By Joshua Kim. To realize our preferred future of higher education, we have to create a vision of it. Growing up in one college town and spending my career in others, I took for granted until very recently that college towns are unique platforms for learning. More...

By Joshua Kim. The agony of airports and the joy of staying home. More...

By Joshua Kim. The change that we seem to talk about least in higher education is perhaps the most important. That is the transition from scarce to abundant energy. More...

By Joshua Kim. Three times I’ve followed my spouse, an academic physician and medical school professor, to a new school. Three times I’ve had to figure out how to keep my own academic career going in a town where I arrived with no job. More...

By Joshua Kim. If all goes well, my wife and I will be attending college graduations in 2020 and then again in 2021.  We are the proud parents of second-year and first-year college-going daughters.  Our nest is as empty as our tuition bills are high. More...

By Joshua Kim. The big idea that has captured much of our collective imagination is that the robots are coming to take our jobs.  Well, maybe not our jobs - as higher ed people seem convinced that no A.I. could ever do what they do.  But everyone else's job. More...

By Joshua Kim. Nowhere is the love of Star Trek more fervent than in those who work at the intersection of technology and learning. In edtech, we are on a mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no one has gone before. More...

By Joshua Kim. The second installment of Quartz's four-part series The Vanishing University claims that “college textbooks are going the way of Netflix." More...

By Joshua Kim. The old story was that MOOCs are just another overhyped educational technology, one more example of interests outside of the academy (investors, technologists) seeking to “disrupt college” without any true understanding of how higher education actually works. More...

By Joshua Kim. How can I not take a crack at answering John Warner’s question in his must-read response to the unfortunately headlined Quartz piece, Imagine How Great Universities Could be Without all Those Human Teachers. More...