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Stanford's experiment this fall, offering 3 computer science courses online for free, appears to have been wildly successful, and the school plans to offer more courses next term. Will this program change how we think about opencourseware?

While giving the closing keynote for the NASPA Western Regional Conference last month, I mentioned that one of the frequently used reasons for why some people do not use Twitter is because so many people use the platform to talk about the weather. This particular NASPA event was in San Diego. In November, in sunny San Diego, the weather was joyfully discussed by several conference attendees. We talk about the weather during our face-to-face conversations with one another all of the time.

Why hasn’t the Great Recession triggered a massive restructuring of American higher ed yet?

We just had our annual “Four Families” holiday dinner. My husband says this name makes us sound like a crime syndicate or something, but it’s the affectionate way in which we refer to four families who met when our oldest children were in kindergarten together.

They're not perfect, but neither am I.

Less than a month ago, I returned from a working visit to Hong Kong. I benefited from a scholarship awarded...

YouTube announced YouTube for Schools today, a variant of YouTube designed to be more education friendly.

In this post, Andrea Zellner talks about how to deal with the stress of grad school over the holidays. Whether it be that you are agnostic about the holiday season or not, there really seems to be no escaping it. With campus closing down for next few weeks, the pressures build as we prepare for gift giving, traveling, and generally surviving the holidays. On Monday, Amy Rubens gave us some sage advice about how best to prevent potential mishaps that result when leaving our grad school homes for our homes of origin. While troubleshooting is one excellent way to handle and prevent some of the stress associated with this time of year, I believe there are particular stresses that are come with being a graduate student at the holidays.