75 Million Reasons To Invest In Educators
By Joshua Kim. What lessons should we be learning from the closure of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning (ITL)? We will all have many conclusions from the ITL story (what are yours?), but for me the big takeaways are all about how we think of innovation in higher education. More...
Higher Education Leaders and the Falling Total Fertility Rate
By Joshua Kim. Did this 2/13/18 NYTimes headline catch the attention of college leaders throughout the land. More...
'The Wizard and the Prophet' and our EdTech Conversation
By Joshua Kim. How an early candidate for the best book of 2018 made me reconsider how I think about technology in education. More...
Committee Work: A Tale of Two Academics
By Joshua Kim. Why a traditional academic must constantly so “no," while an alternative academic looks for opportunities to say “yes”. More...
February Fiction
By Joshua Kim. Fans of spy books will have probably already discovered The Red Sparrow Trilogy. If you enjoy the espionage genre, or simply appreciate a well written thriller, I recommend that you read this series. More...
Creating SOPI: The Scholarship of Postsecondary Innovation
By Joshua Kim. Investigating, and generalizing, from the Texas Institute for Transformational Learning story. More...
Learning Designers as Digital Nomads
By Joshua Kim. A quick Google search on digital nomads brought up tons of articles. There is a great February 2018 piece in the NYTimes Magazine called, When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office. A recent Outside Magazine piece is called Is the 'Digital Nomad' Life as Good as It Sounds. More...
Reflecting on the Original Big Idea for MOOCs
By Joshua Kim. Six years ago, inspired by a big idea to democratize higher education, the University of Michigan (U-M) became a founding partner of Coursera. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) were born. While the issuance of MOOC death certificates by skeptics is only rivaled in frequency by those filed by South Park writers for Kenny, MOOCs consistently find ways to survive and indeed thrive in nurturing environments. More...
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