Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Bring your own device programs are evolving. It’s time to take a fresh look. Bring-your-own-device and one-to-one laptop/tablet implementations on K-12 campuses usually sound simply enough in theory—but they can actually be quite complex. More...
14 juin 2015
6 steps to a successful BYOD program
Privacy for the Public
By Barbara Fister. Libraries are getting some welcome positive attention lately. The Ferguson Public Library has just been named Library Journal’s Library of the Year for being a creatively hospitable public space for a community in crisis. Scott Bonner, the library director, keeps sharing the warm glow by reminding everyone that this is what public libraries do every day. Read more...
Schooling for Scandal
By Barbara Fister. Ever since the news broke about Science pulling a political science paper after graduate students called attention to problems with its methodology and one of its authors asked for it to be retracted, I’ve been mulling over how to talk about this episode with students. It says something about how peer review works, but doesn’t always. Read more...
When Digital Identity Begins
By Eric Stoller. My parents purchased a "real" computer when I was a senior in high school. It was the replacement for our Commodore 64. Beloved as it was, the "Commodore" and its dot matrix printer wasn't exactly high-tech in 1995. However, with over a gigabyte of hard drive space, Windows 95, and a mouse, the new machine was epic. And, it offered up a portal to the outside (digital) world via dial-up Internet. Read more...Unsolicited Advice From 2002
By Eric Stoller. Every now and then, a post on the Student Affairs Collective captures my attention and gets me reflecting on my own experiences as a student affairs professional. Ben Weiner's post on "The Challenge of Motivating Yourself in Student Affairs" is a call for assistance/advice/support by a new practitioner who is navigating their way through their first professional role in the field. Read more...Return to Italy
By Tracy Mitrano. I returned to Italy yesterday. This week I will visit with my friend, Elisabetta Morani, the librarian for John Cabot University in Rome, where I will teach in July. This weekend I go back to my father’s family homeland, Gaeta, in Lazio, on the coast just south of Rome. Read more...Standards
By Tracy Mitrano. A few weeks ago I touted International Standards Organization, or ISO, 27018. I did so largely as an advocate of the appropriate management of institutional information and research data in higher education, in particular regarding privacy management in cloud computing. Read more...Doing It Wrong
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Lately, I’ve been having a very distinct feeling that I have been doing it all wrong. Although, honestly, I’m not even sure what “it” is for me anymore, so how can I even know that I’m wrong about what I am doing? But that feeling is still there, like I am missing something, some truth that alludes me, to help it all make sense, to feel like I am not wrong, somehow. Read more...The Teaching Track
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A few weeks ago (ok, almost three months now – HOW IS IT ALREADY JUNE), Michael Bérubé wrote “A New Model of Tenure” here at IHE, calling for a “teacher track” for more teaching-intensive positions. It sparked quite a discussion, and he and the co-author of an upcoming book on the same topic, Jennifer Ruth, published a kind of response over at CHE. Read more...Assuming (In)Competence
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A few weeks ago, my son broke his arm.
He broke his arm quite badly, actually, in a semi-public space, surrounded by people we sort of knew; not complete strangers, but people who didn’t know us very well and vice-versa. More...
