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24 mai 2014

Treacherous Ambivalence

By Damtew Teferra. “Going Global 2014” Conference took place in Miami with over 1,000 participants from 70 countries that included ministers, senior government officials, policy makers, institutional leaders, academics, and researchers. In a discussion entitled ‘’Post-2015 Development Framework: The Role of Tertiary Education,” it was stated that the post-2015 MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), may not speak to the development of higher education sector directly. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

On Being Barefoot in Appalachia

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. It’s the last week of school, and the sky has suddenly opened up during just before the time when students are trying to make their way to class. My students are coming into class barefoot, largely because they were wearing flip-flops or flats that got soaked or, worse, floated away in the heavy streams of water rushing through campus. I think of this incident when I read this recent piece on Appalachian and other poor, white, rural students. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Looking Beyond Sakai

By Kenneth C. Green. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Sakai, one of the two flavors of Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS) used by many colleges and universities. It was with great fanfare (and also great aspirations) that in January 2004 the Mellon Foundation announced a $2.7M grant (more like seed money venture philanthropy) to help launch Sakai, intended as a community-determined and driven alternative to the commercial LMS applications licensed by colleges and universities. Essential to the Sakai initiative were significant cash and kind contributions from four universities: Indiana, Michigan, MIT, and Stanford.
At the time of Sakai launch I characterized the LMS arena in higher education as “a mature market with immature products,” a combination that suggested great volatility in the marketplace. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Wired for It

By GradHacker. As classes resume session, and as graduate coursework ramps up (or settles down), you might be finding yourself in the midst of a new schedule, new routines, trying to make sense of where you need to be and when, and what work needs to be done before your next teaching day or class meeting. It always took me (Liz) at least three weeks of a new semester to settle into a “groove” of sorts—to know what was happening when, and to establish blocks of time for various tasks throughout the week. And for me (Emily), the first year of graduate school was about learning to work, read, and write more efficiently, and to break massive tasks into manageable pieces. The second year has been about trying to put those lessons into practice. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Gaga Over Google?

By Tracy Mitrano. I ask this title as a question because I am genuinely curious. Recent news reports have disclosed that Google had been routinely violating both the spirit and the letter of FERPA in this educational enterprise services To these reports, coming out of the Gmail case in California Federal Court, Google responded via its corporate blog that it would change some practices. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Changing Jobs, Changing Requirements, Changing Personnel

By Eric Stoller. Organizational change is at the core of my consulting endeavors. Strategic communications, social media, digital identity, and technology are the entry points for most of my engagements. However, every single conversation, strategy session, keynote, and meeting have a reoccurring theme: organizational change. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Guest Review: ‘Abide’: Poems by Jake Adam York

By Oronte. I welcome back poet Sean Singer, whose previous review at the blog was here. --Churm
Abide. Jake Adam York. Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.
Review by Sean Singer. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

Written Words, Aloud

By Oronte. Well, teaching. Grading. Theses. Office hours. Helping run a program. Conflict resolution. Visiting writers. National conference. University lit mag. Graduation. Publishing project soon to be announced. Kids.
Yes, but what else have I been up to? Did a mini-tour for the new book around our spring break, reading and signing in the Florida Panhandle, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Houston, and Austin. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

It's About Time and Tide

By G. Rendell. There's a set of pictures currently circulating the Web. Artistically done, they depict "what some classic American city scenes would look like today", given twelve feet of sea level rise (a moderate estimate given the widely anticipated collapse of Antarctic glaciers). If you're Facebook acquaintances with anyone even softly focused on climate change, you've probably already seen at least one of these 'shopped photos. And I have absolutely no doubt that many of them will make their way into slide decks for introductory courses on the subject. Read more...

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24 mai 2014

The Largest MOOC in the Universe

By Rosemarie Emanuele. One of the topics in math that fascinates me the most is the idea of infinity. What intrigues me the is that there are several ideas of infinity; the idea of infinity out in any direction, as well as the idea of infinity between two values on a number line. I found myself thinking of these concepts of infinity this past week as I reflected on a thought presented in a TV show I have been watching. Read more...

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