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Learning Technologists and Campus Conversations
'"The idea of a "senior learning technologist" telling faculty that their syllabi should be made freely available is laughable." --Posted...
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Paying for College, Sometimes With Blood
Ann Larson’s recent IHE column, in which she dissects the popular idea that that a college education is the key...
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Memorial Day Appreciated
In addition to having a long weekend, Memorial Day should be appreciated for its original meaning. And during the actual...
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The Academic Love Affair
Eliza Woolf wonders how the lure of the professorial career seduces so many unemployed or underemployed Ph.D.s.
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The Solution They Won't Try
If public universities are really committed to promoting access, affordability, and quality, they should consider increasing their funding by accepting...
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Where the Streets are Paved with Crushed Candy
My sons and I didn’t drive three hours south over Memorial Day weekend to score candy; we went to see...
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A Google / Microsoft Educational Content Platform?
The marvelous Barbara Fister writes in our discussion yesterday about my argument that Google should provide a syllabus platform: "…..I...
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Math Geek Mom: Class Reunion
I have written in this column before about the concept of "opportunity cost." This topic from economics says that every...