What’s your ideal city to study in? University experts QS have released their annual student cities rankings, based on criteria including affordability, student experience, job prospects and friendliness to international students. More...
Scratch beneath the Theresa May portrait row, and you’ll find lazy ageism
Students have been having this kind of debate for decades. This one is civil by comparison, and yet it’s become a ‘scandal’. More...
A Theory of Higher Ed Worry
By Joshua Kim. What do you worry about?
Regarding the future of the industry in which they work, journalists are the only people more pessimistic than academics. More...
25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera
By Joshua Kim. And why this would be good for both universities and for lifelong learners.
Y’all need to tell me if I’m crazy. From where I sit in the ivory tower, free of the burdens of either useful knowledge or accountability for my prognostications, it seems obvious to me that LinkedIn / Microsoft should buy Coursera. More...
Kurlansky's 'Milk!' and the Food Biography Genre
By Joshua Kim. There are those amongst us that are guaranteed readers of Mark Kurlansky’s latest book Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas. We have read and loved all of Kurlansky’s previous deep dives into the history, biology, economics, politics, genetics, and literature of specific foods. More...
Why I'm Stubbornly Optimistic About the Future of Small Colleges
By Joshua Kim. Last week we learned that yet another small college, Oregon's Marylhurst University, is closing. More...
Will Google Duplex Evolve Into a Virtual Teaching Assistant?
By Joshua Kim. Yes, first be horrified, but then try to think about where Georgia Tech could take this technology. More...
Georgia Tech and the Scholarship of Institutional Learning Innovation
By Joshua Kim. “Deliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education” as a primary source for a new academic discipline. More...
The Good Life and Open Online Learning
By Joshua Kim. MOOCs after the hype.
What is fascinating - at least to me - is how little of a deal is made of MOOC version of the course. More...
'The Signals Are Talking' and the Future of Higher Ed
By Joshua Kim. Eleven hours and 2 minutes is the time that it takes to listen to the audiobook version of God Save Texas. Those hours will be amongst the most enjoyable 11 hours you will spend this year. More...