A Chromebook MS Word Online Fail Story
By Joshua Kim. My MacBook Air is in the shop for repairs.
Somehow the com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService service is going crazy, pegging the %CPU at over 150%. The result has been that the Air freezes up when attaching a document to an e-mail, or even sometimes saving a Text file. Clearly sub-optimal. Read more...
Franzen’s ‘Purity’ and the New iPhone
By Joshua Kim. Have you downloaded Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Purity yet. Read more...
16 Questions About Thought Leadership and Open Online Learning
By Joshua Kim. 1. Is open online learning the new journal?
2. Is open online learning the new conference?
3. Is the creation and running of a MOOC the new way to plant a thought leadership flag. Read more...
3 Higher Ed Lessons From Chelsea Market
By Joshua Kim. My family spent a terrific afternoon this past weekend at Chelsea Market in NYC. Have you ever been. Read more...
Alt-Ac Challenges, Continued
By Joshua Kim. First, the column does a good job of recognizing alt-ac professionals in teaching, learning, and research-related roles, and I think it is also worth pointing out that we have alt-ac colleagues in other types of roles as well. Read more...
Podcasting the Academy, Except not the Academic Parts
By John Warner. There are thousands of podcasts. Some are based in academia. We thought it was a good idea to add to the pile. You could too.
Various Breads and Butters began with the time-honored two-guys-shooting-the-shit model. Read more...
When August Brings Many Losses
By Julie R. Enszer. It began with a simple query from my wife, “What happened to all of your keys?” While she was traveling for work, I had returned the three keys to the university that had filled the real estate of my keychain. More...
The Problem With the Tinder Story
By Janine Utell. For some reason this year, the annual tidal wave of back-to-school news stories has bothered me more than usual. The story about the Duke students refusing to read Fun Home. The story about the frat guys who thought the best way to welcome newcomers to their campus was to drape their house with sexually inappropriate and vaguely threatening messages scrawled on bedsheets. More...
Internationalization at the European Periphery
By Anonymous. The World View is pleased to publish a conversation between Daniel Kontowski and Philip G. Altbach in four parts. These conversations were initiated by Daniel for a Polish audience and will be published in Gazeta Wyborcza in Polish in a longer version. The dialog considers international strategy from a Polish perspective. Read more...
