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Long Distance Mom: Airports and Non-Places
What does ‘home for the holidays’ mean when you aren’t really sure where your home is located? Marc Auge’s book...
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Speculating About Desire2Learn
Warning : This blog post is entirely speculative and quite likely wrong in many (if not all) areas. Unfortunately, I...
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ABC's and PhD's: Nobel perspective
Two weeks ago I reported on a proposal about to come up for vote in the University of Maryland senate...
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Settling
You know you're grading on a curve when settling to pay out only $78 million causes your stock to go...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...