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18 novembre 2015

Tackling a Super Wicked Problem

By Steven Mintz. Higher education faces a number of wicked problems that are exceeding difficult to solve, precisely because any solutions are enormously expensive, exceptionally complex, and extremely divisive, and require implementation at scale. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

The Future of The Future of Higher Education

By Dan Butin. Another commission on the future of higher education has just been formed. I thus sometimes wonder whether we would all be better off and save everyone a lot of time and money and headaches if we instead embraced what should be the standard-issue for any academic administrator in this age of disruption: the Magic 8-Ball. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Then What?

By Laura Tropp. There are so many stories in the news about how helicopter parenting hurts kids. Comics make fun of it. Stories constantly warn about the dangers of it. It may cause a “psychological blowback” in College. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Math Geek Mom: Cultural References

By Rosemarie Emanuele. Economists talk about buying things that we “need and want.” However, in thinking about this, the distinction between needs and wants is often not made, although it was one that I considered when I decided not to buy a television while in graduate school, due to my limited income. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Math Geek Mom: Random Encounters

By Rosemarie Emanuele. Ever an economist, trying to get the most from a limited budget, the “extreme couponer” in me came out recently when I went to a local store with a coupon promising me quite a bit of a discount if I spent a specified amount at that store. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Whose Journal is This, Anyway?

By Barbara Fister. Last week, the editors and editorial board of Lingua, a long-established linguistics journal, resigned to found a new open access journal, Glossa. One of the questions raised in the ensuing conversation is “wait, who really owns this thing?” Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Big Data and the Logic of Consumerism

By Barbara Fister. Last month The Intercept, an online muckraking news source that was founded last year by Glenn Greenwald and others, released a trove of leaked classified documents about our drone warfare in the Middle East and Africa. Though it was mostly ignored by the media, it was an important story. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

On a “Less Commercial” EDUCAUSE

By Kenneth C. Green. This post on Digital Tweed is a response to two of your recent Technology and Learning blog posts. The first, dated November 1st, called for a “calmer, less commercial EDUCAUSE 2016.” The second, posted the following day (when do you sleep – or have time for your day job at Dartmouth?), was your (faux memo) response to my faux client memo titled “Partner is Not A Verb,” published by EdSurge prior to the EDUCAUSE conference and intended (primarily) for firms doing business with higher education. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

Steve Jobs: The Movie and the Zeitgeist

By Kenneth C. Green. Whatcha doing this weekend? Are you thinking about a movie? If so, then perhaps you should consider the new Steve Jobs movie, based in part on the authorized Jobs biography by Walter Issacson with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin who also wrote the screenplay for The Social Network, about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. Read more...

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18 novembre 2015

CJIS

By Tracy Mitrano. A few blog posts ago, I wrote about body worn cameras on campus law enforcement. Since then I have been thinking more about the standards required for the storage and transmission of the video. Read more...

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