By Matt Reed. What separates boilerplate from plagiarism?
When I read about President Starcevich, at Kirkwood Community College, having plagiarized in a speech, I had to wonder where that line goes. More...
28 février 2016
States’ Rights and Means Testing? Um, no thanks…
By Matt Reed. New America issued a report last week suggesting a complete overhaul of the system we have for financing higher education in America. (You can find the report here, and IHE’s initial coverage here.) It’s an attempt to build an entirely new system for ensuring access to college across income levels, and it largely relies on ditching the voucher model of grants and loans -- in which money flows through students to institutions -- and replacing it with a model of institutional support, run through states. More...
Separating Boilerplate From Plagiarism
Amazon OER?
By Matt Reed. So Amazon is working on a site that will curate Open Educational Resources. The initial market is K-12, though I have a hard time imagining higher ed will be far away. They’re calling it Amazon Inspire, and it’s supposed to launch in a few months. More...
Enhanced Voice Typing for Google Docs
By Joshua Kim. In trying out this new enhanced Google Docs Voice typing feature, I'm realizing that for me writing is typing. Thinking is typing. Read more...3 Ways Higher Ed Can Avoid the Fate of Polaroid
By Joshua Kim. I’m in the middle of reading Adam Grant’s new book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - a book that is too good to recommend only once. Read more...Higher Education and ‘The Industries of the Future’
By Joshua Kim. The revolution in postsecondary education will not occur in today’s rich but old countries. This revolution will unfold throughout the emerging world - in countries that are today both young and relatively poor. Read more...EdTech and 'All The Birds in the Sky'
By Joshua Kim. It was not until I read Charlie Jane Anders wonderful science fiction / fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky that I understood the internal tension in our edtech profession. Read more...
