By Joshua Kim. The costs, and potential benefits, of postsecondary data-driven decision making. More...
'Fiber' Is a Wakeup Call to our Digital Learning Community
By Joshua Kim. Our digital learning community needs a cause. Some fight that strikes an optimal balance between self-interest and doing the right thing. More...
Debating Tyler Cowen
By Joshua Kim. Alt-acs and the scary prospect of public writing about something other than higher education. More...
How 'Rule Makers, Rule Breakers' Might Explain the Academic / IT Divide
By Joshua Kim. Why professors are Chaos Muppets, administrative IT professionals are Order Muppets, and how this divide is breaking down. More...
Higher Ed Lessons from Netflix's Bird Box
By Joshua Kim. Netflix does not release viewing statistics for subscribers for faculty or staff or students, but if the campus buzz is any indication, then the movie is even more popular in academia than in the real world. More...
Take Care (of Yourself)
By Mary Churchill. Women, I need you to be here for the long haul. More...
Long-Distance Commuting as a Momma
By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. Here’s what I have learned so far. More...
Guest Blog: But I Like My Third Eye!
By John Warner. In Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, I lament that, in my view, students don't do enough writing, and from the student perspective, the writing they do do seems disjointed one course to the next. More...
Don't Do It, Gavin Newsom
By John Warner. Governor Newsom, please don't spend $10 million on a system that tracks students from kindergarten all the way into the work force. More...
What I Learned (Or Didn't) at AHA and MLA
By John Warner. I am a something of a slow thinker, a ruminator if you will, so I hesitate to try to say anything large and definitive about the experience of attending both the AHA Annual Meeting and the MLA Annual Convention this past weekend. More...