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The Banality of Textbooks
There have been several news items this week about textbooks -- not surprising since we're well into the back-to-school season. And despite all the hype and promise for innovation that digital content was meant to bring about, the news is pretty ordinary: it's mostly about cost savings. As such, are we being limited by our preconceived notions of what textbooks are meant to be?
Metaphorically Speaking
When it comes to change driven by digital opportunities, it seems a lot of the proposed solutions simply trade one problem for a new one.
Maintain Your Lit Review, Maintain Your Sanity
Ask any graduate student about their Lit Review and each would have a few not so pleasant things to say about the process. Fellow GradHacker Andrea Zellner previously wrote about ways to survive a Lit Review, but what happens when you’ve survived and the Lit Review is no longer your biggest priority?
Reverse Transfers
Did you know that community colleges don’t just send transfer students; they also receive them? It’s true. But the entire policy world doesn’t seem to know that.
The Triumph of the Ephemeral
About a month ago my colleagues and I moved back into our old building. For slightly more than a year, we’ve been housed in a collection of offices around campus as our own department was rebuilt after a devastating fire.
Reading "Willpower"
Willpower deserves a much bigger cultural footprint than it has so far enjoyed. Some books end up making appearances in all sorts of conversations, spoken about by a diverse range of smart colleagues and friends. Willpower was not one of those books. It deserves to be.
Impure genius (the best kind)
So I'm struggling with the process of getting my mind around all the aspects of socio-economic sustainability. Lots of good reading, resulting in lots of references to lots more books and articles, some of which will doubtless soon appear in these ramblings.
Pagination
Pagination
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