By Joshua Kim. Have you also been sucked into the World Cup vortex?
I vote that every college president declare match times as work times, gather the campus around giant screens, and watch the games together. The price in missed classes and postsecondary productivity would be well-balanced by the gains in campus unity. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. The updates to Apple’s iTunes U Courses app look to be welcome improvements.
Instructors and course designers will now be able to create private iTunes U courses directly from the app. In the past the course build process went through the browser. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Are you working full-time in higher ed while also pursuing a higher ed degree?
Are you one of those academic professionals that combines a demanding career with an intensive graduate program?
Are you mixing a full-days work with online and / or low-residency coursework. Read more...
By Matt Reed. “It’s easier to collaborate dance-science than dance-dance.” -- Liz LermanBy Matt Reed. Monday’s theme at the CUR conference was translation. How can people with very different vocabularies, assumptions, and interests talk to each other productively?By Matt Reed. Sometimes the seats tell you as much as the speakers. In a Tuesday morning timeslot -- the last morning of the conference, which is a sort of scheduling Siberia -- a panel on “alternate sources of funding” was standing-room-only. Some issues transcend institutional type. Read more...By Matt Reed. The Boy recently discussed a girl he likes. He started imagining a date. He asked me not to embarrass him when I drove them somewhere.
By Tracy Mitrano. This summer I am teaching “Digital Media Culture” at John Cabot University in Rome. Two of my favorite things in life: teaching and Italy! I am very grateful.
My students are mainly from the United States, some matriculated at John Cabot, some here for their summer sojourn abroad. Two students are Italians. One is from the Ukraine, another from Egypt. I take note that when I talk about U.S. history, it would appear that the students who are not from the United States know more about it than the ones who are. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. I have always been intrigued by this phrase, uttered by Thomas Jefferson in his elder years when he heard of the Missouri Compromise. As a younger man, slave and plantation owner, statesman, and most importantly, the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was of the belief that slavery was a “peculiar institution” and would fade away of its own accord. Those thoughts occurred to him in the early years of the republic, when drafters of the Constitution sought to smooth over differences about slavery to protect and preserve the new nation. Jefferson was not a signer of the Constitution. He was in France at the time. But as the third person to serve in the executive branch that the Constitution created, one can assume that he believed in it. Read more...
One of the private colleges singled out by the U.K. Minister of Security and Immigration, James Brokenshire, in his Tuesday remarks to Parliament about abuse of the student visa system is disputing the minister’s account, Times Higher Education reported. Brokenshire said in his remarks that 290 students at the London School of Business and Finance had worked last year despite lacking authorization to do so. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
