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An Academic Pentathlon in Sydney: 10 Years After the Olympics
I am not going to dismiss it with “Oh. I don't know how it really happened.” I know exactly how...
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What the Copyright Ruling Means
A new ruling from the United States Copyright Office that is making the rounds in higher education and blogosphere circles...
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Rethinking Research "Productivity"
A recent blog post at the University of Venus, “ When Tenure Disappears,” argues that PhD training is limited to...
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Teaching With Blogs
Lanny Arvan considers the lessons for an instructor on issues of openness, privacy and writing.
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George Orwell, Web Stats, and Your Site Visitors
I am a self-identified web stats addict. I love logging in to Google Analytics and checking out the web stats...
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Academic Fraud and the Academic Culture in China — and Asia
When The Economist (July 24-30, 2010, p. 43), one of the world’s most influential magazines, devotes attention to academic fraud in China, the issue has reached a high level of international attention. I wrote about this issue in the broader context of Asia’s efforts to gain global academic leadership in my article “Enter the Dragons? Not so Fast” (Times Higher Education, June 17, 2010, pp. 38-39). The Economist points to a number of egregious examples of academic dishonestly, plagiarism, misuse of academic degrees and awards in China.
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Enterprise vs. Consumer Learning Technologies
The 7/22 article in the NYTimes, "Windows Upgrade Helps Microsoft to a Record Quarter," got me thinking about enterprise vs...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: A Good Stage
Recently I’ve been remembering a conversation I had with my dad many years ago — when my husband and I...