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22 décembre 2013

Gifts for Grads: Technology

By GradHacker. Shopping for graduate students can be hard. We're making it a little easier this week with a series of gift guides for the special graduate students in your life. We're kicking off our annual gifts for grads week with hot picks for tech gifts from those who are in the know: our very own GradHacker authors.
Katy - Personalized URL (ex. yourname.com): Your name is your brand as an academic. We’ve talked before about the importance of having a personal website or blog where you can share your portfolios, publications, and have a unified space for your social media. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

Everybody Must Get Stoned

By UD. Revelation of gender segregation at public events in British universities should make Americans that much more vigilant about threats to equality in their own universities. We are not yet where the British are - we do not yet have official university bodies counseling gender apartheid - but we could certainly get there. How to avoid the upheaval on the subject in England (in which the prime minister has had to step in to remind that country's universities what separate but equal means), the general outrage with the practice of making women sit in the backs of public meeting rooms, and in many cases forcing them to shut up? How does a practice like that develop in a secular democratic culture?
It develops when liberal democracies lose their taste for defending foundational values. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

When You Give Your Copyright Away

By Barbara Fister. Scholars and scientists were shocked, shocked, when Elseiver had the temerity to send takedown notices (over 2,000 of them) to Academia.edu, a social network which invites academics to share their research. What? Huh? Those are my articles! How dare they?
My response: HAHAHAHAHahahahahah . . . whew, that was funny. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

Harvesting the Fruits of the Undergraduate Classroom

By Robert K. Nelson. It’s hard to believe that just a year ago debates about MOOCs dominated the conversation about new media and higher education in the twenty-first century. Proponents promised that MOOCs would bring massive productivity gains to higher education, enabling individual professors (albeit working with expensive and expansive teams of developers and technicians) to reach thousands or even tens of thousands of students simultaneously. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

It's Not a MOOC, It's a Movement

By Cathy N. Davidson. In January 2014, HASTAC, the nonprofit open learning network we founded in 2002 and now 12,000+ network members strong, will be mounting an international #FutureEd initiative designed to inspire thousands of students and professors to think together in innovative ways about the “History and Future of Higher Education.” In times of tremendous social and political change, such as during the Industrial Age—especially in those eras where radical new technologies rearrange the conditions of labor and the connections between areas of knowledge—education often is the means by which a new generation can be prepared for the challenges ahead. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

When I ask why the poor have no food

By G. Rendell. A story on NPR's Morning Edition today struck me (even before my first cup of coffee) as exemplifying how broken some of this country's default systems are. It was titled "This Stanford PhD became a Fruit Picker to Feed California's Hungry". Presented as a soft news/human interest item, its implications are enormous. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

A Year of Running

By Eric Stoller. For my last post of 2013, I'm going to change it up. This isn't about innovation, change, social media, analytics, or technology. Nope, this post is about running. When 2013 began, I wasn't able to run. During the last three months of 2012, I had developed plantar fasciitis in my right foot as well as a bruised heel in my left foot. My feet were a wreck. My podiatrist made me wear Brooks Beast shoes with custom orthotics. From January until the end of March, I wore those shoes for every keynote, consultation, and errand. As a self-identified sneaker aficionado, it was not a fun time. My desire to go for a run was maddening. If you're a runner, you'll understand. Distance running is what I do to reduce stress, enhance creative thought, and increase my metabolism. Not being able to run was/is a stressful experience. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

What Books Did You Read in 2013?

By Joshua Kim. What are we? We are a community of book lovers.
We read books. We buy books. We assign books. We review books. We catalogue books. We recommend books. We talk about books. Some of you even write books.
Someone should add up the size of the IHE book economy. How many millions of dollars of book related commerce do we touch?
Why Amazon and B&N and Audible and the big publishers are not buying up every available ad on IHE is puzzling. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

A Revenue Model for My MOOB?

By Joshua Kim. I’m starting to get the feeling that the venture capitalists and philanthropists backing this Technology and Learning MOOB (massively open online blog) are running out of patience.
They want a sustainable revenue model. They want some ROI. They want it sooner than later.
I’ve been trying to point out that we’ve been focused on building a large user base, and that monetization opportunities will arise when enough people are participating in this MOOB. Read more...

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22 décembre 2013

2014 EdTech & TLC Conferences

By Joshua Kim. How many edtech and/or TLC (Teaching and Learning Center) conferences will you go to in the next 12 months?
Which conferences?
How do you decide?
I’ve been trying to figure out which conference (or conferences) to attend in 2014. Read more...

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