By Kris Olds. Our European MOOCs in Global Context Workshop (19-20 June 2013 @ UW-Madison) went very well, in my biased opinion. The event was kicked off by a provocative and well-crafted keynote lecture by George Siemens of Athabasca University. As I noted in the workshop webpage. Read more...
By Liz Reisberg. There is little that stresses me more than preparing to teach or give a talk in a country where I am not familiar with the culture. I have been doing research on higher education in Argentina for almost 25 years. I know quite a bit about the history of education, reforms during recent decades, how the system is structured, attitudes about teaching and learning, etc. I have a pretty good feel for the controversies, issues being debated, and challenges faced by most universities. All of this helps me to plan my work better and target themes appropriately. I also know what issues I can joke about and which ones I dare not. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Funny how sometimes you read an article and it feels like a smack on the forehead. Of course! Why didn’t I think of that before? Usually that means you had thought of it before, in vague, inchoate terms, but somebody else has put it into words. Bam. That’s what happened when I read the preprint of an article by Wendy Holliday and Jim Rogers in portal: Libraries and the Academy titled “Talking About Information Literacy: The Mediating Role of Discourse in a College Writing Classroom.” Read more...By Barbara Fister. Today I found myself revisiting a blog post by Doug Armato of the University of Minnesota Press just as my Twitter stream was responding to the American Historical Society's new statement on why historians’ dissertations must be protected from the public eye. Mark Sample remembered it and posted it to Twitter. Public streams of thought have these eddies and undercurrents that sweep back and bring up things from the past to bob along in the onward rush of ideas. Which is, itself, something of an example of what Doug Armato was describing as the way scholarship works today. Read more...
By Margaret Andrews. As the late MIT economist Rudi Dornbusch once said, “... things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.”By Margaret Andrews. Strategy is part idea, part analysis, part insight, part planning, part drive, and part leadership. And a big part of leadership is inspiring greatness in yourself and others. There are so many great, inspiring readings and videos out there and Dave Kerpen has taken the time to curate some of his favorites on LinkedIn. There are a few obvious videos/speeches missing from the list, but it is a wonderful curation. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. Sometimes what is most interesting about attention to an issue is not the attention itself but what it spurs and stimulates subsequently. That has been my experience since the NYT published the article about hacking on university networks. Discussion within Cornell and on national list services raises a number of questions and illuminates aspects of our work that may not have been present to us in such bold relief. Read more...By Tracy Mitrano. I have written enough about this issue that has no need of rehearsing here. So allow my comments on yesterday's vote to be brief. Fix the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in such a way that Internet technologies will comport with Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to correct the most significant problems inherent in the "Patriot Act." Read more...
By Ola Salem. Emiratis have been appointed as directors at branches of the Higher Colleges of Technology in five cities. They replace expatriates who held the posts at campuses in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. Mohammed Al Shamsi, HCT chancellor, said the appointments reflected directives by the country's leadership to promote and support Emiratisation. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
