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The temporal rhythm of academic life in a globalizing era

The globalization of higher education and research is associated with a wide variety of shifts and changes, many of which...

ABC's and PhD's: Stuff

I didn’t write last week because I was overwhelmed in getting ready for our annual migration west. We spend the...

Does This Make Me Transhuman?

An acquaintance who was a mid-level IT manager likes to remind me, every time I say I resist technology, that...

Scarcity and Course Design

I'm reading Clay Shirky's amazing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (have you downloaded it...

Disloyalty?

According to this story from IHE, a provost lost her job after her President found out that she had applied...

The Year-Later Evaluation

Several alert readers sent me this piece from the Washington Post. It glosses a study conducted at the Air Force...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Summer Jobs

The summer after my junior year of high school I got a summer job in a resort town in Maine...

ScreenFlow + YouTube = Quick/Robust Feedback

I've become enamored with tools that allow us to have rich, non-text based, communications with our students. If these tools...