
Top academic in ambitious bid to groom future scholars

Core values can serve as a compass in your daily work in higher education. They can help guide you in the right direction when the landscape is complex or foggy, and being proactive about implementing policies that support core higher education values may even help your institution avoid some of this difficult terrain altogether. More...
Style: a Pleasure for the Reader, or the Writer?
Because I write for an audience every day (a discipline that wonderfully focuses the mind) I find myself attending to questions of style on a regular basis. According to the author, the vast majority of students cannot write (or, at least, cannot write clearly). More...
Virtual Worlds are Real Worlds
Raction to an article in the Guardian about online worlds titled Get a Life. The author's point is simple, and one with which I am in agreement: virtual world are real. They are just as real, in fact, as the 'real world'. More...
Learning through a collective experience by taking part in group activities, such as hunting, gathering, and sharing, has always been a natural, “organic,” and “experiential” process where new skills and knowledge, if benefitting the whole group, are accepted, shared, and propagated. More...