By Joshua Kim. James DeVaney’s opening remarks at the Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners (HAIL) Storm gathering. Read more...
On Taking Road Trips and Reading ’Earning the Rockies’
By Joshua Kim. Why only reading books might not be enough to understand the world. Read more...
The Meaning of Popular Zombie Twitter Accounts
By Joshua Kim. 3 thoughts provoked by the microblogging undead. Read more...
Why Our Higher Ed Transformation Crowd Should Read 'The Upstarts’
By Joshua Kim. Uber, Airbnb, and postsecondary disruption thinking.
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone. Read more...
'Hit Makers' and Our Modern Content Renaissance
By Joshua Kim. Can we make a parallel argument to higher education?
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson. Read more...
Synthesis and Reactions to the 2017 NMC Horizon Report
By Joshua Kim. You don’t have time to read a 56 page report. Almost nothing that I could say could convince you to download, print, and devote a solid hour to the 2017 NMC Horizon Report. Read more...
Understanding the Trump Win by Reading 'An Extraordinary Time'
By Joshua Kim. Modern politics and the post-1973 economy. Read more...
Why EdTech Evangelists Should Read 'Rethink'
By Joshua Kim. One example where the edtech crowd would have been well-served by taking the main lesson of Rethink to heart is in the world of MOOCs. The people who put together the MOOC platform companies were often too slow to place their new idea - free online education at scale - within a long tradition of distance learning. Read more...
Principles, Values, and the Academic Library in the Age of Trump
By Joshua Kim. Never have our academic librarians been more essential to the core educational, discovery, and service mission of our institutions as during the current political climate. Read more...
Will EdTech Learn Anything From Fitbit?
By Joshua Kim. Stock in the company that makes the Fitbit activity tracker has dropped by 70% since the company’s IPO in June of 2015. We learned today that Fitbit plans to lay off 6% of its workforce. Read more...