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Guest Post: How Was Your Semester?
Mark Bresnan of Colorado St. University asks a common question with a complicated answer.
Warning to Physician Faculty
Our academic freedom may be at stake, writes Julie Kim, if most of our paycheck is controlled by a hospital that is affiliated with but not owned by the institution.
You Can’t Pour From an Empty Cup
As the semester comes to a close, Anthony Ocampo and Kerry Ann Rockquemore share five strategies for academics experiencing “outrage fatigue.”
Reading 'Uberland' and Thinking About Contingent Faculty
A fine work of technology ethnography.
Why Student Course Evaluations Survive
A lack of alternatives.
Technology in the Classroom: What the Research Tells Us
Fans and foes of letting students use laptops and phones in class hold fervent views. Jordan Troisi and Aaron Richmond suggest acting based on research instead -- and offer recommendations.
Ordinary Education in Extraordinary Times
Despite all the changes going on outside campuses -- and often, in fact, because of them -- our traditional educational practices have never been more important, writes Michael S. Roth.
Where Will the Learning Innovation Community Gather?
Incumbents, upstarts or nowhere?