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Following the Lead of McGraw-Hill's Brian Kibby
We can debate Brian Kibby's vision that higher ed should go completely digital in 36 months. Many of us have already commented on his essay "Digital Deadline", and I'm sure that you will have some strong opinions as well when you go back and read his piece and the subsequent discussion.
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3 Reasons Why I Miss Teaching
I am one of those higher ed administrators who started my career in teaching. Relatively quickly I moved from a full-time faculty gig to the start-up life, and then into educational technology.
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Reading "Willpower"
Willpower deserves a much bigger cultural footprint than it has so far enjoyed. Some books end up making appearances in all sorts of conversations, spoken about by a diverse range of smart colleagues and friends. Willpower was not one of those books. It deserves to be.
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How Bates College Proactively Tackles Classroom A/V Failures
A Q&A about how one college prevents A/V failures.
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3 Higher Ed Questions Inspired by TEDBooks
What can we learn in higher ed from the new TEDBooks initiative? I have no idea, but I do have some questions:
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5 Reasons For TED To Lower TEDbook Subscription Pricing
Probably the closest that I'll get to being invited to give a TED Talk is Chris Anderson tweeting about something that I wrote. Last week, in response to my critique that $14.99 is too expensive for a 6 book / 3 month TED book subscription (through TED's new iOS app), Chris tweeted from @TEDchris, "Is $15 too much for 22 short, multimedia enabled books?! http://bit.ly/NNXitg http://bit.ly/Njqo1c"
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Celebrating 'The End of Money'
Currency is truly an anachronism. We continue to hold on to our paper money and our coins because - well because why?
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What Does the "Twilight of the Elites" Mean to Elite Higher Ed?
My wife and I were both born in 1969. Here is a short list of debacles, missteps, and failures that we've witnessed in our time on the planet: stagflation, the energy crisis (gas lines), the tech bubble, the 2nd Iraq war, the housing bubble, and the great recession (and you can add to this list). Another way we could describe the past 40 or so years, if feeling negative, could be: rising inequality, stagnant real wages, rapid increases in health care and education costs, growth in structural unemployment/underemployment, and political polarization and ineffectiveness in the face of these challenges.