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Sustainable Parenting
What the current round of the Mommy Wars could mean for higher education.
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An Hour Well Spent
I've never really thought of Phoenix AZ as a sustainable city, for a whole lot of reasons like lack of water, phenomenal sprawl, constant need for air conditioning. If America is addicted to energy, Phoenix has traditionally had the biggest Jones of all. But things may be changing, perhaps in reaction to Andrew Ross's recent book Bird on Fire.
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What Keeps Us Awake At Night
We had another great discussion in the Strategy and Competition in Higher Education class last night, along with a very special guest speaker.
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Pineapples, Robot Graders, and Standardized Testing in Higher Ed
The day before the "Pineapple-gate" story broke -- that is, the nonsensical questions on the New York state eighth grade reading assessment -- The New York Times' David Brooks called for more standardized testing in colleges. Some thoughts on a future of pineapples and robot-graders.
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Long Distance Mom: Minerva’s Chances with my Son
As the school year winds to an end, many parents of high school seniors are making final decisions with their budding college freshman about where to attend college. Not so in my family. We are waiting with bated breath to see if my son Nick actually graduates. He’s developed an extensive case of high school burnout, and if it were not for the talents of his AP history teacher, Adam Gadnis, and Nick's ability to take some classes online, I don’t know if my son would be walking down the aisle and throwing up a cap in June.
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Mandatory Monogamy for Adjuncts?
This story in IHE generated quite the firestorm yesterday, and for good reason. Apparently, the Education School at the University of Southern California has decided to ban certain adjuncts from teaching at any other college or university as a condition of employment.
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4 Reasons Why the Bonk MOOC is So Interesting
Have you signed up for the Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success course?
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F2S: Conducting Conversations via Web-based Audio and Video
Job descriptions for Student Affairs professionals frequently list technology proficiency requirements. Most of the time, those requirements include fairly banal things like email or MS Office. In 2012, those items feel like they are equivalent to making fire. We've been making fire for a long time folks. What's the next standard technology-related item that we should include on position descriptions? I think that one of the next items is going to be fluency with conducting conversations via voice/video over the web.