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Math Geek Mom: Parenting and Teaching
When people learn that I am both a full professor of Mathematics and an Economist who studies the economics of nonprofit organizations, they are often confused. “What do you teach?” is the common question that follows, to which there is a quick answer, a short answer and a long answer.
Ask a Stupid Question: Why is there so much anonymity when it comes to the practices of academic discourse?
The first in a series of stupid questions I'm asking because I don't know the answers.
Conventional Wisdom Is Killing Us
Liberal arts colleges should stop listening to experts’ gloomy predictions and calls for efficiency, and focus on building relationships with students, Mark Putnam writes.
Clippy’s Revenge
When did Microsoft Word become such a lumbering, bloated behemoth?
MOOC SYNTHESIZER - VI
Inside Higher Ed reports on the predictable growth of MOOCs at America's leading universities, many of whose professors are as interested as UD was when she was approached by Udemy's Faculty Project (her MOOC on poetry is on its way to 250 students from around the world - far short of thousands, but we're just getting started here).
Foundations of Strategy, Part 2: Supply
As a continuation on the Foundations of Strategy theme, this post is about the supply of educational opportunities. In short, they’re exploding.
A Grander Bargain
For the foreseeable future, this blog will be the last in my little trilogy of comments related to a discussion last week with network, content owners and higher education folks in D.C. It is my proposal for a Grander Bargain.
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Food Fright
A new book on food panics puts the "pink slime" scare into perspective. Scott McLemee is what he eats.
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