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How an Open Office, the Cloud, an iPhone, and a MacBook Air Changed How I Work
Each year I find myself increasingly mobile and virtual, working all the time but seldom in a single workplace.
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The NYTimes Highlights the EdTech Opportunity
Who are the media companies dipping into the education business? They include: Discovery (the cable TV company), News Corp, NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney.
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A Recommendation and Some Questions About 'The Violinist's Thumb'
The Violinist's Thumb does for DNA what Sam Kean's first book, The Disappearing Spoon, did for the periodic table. He is able to transform what could be difficult and dry scientific concepts into compelling narratives driven by a series of larger than life personalities.
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'Monkey Mind' Goes to College
I used to think that I was a worrier. I worry about my family, my job, my country, and the growing gap between consumer and enterprise educational platforms. But after reading Daniel Smith's very funny and informative memoir of anxiety, Monkey Mind, I have come to realize that I'm an amateur when it comes to worrying.
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6 Ideas for How Small EdTech Startups Can Gain Visibility
This afternoon I participated in an excellent demo from Groopex, a startup that provides seamless WebEx integration and value added features to Moodle (and hopefully soon Blackboard as well).
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Can Higher Ed Leapfrog Apple & Amazon in the Mobile Content Experience?
We constantly worry about the widening experience gap between consumer and education enterprise technologies.
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Why the Tuition and "The Rent is Too Damn High"
Matthew Yglesias has zero to say about higher ed and the price of tuition in his excellent Kindle Single The Rent is Too Damn High. This oversight (doesn't everyone relate everything to higher ed?) should not stop us generalizing some of Yglesias' conclusions to our world.
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Doonesbury on For-Profit Higher Ed
It is not possible to overstate the degree to which Doonesbury defines the cultural milieux from which so many of us in higher education and associated knowledge industries are drawn from. How many of you have Doonesbury cartoons taped up to your office door? Raise your hand if Doonesbury is the first thing you look for in your morning paper.