By Joshua Kim. The NYTimes is getting it right with The Uphshot. 
Who needs Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight when we can get “news analysis, data visualizations, commentary and historical context” from the staff of the NYTimes?   (Actually, FiveThirtyEight and Nate Silver are still pretty great). Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Austin Carr has a great article on The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon’s Future in Fast Company.
Why has the Fire Phone been such a disaster? Carr reports that Bezos modeled his behaviors around the phone design on Steve Jobs. Every decision about the phone’s design went through Bezos. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. We have an edtech space problem. Our work, if you work at the intersection of learning and technology, increasingly resembles that of a tech startup. The spaces that we work are, however, unlikely to have been designed around how we work today. Edtech work patterns and edtech work rhythms have left our legacy office designs behind. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Badging in higher ed is one of those topics where my understanding falls short of my curiosity.  It is for this reason that I asked my colleagues Mike Goudzwaard and Michael Evans if they would be willing to write a guest post on some of the issues around badging that our IHE community should be discussing.   Mike G. is an Instructional Designer and Michael E. is a Neukom Fellow in the Neukom Institute for Computational Science, and together they are leading the discussion of digital badging our institution. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. The most important higher education story of 2015 will, ironically, be a story published at the end of 2014.  This is the 12/26 NYT’s story by Richard Prichard Pérez-Peña Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science. Read more...