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2tor Partners with Schools to Build Community
Are we ready to support online learners? This is the question that I posed in a previous post this month...
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Instructure Canvas Has Some Buzz
Instructure's Canvas learning management system (LMS) keeps popping up in the conversations I've been having. I'll be speaking to someone...
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Long Distance Mom: Not Even Past
I’ve seen two films recently that reflect on the lives of women who work away from their children for jobs...
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'Hotspots' and international scientific collaboration
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2011: Innovation and Growth in Knowledge Economies report was released on 20 September...
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Of tulips and jobs
I recently re-read Charles Mackay's classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions. It contains perhaps the best-known account of the Dutch tulip mania...
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College Sports and Our Winter of Discontent
Periodically in the world of intercollegiate athletics, we cycle through a set of controversies, changes, and challenges that cause our...
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Presidents and Mission
Susan Resneck Pierce considers how search committees figure out whether there is a match between candidates to lead an institution and its values.
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Beyond the Three Percent
Why do publishers bring out so few books in translation? Scott McLemee interviews someone trying to change things.