head. (Perhaps you have heard the analogy before?).
3 Reasons to Love "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"
We have too few books that feature designers who work in 24 hour (potentially magical) bookstores who can program in Ruby and who are obsessed with fantasy literature and data visualization.
Reading "Debt, Jobs, Diversity" on a Kindle Paperwhite and iPhone
Have you downloaded the IHE survey Debt, Jobs, Diversity and Who Gets In: A Survey of Admissions Directors?
3 Reasons Why I'd Choose the Kindle Paperwhite Over an iPad
My Kindle $119 Kindle Paperwhite with $39.99 persimmon leather cover arrived today. I'm already reading more. This is a beautiful device.
Chandrasekaran's "Little America"
If you read (or place in your syllabus) only one book this year about the U.S. war in Afghanistan, then Little America should be it.
Thoughts About the Dept. of Ed Symposium
This past Monday I attended the Innovation to Drive Productivity in Postsecondary Education meeting sponsored by the The Department of Education that Paul Fain describes in his 10/2 IHE article. I'm writing this post in an effort to respond to some of the comments to Fain's article.