By Joshua Kim. Wherever I go I play a little game in my head. I look at the jobs that people are doing around me, and I ask myself, “will a robot being doing that job in the future?”. Read more...
14 juin 2015
14 juin 2015
8 Reasons To End The Report Out
By Joshua Kim. Our colleague Romy Ruukel, Associate Director of the Digital Learning Initiatives at Boston University, has a great post about the relationship between changes in how we think about learning and how we design our conferences. Read more...
14 juin 2015
NS’s “Seveneves” Is Too Short
By Joshua Kim. Seveneves is the antidote to the compression of our attention spans. What NS does in 880 pages (32 hours on audio) is create a whole new world. He needs each of those pages to construct the places that are born after the moon explodes. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Pushing Back on the Dismantling of Higher Ed Narrative
By Joshua Kim. Reading the Rolling Stone article What’s Left After Higher Education Is Dismantled will leave you nothing but depressed. Don't be. Our future is better than you think. Read more...
14 juin 2015
International Scholarships: Regional Studies in Africa
By Damtew Teferra. The manner in which scholarships are rolled out has evolved as higher education delivery and opportunity have diversified on the African continent. This article is prompted by a new “variant” of traditional scholarship programs unveiled recently by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Eastern Africa, supported by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. At the invitation of DAAD, I served as a member of the panel of experts to select East African universities for the competitive sub-regional scholarship which gave me an opportunity to observe the initiative up close. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Testing
By Herman Berliner. I view serving on my local school board as a privilege. We have an excellent school district and a community and a board that are committed to enhancing that excellence. Our administrative team is very strong and our teachers are a tremendous asset. We are not complacent; rather, we are moving forward from a position of great strength which serves the aspirations of our students very well. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Math Geek Mom: Share a Moment with a City
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In statistics, we often talk about probability values being calculated by looking at the relative frequency of certain outcomes from an experiment when compared with the number of trials of that experiment. I found myself thinking of this recently as I surfed the web trying to find a value for the number of NBA teams who went on to win a championship after having a record similar to that the Cavaliers currently have. Read more...
14 juin 2015
A Second Look at Fathers
By Laura Tropp. Recently, my son wanted me to attend an event in which he was participating. I told him I’d do my best to finish up my meetings and get home in time. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Family Travel
By Susan O'Doherty. As I have described here before, our family loves to travel, and we travel well together. We took Ben to Europe for the first time when he was ten, and every year since then I have posted about how grateful I am for another year when he still enjoys traveling with his parents. Read more...
14 juin 2015
Aches and Pains
By Susan O'Doherty. The three weeks before we left for our vacation in Paris were difficult ones. The psychiatrist friend from whom I sublet my private practice office informed me that the landlord was raising the rent so drastically she can't afford to keep the office. The club where my musical improv team performed every week suddenly discontinued its improv program, also for real estate reasons. Read more...
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