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Politics, pedagogy, the press and professors (a prickly post)
Thanks to Terry Calhoun for stating briefly what I will now attempt to say with excruciating verbosity. I've been thinking...
The Purposes of Learning Technology
--To challenge the status quo in teaching and learning. --To make big classes act and feel like seminars. --To help...
Ask My Readers: Getting Out of Dodge
A longtime correspondent writes: Something that may spark some responses from your readers. One of the things about our campus...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Thinking about my students
Last month Aeron Haynie's piece on "taking students personally" hit home for me. One of the great pleasures of teaching...
Why Jing to Twitter Matters
Nobody gets the power of small pieces loosely joined better than TechSmith. I've been playing with its newest Jing feature...
An IHE Book Club?
Inside Higher Ed should start a virtual book club. This idea came to me after finishing Googled: The End of...
The Blonde Girl
On Saturday I took The Boy to a competition of various clubs of kids his age. His club was there...
'With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them'
Last week, Public Agenda released a report exploring the reasons why only 20 percent of young adults at two-year institutions...