By Joshua Kim. The piece went on to detail how the New York City Police Department purchased Windows phones as part of a $160 million mobility effort. Just months after the last Windows phone was handed out, the NYPD decided to replace them all with iPhones, as Microsoft had stopped supporting the phone’s operating system. More...
Why Digital Technology Is to Higher Ed What Electricity Was to Manufacturing
By Joshua Kim. The next 50 years.
Why haven’t digital technologies transformed higher education. More...
Supercuts and the Future of (Too Many) Jobs
By Joshua Kim. How a haircut made me wonder if we are worried about the wrong things when it comes automation, robots, and employment. More...
'Superfandom', Audiobooks, and Audible.com
By Joshua Kim. Passionate opinions about the company that puts books, including this book, in our ears. More...
Is Online Education a Jobs Engine?
By Joshua Kim. For a while now I’ve thought that the growth of online shopping is killing retail jobs, and that this trend would inevitably result in overall job losses as less the role of sales people and cashiers is eliminated. More...
Alt-Ac Conversations and Social Media as the New Smoking
By Joshua Kim. If there is an alt-ac conference, I’ve not been invited. My academic library does not subscribe to the journal of alternative-academics, mostly because I don’t think that it exists. If my institution ever had an alt-ac department, or a major in alternative-academic studies, then perhaps it was closed down before my time. Nobody I know has a PhD in alt-ac. More...
Why Alt-Acs Go to Conferences
By Joshua Kim. On messy careers, liminal roles, and building cross-institutional communities of practice. More...
EdTech and the Demise of the iPod Nano
By Joshua Kim. We learned today that Apple has discontinued the iPod nano and iPod shuffle. More...
3 Lessons from the UVM Medical School Active Learning Pivot
By Joshua Kim. Are you talking on your campus about the UVM Larner College of Medicine’s transition to an all active learning program?
You should be. More...