Learning Innovation

Raise your hand if you are not on the tenure track, but long for the space and time to think, write, reflect, and create? I know that faculty do many many things beyond research and writing, (teaching, advising, service, etc.), but it is almost exclusively faculty who get to conduct research and publish results.

Committee work may be time intensive. And committee work might not be as relevant as we'd like for promotion. But committee work is not hard work.

This past weekend I went bowling, and I lost. 3 games to nil. My opponent - a 13 year old middle-schooler.

I have this hypothesis that edtech companies are overly worried about sharing their future product roadmaps, and that they would in fact benefit from being more transparent and inclusive in the development and sharing of future plans.

While Niall Ferguson's new book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, is mostly about the past, it true importance is what it says about our future. Nowadays it is hard not too worry about the future, as we struggle from one funding crisis to the next, watching resources for public investments (like education) erode.

My campus is in the middle of a strategic planning process, and I have the good fortune of participating in the "digital" working group.

Audrey Watters' post inspired me to spend some time building a new Coursekit site.

2011 was the year that I tried some Apple and Microsoft mashups. They failed.