Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers
Savo Heleta, The Conversation, 2016/03/14
I have never understood the desire to speak only amongst one's colleagues, but perhaps this is more my journalistic self speaking than my scientific self. This article makes what is to me the very good point that if academics want to have any impact on the world, they have to start talking to other people. And, I would add, they have to start listening to other people (and maybe even giving them credit for their work). More...