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MARK MADOFF'S POSTMODERN SUICIDE

Emile Durkheim, the great French sociologist, tells us that there are four kinds of suicide. None of the four really...

This Year's Market Indicator

Over the past year, my college has advertised for both tenure-track faculty positions and administrative positions. (More of the former...

4 Reasons I'm Obsessed with Ed Tech Acquisitions

"Why are you beating this horse to death? I mean how many blog posts about Blackboard getting bought can you...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Grading Week, Procrastination, and Social Media

It may be exam week for my students — and my daughter — but it’s grading week for me. This...

Free Speech and the Internet

What do Amazon, Google, Facebook, I.S.P.s and most Internet corporations have in common? They are all private, for-profit corporations. What...

YouTube, WebEx and Blackboard

Acquiring Blackboard would make strategic sense for Google, Microsoft or Cisco. Price matters, and Blackboard is expensive at a market...

Cost-Effectiveness, or Cost?

Friday’s IHE did a story featuring a report by Douglas Harris and Sara Goldrick-Rab that’s well worth reading in its...

General Education Examined

My sister recently visited a physician in Manila who turned out to be a former undergraduate student of mine in...