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First Year Focus-Understanding Student Choices
September is upon us and with the beginning of another academic year comes a fresh crop of undergraduate students jostling...
Listservs and the "Unsubscribe me" Meme
Initially, this post was going to be titled: "If you've ever sent "unsubscribe" to a listserv, please break the glass...
Google, Motorola, and Our Nationwide Bandwidth Market Failure
I've been mulling over the Google $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobile. The consensus on the rationale for the purchase...
International student mobility highlights in the OECD's Education at a Glance 2011
Education at a Glance 2011 was released today by the OECD. The report is replete with data about education systems...
Patriot Act: Technology and Jurisprudence
[This blog post is the second in a third on the Patriot Act article extract.] Because Internet communications are “electronic,”...
Definition: The Whoopsydoodle School
Amateurs, novices, and undergraduates who espouse the aesthetic of the infantile: Everything they make must be regarded as art because...
Ask the Administrator: Integrity of Integrity Policies
A returning correspondent writes: Our current academic integrity policy results in a student failing a course if they are caught...
How to Hack Academic Book Publishing in Two (Not So) Easy Steps
The book based on the Hacking the Academy project is now online and soon will be available in print from...