By Joshua Kim. The 5 biggest companies built on data - Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are the world’s 5 most valuable public companies. Together, these companies earned $25 billion in net profits during the first quarter of 2017. More...
22 mai 2017
Drawing Different Conclusions from Mintz's 11 Lessons
By Joshua Kim. If you are going to read one thing about higher ed this week, then make it Steven Mintz’s piece 11 Lessons From the History of Higher Ed. More...
3 Questions for An Alt-Academic Working Towards A PhD
By Joshua Kim. A Q&A with Ashley Kehoe, Associate Director of Experiential Learning at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. More...
Time to Bust The Myth of the Slow University and the Fast Edtech Company
By Joshua Kim. Since Josh Kim stayed home this year, I feel obliged to share some thoughts from the ASU-GSV Summit in Salt Lake City. More...
Are We In The Data Business?
Notes From My Year of Going Almost Nowhere
By Joshua Kim. 4 observations inspired by not going to next week’s ASU+GSV Summit. More...
11 Answers from a University Librarian
By Joshua Kim. This past March I posted 11 questions for the attendees of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) bi-annual conference. More...
Building Support for Online Learning at Small Residential Institutions
By Joshua Kim. Read the Digital Learning Compass report on online education enrollment and you will see lots of big numbers. In 2015 over 6 million students took at least one online course - 5 million undergrad, a million grad - with bout half of these distance learners are taking courses exclusively online. More...
The $1.9 Trillion Global Higher Ed Market
By Joshua Kim. The number that caught my eye from the 2U / GetSmarter acquisition news. More...
Teaching Failure
By John Warner. Writing at the Times Literary Supplement, scholar/classicist Mary Beard asks “How long can it take to write a paragraph?” More...
Proficiency Isn't Enough
By John Warner. When it comes to writing, we have to do better than "proficiency." More...
