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Google Trends, released back in 2006, is Google’s free tool that allows you to see the interest over time for any search term you choose. What can we explore about higher ed trends using this tool?

Well, the title should get you started reading, right?

The Presidential Debate at Hofstra went off without a hitch and more importantly will clearly be a significant moment in terms of who will be the next President of the United States.

As someone who is pursuing a deferred dream later in life, I got a kick out of this piece about Heidi Hansen, a 42-year-old nursing student at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, who is a finalist for the school's Homecoming Queen.

The $249 chromebook is the best idea I’ve heard all week. It seems like the chromebook is finally moving from...

This might sound naive, but digital humanities provides three things that my current position within higher education does not.

A colleague sent me a note today wondering if the news of for-profit EDU financial difficulties and the concurrent rise of the massively open online courses (MOOCs) are related. Correlation or causality?

I am opting out. Not out of my career, but out of the educational system. I have a seven year old who started second-grade this year. A few weeks into second-grade, we decided to finally act on a decision that’s been a long time coming. We decided we’re going to home-school her – at least for this year.