By Natalie Samson. Twelve volumes; 2,200 articles; 1,800 contributors from 58 countries, and an editorial board of 155 international scholars. Alex Michalos rattled off the list of numbers that went into creating The Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (Springer) with obvious pride and a touch of awe. The 78-year-old professor emeritus edited the resource, which came out this spring. He considers it his legacy project, and with good reason. More...
By Michael Horn. With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI piece and this University Ventures Fund piece, for example). The Clayton Christensen Institute has written unbundling recently. In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled. More...
By Meris Stansbury - . The treatment of contingent faculty in higher education today has not only been called the “corporatization of higher education,” but through increasing exploitation, has also led to a weakening of the university status, the devaluing of education, and the stripping of campus democratic values. More...
By . Faculty often want to learn more about technology integration, but have difficulty finding the time, or knowing where to start. Many understand the basics of technology in higher education, but would like to see new ideas. They are faced with providing more training to more users with fewer resources. More...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. “Mom, you have to work during the summers now?”
By Eric Stoller. It's generally a good thing when a post receives more than 20 comments. Sometimes comments are brought about by a radical idea or question. In other posts, comments have a bit more "troll flavor" to them. And, sometimes comments on a post are a mix of troll drive-bys, appreciation, criticism, and once in a while...wisdom. Last week, after a rather hectic week of work, business travel, and logistics, I sat down and wrote a post about my preference for Starbucks stores. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. In the last two months, I've spent time at Starbucks locations in the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. My usual experience at Starbucks consists of purchasing a beverage and/or something to eat. I've probably spent a ridiculous amount of dollars, pesos, and pounds at Starbuck. Read more...
By Liz Reisberg. I read with dismay that the State Department is planning a new program to provide professional development in the US for young African and Asian leaders. While I celebrate any new international educational initiative, I do not understand why it has to come at the expense of the Fulbright program. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Joshua Kim raised a question yesterday that helped me build the bridge I was trying to construct between two stimulating blog posts that seemed connected, though I wasn’t sure how. One, a Gigaom post by Laura Hazard Owen, describes the ways some writers are framing the Hachette-Amazon dispute in terms that echo Tea Party rhetoric: we’re scrappy independents standing up for freedom against the elites and the snobs. Read more...
By John Warner. I’d wager that Charleston has more great restaurants per capita than any city in the world. This wasn’t always the case, apparently. Last year I interviewed Chef Sean Brock of Charleston’s Husk and McGrady’s for a magazine article and he told me about coming to Charleston from Wise County, Virginia, for culinary school and being excited to try this regional dish called “Hoppin’ John” he’d heard so much about. Read more...
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