By Joshua Kim. This past month Jessica Lahey, the author of the education-disguised-as-parenting-book The Gift of Failure, was on campus to talk about her book. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. My colleague Mike Goudzwaard has written about the only platform that could ever convince me to jump to an edtech startup - the “no-feature” LMS. I watched this idea come to fruition as Mike and McGill’s Adam Finkelstein have been cooking this idea up at various edtech events. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. How should we talk about our work at the intersection of learning, technology and higher ed change? What is the language of our practice? Here are 20 (inadequate) attempts to describe this (our) work. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. House Hunters is the show that spawned an entire industry of real estate rubbernecking. Property Brothers (my wife's favorite), Fixer Upper, Love It or List It, the list goes on and on. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. There seems to be a widely shared belief, both inside and outside of academia, that the hiring of non-faculty educators is diverting resources from faculty. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. None of the examples that Micah Zenko draws on in this excellent book Red Team come from academia. Yet, while reading Red Team, I kept thinking of ways that the methodology could be applicable to our work in higher education. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. My assumption (that I’d like to unpack and challenge) is that those of us working across postsecondary education should build coalitions with our teaching faculty. This belief is both rooted in my own professional history (I spent much of my career teaching), and in what I have learned working in educational technology. Read more...