Friday Fragments - August 2, 2018
EDUCAUSE and Two Decades of Higher Ed IT Moments
By Joshua Kim. EDUCAUSE is the professional association for higher ed IT professionals. It was formed in 1998 with the merger of CAUSE and Educom. To commemorate it’s 20th anniversary, EDUCAUSE solicited feedback from the Association’s membership on "the most significant moments (e.g., developments, activities) in higher ed IT over the last twenty years”. More...
Why Higher Ed People Should Read 'The Billionaire Raj'
By Joshua Kim. And why the future of higher ed is Indian. More...
Seeing The New Academics
By Joshua Kim. A tweet, a blog post, and the work of making non-faculty educators visible. More...
Robot Burger Makers and Adaptive Learning Platforms
By Joshua Kim. 1 technology, 2 futures.
The future of higher education can be found at Creator, a new restaurant in San Francisco. Actually, 2 futures. More...
Higher Ed Fragility and the Surprising Story of Best Buy
By Joshua Kim. For those of us who work at colleges and universities who don’t have tenure - which is most of us - life doesn’t seem all that secure. We read about the 80 Staff Layoffs at Northwestern, and we think that could be us. If you want to really depress yourself, do a search of “layoffs” on IHE (or just click this link), and then come back and tell us about your mood. More...
Will Tomorrow's College Students Not Know How to Use Physical Keyboards?
By Joshua Kim. Recently, I ran across an article on Hacker News (do you read Hacker News?) from a Japanese news site: A New Digital Divide: Young People Who Can’t Use Keyboards. Apparently, a growing number of Japanese students never learned to type of a physical keyboard, having only been exposed to small virtual keyboards on their smartphones. More...
Robot Bartenders and the Future of Work
By Joshua Kim. Higher ed seems to be a hotbed of worry about a robot-driven jobless future. This is at least true of the edtech people with which I hang around. More...