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Apocalypse Later
In the debut of a new column, Peter Stokes, a longtime proponent of higher education innovation, challenges the fascination with "disruption" and urges a focus on improvement and strategy instead.
Lab Groups
In grad school, I openly envied my colleagues in the sciences. It wasn’t the slightly higher stipends or the chance to play with cool toys, as real as both of those were. It was the opportunity to work on a regular basis with a lab group.
2013 EdTech Predictions: An Interview with Adrian Sannier
Adrian Sannier is one of those edtech leaders who is difficult to pigeonhole. An academic working for a big publishing company. A truth-teller operating within a buttoned-down publisher. An idealist operating within the real world of business, profit and loss. Adrian's title at Pearson is Digital Strategist and Senior Vice President of Product - he is the guy behind OpenClass.
Uncertain stories
The evidence that stories are effective and efficient teaching tools is generally based on test results -- improved reading, writing, science and math scores. But in terms of teaching sustainability concepts, stories have an additional advantage. To the extent that they describe real-world (or seemingly real-world, or even imaginably real-world) characters and actions, each story situation is inherently trans-disciplinary.
MLA, Face-to-Face
How being there was in some ways better, some ways worse.
Dog Days
Did Bo help get the president re-elected? Scott McLemee looks into the burgeoning literature on canine politics.
The Active Interview
Even if you aren't asking the questions, you can guide the conversation, writes Katherine Ellison.