Putting Social Media on Pause for a Week
By Eric Stoller. 13 years of non-stop digital engagement.
When Facebook came out in 2004, I joined, and immediately filled out my profile and started adding friends. More...
A Week Without Social Media – Here's What I Learned
By Eric Stoller. 7 days sans Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat et al.
Putting social media on pause for a week sounds easy. I've never felt that I couldn't live without social media. More...
Digital Engagement Builds Bridges and Flattens Hierarchies
By Eric Stoller. When Facebook first launched in 2004, there were quite a few members of the higher education community that said that Facebook would not ever be useful for anything related to teaching, learning, and/or enhancing the student experience. A prevalent idea at the time was that Facebook was a space that only held value for students and that it would not be acceptable to use in a professional/professorial capacity. More...
Less Is Still More on Twitter
By Eric Stoller. When Twitter first announced in September that they were going to test out a new 280 character limit, the response was less than stellar. The 140 character limit for a single tweet has always been a fundamental element to engaging on Twitter. More...
#WeAreHE - Fragmentation Will Damage UK Universities
By Eric Stoller. Since 2015, I've worked with 7 Russell Group Universities as part of my higher education consultancy. And, I've visited the campuses of 4 other RG institutions. That leaves me with 13 additional universities to visit (or work with) that are part of the UK's most well-known HE group. More...
Reading 'The Four' and Fearing Amazon's Digital Book Monopoly
By Joshua Kim. What can reading about the four horsemen of the digital economic apocalypse, Amazon/Apple/Facebook/Google, teach us about higher ed. More...
The Baumol Cost Disease Orthodoxy
By Joshua Kim. An alternative theory.
My Spidey-sense starts tingling every time I start to hear the same thing from everybody. Baumol’s cost disease as the explanation for the rising costs of higher education seems to be our latest orthodoxy. More...
My First 5 Tech Steps at an Economically Vulnerable Institution
By Joshua Kim. The academic conference that I wish I could attend would be one focused exclusively on economical vulnerable institutions. We would spend 3 days learning from the leadership, faculty, and students of these schools - and then work together as colleagues and collaborators to try to come up with creative ways in which might help. More...
Does Avoiding Social Media Limit An Alt-Ac Career?
By Joshua Kim. The cost of staying away from Twitter, Facebook and blogs in an emerging and networked profession. More...