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Ask a Stupid Question: Why is there so much anonymity when it comes to the practices of academic discourse?

The first in a series of stupid questions I'm asking because I don't know the answers.
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Clippy’s Revenge

When did Microsoft Word become such a lumbering, bloated behemoth?
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Conventional Wisdom Is Killing Us

Liberal arts colleges should stop listening to experts’ gloomy predictions and calls for efficiency, and focus on building relationships with students, Mark Putnam writes.
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MOOC SYNTHESIZER - VI

Inside Higher Ed reports on the predictable growth of MOOCs at America's leading universities, many of whose professors are as interested as UD was when she was approached by Udemy's Faculty Project (her MOOC on poetry is on its way to 250 students from around the world - far short of thousands, but we're just getting started here).
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Foundations of Strategy, Part 2: Supply

As a continuation on the Foundations of Strategy theme, this post is about the supply of educational opportunities. In short, they’re exploding.
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A Grander Bargain

For the foreseeable future, this blog will be the last in my little trilogy of comments related to a discussion last week with network, content owners and higher education folks in D.C. It is my proposal for a Grander Bargain.
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Rewarding Teaching Innovation

Elizabeth H. Simmons shares a set of inexpensive, reinforcing strategies that have worked to inspire faculty members at her institution -- and might apply to yours, too.
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Food Fright

A new book on food panics puts the "pink slime" scare into perspective. Scott McLemee is what he eats.