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The temporal rhythm of academic life in a globalizing era
The globalization of higher education and research is associated with a wide variety of shifts and changes, many of which...
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ABC's and PhD's: Stuff
I didn’t write last week because I was overwhelmed in getting ready for our annual migration west. We spend the...
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Does This Make Me Transhuman?
An acquaintance who was a mid-level IT manager likes to remind me, every time I say I resist technology, that...
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Scarcity and Course Design
I'm reading Clay Shirky's amazing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (have you downloaded it...
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Disloyalty?
According to this story from IHE, a provost lost her job after her President found out that she had applied...
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The Year-Later Evaluation
Several alert readers sent me this piece from the Washington Post. It glosses a study conducted at the Air Force...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Summer Jobs
The summer after my junior year of high school I got a summer job in a resort town in Maine...
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ScreenFlow + YouTube = Quick/Robust Feedback
I've become enamored with tools that allow us to have rich, non-text based, communications with our students. If these tools...