By Joshua Kim. And why the future of higher ed is Indian. More...
03 août 2018
Why Higher Ed People Should Read 'The Billionaire Raj'
Seeing The New Academics
By Joshua Kim. A tweet, a blog post, and the work of making non-faculty educators visible. More...
Robot Burger Makers and Adaptive Learning Platforms
By Joshua Kim. 1 technology, 2 futures.
The future of higher education can be found at Creator, a new restaurant in San Francisco. Actually, 2 futures. More...
Higher Ed Fragility and the Surprising Story of Best Buy
By Joshua Kim. For those of us who work at colleges and universities who don’t have tenure - which is most of us - life doesn’t seem all that secure. We read about the 80 Staff Layoffs at Northwestern, and we think that could be us. If you want to really depress yourself, do a search of “layoffs” on IHE (or just click this link), and then come back and tell us about your mood. More...
Will Tomorrow's College Students Not Know How to Use Physical Keyboards?
By Joshua Kim. Recently, I ran across an article on Hacker News (do you read Hacker News?) from a Japanese news site: A New Digital Divide: Young People Who Can’t Use Keyboards. Apparently, a growing number of Japanese students never learned to type of a physical keyboard, having only been exposed to small virtual keyboards on their smartphones. More...
Robot Bartenders and the Future of Work
By Joshua Kim. Higher ed seems to be a hotbed of worry about a robot-driven jobless future. This is at least true of the edtech people with which I hang around. More...
What Learning Innovation Has to Do With Electric Cars, Solar Panels, E-Bikes, and Batteries
By Joshua Kim. My new favorite website is https://electrek.co/. The site’s about page reads: "Electrek is a news site tracking the transition from fossil fuel transportation to electric and the surrounding clean ecosystems." More...
6 Questions About Library and Information Science
By Joshua Kim. Some of us are having a conversation about learning innovation as an emergent academic discipline. See:
- Learning Innovation Is Evolving Into an Academic Discipline
- 8 Questions and Answers on a New Academic Discipline to Study Learning Innovation
There are some things about the scholarship of learning innovation that may relate to the discipline of library and information science (LIS). More...
How 'The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs' Makes Academic Life Look Awesome
By Joshua Kim. Why reading about paleontology will make you want to go to grad school. More...
