Too Big to Know is a surprisingly small book (around 200 pages - you can sample an excerpt at The Atlantic) that covers a lot of ground, touching on issues of interest to anyone who wonders where knowledge is headed and what shape it is taking in this unstable era. The subtitle, written in the elevator pitch style that is so popular with publishers these days, provides a hint of what's inside: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room.
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Alma Mater
A new college president ponders liberal education and the changing landscape of academe.
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Blog U Special: Apple's Announcement
Our bloggers' posts on the technology giant's new venture in education. (And our team live blogged about the event, too: Click here.)
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StratEDgy
The StratEDgy blog is intended to be a thoughtful hub for discussion about strategy and competition in higher education.
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College Ready Writing
A blog about education, higher ed, teaching, and trying to re-imagine how we provide education.
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GradHacker
A Blog from GradHacker and MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online
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Hack (Higher) Education
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
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Minor Details
Insights on the college completion agenda, higher education policy, and institutional performance, from James T. Minor of the Southern Education Foundation.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Digital Tweed
Digital Tweed© is the work of Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project. If successful, these posts will inform and entertain, and at times also annoy. A little dissonance can be a good thing.
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Getting to Green
An administrator pushes, on a shoestring budget, to move his university and the world toward a more sustainable equilibrium.
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GlobalHigherEd
Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’
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Law, Policy -- and IT?
Tracy Mitrano explores the intersection where higher education, the Internet and the world meet (and sometimes collide).
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Library Babel Fish
A college librarian's take on technology
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Mama PhD
Mothers attempting to balance parenthood and academics.
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Provost Prose
A provost examines the world on campus and in higher ed.
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Reality Check
The Reality Check blog, from John V. Lombardi, follows the endlessly fascinating parade of criticism and defense of the higher education business.
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Statehouse Test
Statehouse Test is a weekly analysis of governors' inaugural and state-of-the-state addresses, and budgets, related to postsecondary education.
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Student Affairs and Technology
News, tips, and practical insights about technology for student affairs practitioners by Eric Stoller.
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Technology and Learning
A space for conversation and debate about learning and technology
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The Education of Oronte Churm
Looking for Radio Free AWP, the series of literary podcasts posted here the first week of February? See all of them at once at the Radio Free homepage. If you're new to the blog and want to know more about me, please click through to OronteChurm.com.
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A blog from the Center for International Higher Education
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University Diaries
A professor of English describes American university life.
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University of Venus
GenX Women in Higher Ed, Writing from Across the Globe
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GradHacker
February 9, 2012 - 10:50pm
The busy life of a grad student is often spent juggling multiple responsibilities from school, work and personal life. If you’re anything like me, you’re always finding yourself overcommitted to things and something has to drop to the wayside.
One of my goals has been to better manage my time and set up boundaries with my commitments. I’m not naturally a planner (big understatement!), but I’ve come to realize that if I’m not careful, things are just going to fall apart.
University of Venus
February 9, 2012 - 9:22pm
Academic conferences offer opportunities to test-run ideas before like-minded colleagues, to network, and to key into conversations within one’s discipline or specialization. For many academics, it’s an integral part of the job. In my University’s promotion system, considerable weight is given to presenting papers at academic conferences. Whether local, national or international, conferences provide venues for institutional promotion-- a chance to showcase research outputs from our little corner of the world.
Technology and Learning
February 9, 2012 - 9:10pm
Lately, I've had to become an expert at running projects outside of my expertise. I'm heading up a website project and a room A/V design projects, both subjects I know just enough about to be dangerous.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
February 9, 2012 - 8:58pm
This Marketplace report brought me up short. It’s about Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, endorsing gay marriage in New York. The report notes that CEO’s of major banks aren’t generally known for taking positions on potentially divisive social issues.
Mama PhD
February 9, 2012 - 8:22pm
There are many times in math that we encounter behavior that appears to repeat or cycle back on itself. For example, one often finds strings of repeating digits when trying to convert a rational number into a decimal, or one can observe cyclical behavior associated with the trigonometric functions. Such behavior came to mind recently as I realized that we are moving from winter into a spring that will eventually turn into summer, and that, as a mom, I needed to plan for such a change in seasons.
Getting to Green
February 9, 2012 - 7:10pm
Sometimes I'm so stupid I could kick myself.
Of course, before that kicking urge comes on, I have to realize my own stupidity -- have to, at least somewhat, realize my previous error. What triggered this personal epiphany (if that's the right word -- it wasn't a real "AHA!" moment, more like "ahhhh . . . . ummm . . . hunh?") was an advertising sign on the top of a taxi cab. The sign advertised a pizza place called "Paisano's", and my son asked me what the term "paisano" meant.
StratEDgy
February 8, 2012 - 9:52pm
Hats off to Kellogg! It’s rare to see a market leader remaking its up-to-this-point-wildly-successful business model, but this is exactly what the new Dean, Sally Blount, is doing.
Hack (Higher) Education
February 8, 2012 - 7:52pm
Blackboard unveiled a new UI today, something that certainly seems a response to not just user complaints but to the flood of new learning management systems entering the market. But is a UI change sufficient? A look at the Berlin-based iVersity shows a very different approach to thinking about what an online learning platform can be.
Student Affairs and Technology
February 8, 2012 - 7:24pm
Is digital identity development part of your institution's orientation program? It's understandable if it isn't. After all, orientation programs are generally at capacity and an extra addition to the schedule is nearly impossible. However, I suspect that eventually, digital identity development will be present at almost all orientation programs.
College Ready Writing
February 8, 2012 - 6:53pm
Don't think you can do anything meaningful to help adjuncts? Think again.
Law, Policy -- and IT?
February 8, 2012 - 3:55am
We do, because of the Internet and its intersection with business, law and people. All one has to do is read the newspaper to know it is true. Facebook seeks an public offering valued in the high billions.
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