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An iPad for (My) Students?
Jim Groom is dead on - I'm pandering to the iPad. Why stop now? (But seriously….stay tuned for a full...
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J.D. Salinger: 1919 - 2010
A short story can never be too rich or too thin. J.D. Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananafish - its...
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Ask the Administrator: Second Master's, or Ph.D.?
A new correspondent writes: I have a dilemma. I currently writing my thesis for a MS degree (industrial management). My...
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iPad and the Risk of 'Sustaining Innovations'
The risk of the iPad for higher education is that the device will prove a "sustaining innovation" in learning technology...
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Long Distance Mom: Drowning in Debt
It’s a humbling experience when you realize that, yes indeed, you are one of those over-educated Americans who can be...
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Yesterday's news
No, I'm not concerned with what will be (by the time you read this) last night's State of the Union...
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Classroom Gaffes
When explaining how to prepare adequately for creative writing workshops, I ask new classes to take their peers’ work home...
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ABCs and PhD's: Stress
I snow-balled a meltdown as I hurrumphed around this evening, distressed at the resistance of my family to help out...