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MARK MADOFF'S POSTMODERN SUICIDE
Emile Durkheim, the great French sociologist, tells us that there are four kinds of suicide. None of the four really...
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This Year's Market Indicator
Over the past year, my college has advertised for both tenure-track faculty positions and administrative positions. (More of the former...
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4 Reasons I'm Obsessed with Ed Tech Acquisitions
"Why are you beating this horse to death? I mean how many blog posts about Blackboard getting bought can you...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Grading Week, Procrastination, and Social Media
It may be exam week for my students — and my daughter — but it’s grading week for me. This...
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Free Speech and the Internet
What do Amazon, Google, Facebook, I.S.P.s and most Internet corporations have in common? They are all private, for-profit corporations. What...
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YouTube, WebEx and Blackboard
Acquiring Blackboard would make strategic sense for Google, Microsoft or Cisco. Price matters, and Blackboard is expensive at a market...
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Cost-Effectiveness, or Cost?
Friday’s IHE did a story featuring a report by Douglas Harris and Sara Goldrick-Rab that’s well worth reading in its...
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General Education Examined
My sister recently visited a physician in Manila who turned out to be a former undergraduate student of mine in...