When I read this piece on Making Apprenticeships Work in Inside Higher Ed, I was intrigued by the recommendation to “Shift the mind-set to digital apprenticeships by bringing emerging and fast-growing industries to the table.” More...
The annual Association of American Colleges & Universities Conference ran from January 24-27 and that meant that everyone seemed to be writing about General Education in the week that followed. More...
2U is an online program management company. WeWork is a co-working space company. 2U is using WeWork space to meet learner-workers where they are. The goal is to tap into the lifelong learner market - what we used to call (and sometimes still do) adult ed/professional development/ non credit/ continuing ed. More...
As the revelations about sexual harassment in Hollywood and elsewhere came to light, what I found most disturbing was the institutional culture that tolerated harassment and punished women for speaking out. More...
By Barbara Fister. Help ProPublica document the highly-tailored political advertising that Facebook is hiding from us (unless we're the target audience). More...
By Barbara Fister. I was excited to be part of a symposium in New York, Libraries in the Context of Capitalism, put on by the Metropolitan New York Library Council in their new digs on 11th avenue. More...
By Barbara Fister. When I was growing up, going to a gas station involved an attendant who filled the tank and cleaned the windshield. By adulthood I was used to pumping my own gas, so when I was in Oregon a couple of years ago, it seemed odd to have to rely on someone else to do it, but that was the law. More...
By Barbara Fister. I tried MOOCing again. I didn’t stick long with the first of these free online courses I tried, but this one, Engagement in a Time of Polarization, was too tempting to pass up. I knew some of the organizers by reputation and through Twitter encounters so I knew it would be good. Also it was only two weeks long. I thought I could swing two weeks. More...
By Matt Reed. A graph worth studying.
This chart makes quite the inkblot test. More...
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