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Summer's Labour's Lost
My sons and I hold a recurrent discussion about the reason school lets out in early June and resumes on...
Some Questions for Scitable
Have you checked out Scitable, a free online teaching/learning portal combining peer reviewed articles and teaching materials with social networking...
Reunion Butterflies
My 40th (yikes!) high school reunion is coming up, and my inbox has been clogged with correspondence about it —...
The OECD's AHELO: a PISA for higher education?
Greetings from Paris, one of the 'calculative centres' associated with the globalization of higher education. One of the key institutions...
LinkedIn-iQuette
Jessica Quillin presents a set of dos and don'ts for higher education professionals who venture onto the social networking site.
No Christianity Please, We're Academics
I had lunch this summer with a prospective graduate student at the evangelical college where I teach. I will call...
The $139 Kindle and the Academic Library
" If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge...
Math Geek Mom: What the Jesuits taught me about being a Mom
Patterns are central to math and statistics. If we add two of something to two more of that something, we...