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3 Counterintuitive Higher Ed Lessons From the NYPD Replacing 36,000 Smartphones
On communications, sunk costs, and desk phones.
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What's New and Where It Fits
How are you addressing our changing information environment in your teaching? How do you make room for new realities and attendant controversies?
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The Plight of the Independent Scholar
Rebecca Bodenheimer describes the trials and frustrations of attending academic conferences when you’re unaffiliated.
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Earning a Degree to Go to Camp
Coding boot camps act as an auxiliary to a college education, not as an alternative, and they use advertising and intensive admissions processes to find students who succeed, write Quinn Burke, Louise Ann Lyon and James Bowring.
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5 Sweeping Student Tech Generalizations From a Sample Size of 2
On laptops, a preference for paper, and an inability to avoid Facebook.
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On Gratitude and Leadership
Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it.
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Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World
We in higher education do a poor job helping students translate the specific content or knowledge gained in our classrooms into a tool that will help them thrive in life, writes Cathy N. Davidson.