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22 mars 2015

Scaling Student Support

By Matt Reed and Susanna Williams. In the Wild West future of unbundled higher education that has been proposed in various forms by Kevin Carey, Anya Kamenetz, and Jeff Selingo, the targeted student seems to be a solo outlaw, a confident autodidact who hungers for the unbound autonomy of a “DIY” bespoke education. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Friday Fragments - March 19, 2015

By Matt Reed. Okay, that’s a little exaggerated, since Coastal Carolina University is a non-profit. But the logic is very much the same. Apparently, it has challenged its faculty and staff to improve student retention numbers, with raises dependent on the results. The more retention improves, the more everyone gets paid. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

“A Known Issue”

By Matt Reed. For the last couple of weeks, the home printer/scanner simply refused to communicate with the laptop. I’ve been trying to deal with some travel receipts, and it has been a real headache. A few days ago, I got a popup message on the laptop noting that the driver wasn’t compatible with the latest version of Windows, and that the incompatibility was “a known issue.” Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Filmed Plays

By Matt Reed. A new genre usually takes a while to grow into itself. In its infancy, it resembles other things that came before. After a while, it’s easy to forget that what has come to seem normal was once radical and threatening. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Public Matters: A Response to Kevin Carey

By Matt Reed. “We are headed for a time of brutal unmasking” - The End of College, p. 249
Back in the 90’s, there was a brief flurry of interest around the demise of the “public intellectual,” who was informally understood to be the sort of person who wrote about Big Ideas in accessible language for general readers. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Instructional Designers by the Numbers

By Joshua Kim. CNN Money says that being an Instructional Designer is the 38th best job in America. I think that working as an Instructional Designer may be both the best job in higher education. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Microsoft, Outlook for Mac 15.6, and the Calendar Bug

By Joshua Kim. Bugs happen. Buggy software is, unfortunately, the norm rather than the exception. No software that is ever shipped will be bug free. We hope that the software we buy (or more often now rent) has been thoroughly tested. We expect that once bugs are identified that they will be quickly remediated. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

What's Missing in the Vision of Stanford’s Hennessy

By Joshua Kim. I hope that you take a few minutes to read the 3/16 IHE story Not a Tsunami, But… about Stanford’s John L. Hennessy talk at ACE. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Screen Absorption and “The Organized Mind”

By Joshua Kim. Does this happen to you? You show up a few minutes early to a meeting, and everyone sitting around the table is absorbed in their various screens. Nobody is talking to each other. Folks are reading e-mail on laptops, iPads, and phones. Everyone is busy checking their calendars, finishing a note, and trying to get caught up. Read more...

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22 mars 2015

Bridging the Gap: Theory and Practice

By Andrea Zellner. As a researcher in an applied field (Ed Psych/Ed Tech, to be precise), I am acutely aware of the pressure for my research be both authentic and easily applicable. Nonetheless, my field still struggles with making research relevant and useful to practitioners. While every grad student is trained to be able to answer the “How is this applicable” question, in the end it doesn’t really matter. Read more...

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