By Joshua Kim. Inside Higher Ed is a community where we attempt, at least sometimes, to make sense of higher ed. Why else would we spend time on the site? There are far more absorbing activities we could be engaging in than debating the university. For sheer entertainment value, we could do worse than devoting our precious waking hours to watching TV. More...

By Joshua Kim. At IHE, we tend to talk about online learning from the perspective of schools and professors and companies and programs. Seldom do we hear from our students and our potential students. More...

By Joshua Kim. Viewing Trump.
At the end of every book review I write, I ask you to answer a question: "What are you reading?". More...

By Joshua Kim. Far too often, the stories we tell each other about higher ed are either dismal (demographic drop-offs, cost disease, adjunctification, public disinvestment, etc. etc.) or rapturous (innovation, experimentation, digital, etc.). More...

By Joshua Kim. One way to think of The Meritocracy Trap is as a master class developing a book-length argument. An alternative reading of the book would be one that highlights the dangers of making overly broad conclusions around too narrow a set of provocative ideas. More...

By Joshua Kim. Why we should be suspicious of books that confirm what we already believe. More...