By Laura Tropp. In the last 72 hours, I have received two requests from my 10-year-old son and my 8-year-old daughter for what I deem as unnecessary technology during inappropriate times. Read more...
27 avril 2015
27 avril 2015
Books, Online
By Barbara Fister. So much of the contemporary academic library collection is digital – but most of these digital texts look like journals and books as they were published before the Internet existed, with some exceptions. Quite a few of the books in digital packages lack images because rights weren’t secured covering electronic editions and, I guess, vendors hoped nobody would notice. (They have.) This is just one of the reasons why I’ve been skeptical of subscribing to ebook packages. Read more...
27 avril 2015
We Gather Together
By Barbara Fister. Not long ago, when returning from a conference, the driver of the shuttle I was taking from the airport asked me whether I’d been on vacation. When I told her I was returning from a library conference, she was astonished. “Librarians have conferences?” I don’t always think on my feet, so I never found out why she found that so surprising. Read more...
27 avril 2015
EU and Google
By Tracy Mitrano. Because this action will likely stretch out for a long time, this blog post is not intended to be definitive on the subject but an introduction. At first blush, there are three main reasons why the E.U. antitrust action against Google is significant to U.S. higher education. Read more...27 avril 2015
Millennials Want to Connect
By Khriseten Bellows. As a teacher of high school students approaching higher education next year, and as a student of some online learning myself, it is difficult for me to take the “all-in” approach of replacing the face-to-face connection of the classroom with online classes. Read more...27 avril 2015
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Digital Literacy
By Kriste Lindenmeyer. I have a somewhat unusual background for an academic historian. I was a college dropout, worked in business for several years, then returned to college, became a first-generation college graduate, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in American History. Read more...27 avril 2015
What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration
By Bharat Anand and Jan Hammond and V.G. Narayanan. In June 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX, its new online education initiative. At the time, the norm, increasingly, in many online courses was to create a “lean back”, individualized experience where students would primarily watch streamed video lectures that centered on experts. Stimulating lectures with star professors, perhaps, but lectures nonetheless — with a passive, individualized learner experience. We wanted to change that. Read more...27 avril 2015
Relationships Matter
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I was reading the recent piece in The Atlantic about the partnership between Starbucks and Arizona State University. The title is misleading because the program is so new that no one has yet graduated and “benefited” from having a degree, but it does present a nice click-bait headline, coupled with a framing narrative from a long-time, older service worker who can’t get ahead because she doesn’t have a degree. Read more...27 avril 2015
Scholarship By Any Other Name
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. “If you build it, they will come.”Most people will recognize this famous movie line, taken from Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner. The movie itself is based on the book Shoesless Joe by Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella. Kinsella wrote two kinds of fiction: fiction about baseball and fiction about Natives, or “Indians” as he would have called them. Read more...
27 avril 2015
Don’t Gloat When the Canary Dies
By Matt Reed. Robert Kelchen won Twitter yesterday with his observation that Corinthian Colleges’ move to close all of its remaining campuses will strand 16,000 students, in contrast to the closing of Sweet Briar College, which will strand about 700. Read more...
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