By Joshua Kim. This fall I’ve been having lots of discussions with colleagues across a diverse set of institutions.
These conversations often end up at the same place. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future by John Scalzi
Lexicon: A Novel by Max Barry
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Over Thanksgiving break I didn’t think I didn’t read e-mail, and I didn’t think about higher education. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. 61 Ways You Know You Are Talking To An Instructional Designer:
1.  They are scarily good at listening. 
2.  They will always first try to clearly establish your goals. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley. Published in October of 2015.
The biggest higher ed story is the story that we never talk about. That is the story of how foundational introductory courses have improved dramatically in the past decade, and how these improvements are set to accelerate. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. 2020 has been a year that we have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving holiday when it comes to technology.
Remember those technology doldrums 5 years ago, when the most exciting technology news of 2016 was an iPad the size of airline tray table? Those were grim tech times indeed. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel.  Published in September of 2014
I’ve written before on the need for higher ed people to push back on the power of the collapse meme. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory by John Seabrook. Published in October of 2015.
The kind of higher education that I love is higher education unplugged. Education at a human rather than a technological scale. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Are you also a student of higher education?
What are the books about higher education that are in your library?
I went through my Amazon and Audible library’s to figure out which books that I own on higher education. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. When it comes to education, could digital be the enemy of physical scale?
When I am thinking of scale in education, I am thinking about all those things that we have traditionally done together (synchronously) with many people.  And when I say many people, I mean somewhere between say 50 and 5,000. Read more...