By Joshua Kim. Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi
Lexicon: A Novel by Max Barry
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Over Thanksgiving break I didn’t think I didn’t read e-mail, and I didn’t think about higher education. Read more...
15 décembre 2015
EdTech and Hard Sci-Fi
61 Ways You Know You Are Talking to an Instructional Designer
By Joshua Kim. 61 Ways You Know You Are Talking To An Instructional Designer:
1. They are scarily good at listening.
2. They will always first try to clearly establish your goals. Read more...
Introductory Course Improvements and ‘The Evolution of Everything’
By Joshua Kim. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley. Published in October of 2015.
The biggest higher ed story is the story that we never talk about. That is the story of how foundational introductory courses have improved dramatically in the past decade, and how these improvements are set to accelerate. Read more...
Thanksgiving 2020: 3 Technologies I’m Grateful For
By Joshua Kim. 2020 has been a year that we have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving holiday when it comes to technology.
Remember those technology doldrums 5 years ago, when the most exciting technology news of 2016 was an iPad the size of airline tray table? Those were grim tech times indeed. Read more...
‘Station Eleven’ and an Idea for a Cross-Disciplinary Course on Collapse
By Joshua Kim. Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel. Published in September of 2014
I’ve written before on the need for higher ed people to push back on the power of the collapse meme. Read more...
‘The Song Machine’ and The Higher Ed Machine
By Joshua Kim. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook. Published in October of 2015.
The kind of higher education that I love is higher education unplugged. Education at a human rather than a technological scale. Read more...
36 Books On Higher Education
By Joshua Kim. Are you also a student of higher education?
What are the books about higher education that are in your library?
I went through my Amazon and Audible library’s to figure out which books that I own on higher education. Read more...
Why Digital Works Against Physical Scale
By Joshua Kim. When it comes to education, could digital be the enemy of physical scale?
When I am thinking of scale in education, I am thinking about all those things that we have traditionally done together (synchronously) with many people. And when I say many people, I mean somewhere between say 50 and 5,000. Read more...
Change Through the Creation of a Consortium in Brazil
By Fabio Garcia Reis. The dynamic and complex higher education environment obliges administrators to recognize the need for institutional changes that respond to new demands from society. Unfortunately, HEIs tend to be slow to change. Read more...
Has Political Correctness Run Amok?
By Philip Altbach and Liz Reisberg. Recent student demands to rename and retract names of courses, academic programs and research centers, to include “triggers” in course syllabi, as well as to cancel speakers deemed offensive to specific university campus constituents have already received much attention in the media. Read more...
