By Joshua Kim. Earlier this month, I signed up for the commercial-free streaming option of CBS All Access. As part of this $10 a month plan, you get a 48 hour free trial period. If you cancel your subscription within 48 hours then you are not charged. More...
5 Reasons that Electric Bikes Are Like Blended Learning
By Joshua Kim. My new obsession is electric bikes. Not that I own one.
Being an academic, I’ll need to do 10,000 hours of research before I am comfortable contemplating any action. More...
How the Future of Higher Ed Looks from Whistler
By Joshua Kim. Perhaps the best place to closely observe the MOOC community has been at the 2017 edX Global Forum. True-believers, skeptics, evangelists, and hanger-ons of the MOOC world have gathered in Whistler, British Columbia. More...
3 Questions About 'Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism’
By Joshua Kim. Americana is U.S. economic history told through a present-day entrepreneurial lens. This is a book that just may cause a business major to switch to history. Or a history major to go into venture capitalism. More...
Will Open Online Education Disrupt the Master's Admissions Funnel?
By Joshua Kim. One question that I’m trying to get my head around while attending the 2017 edX Global Forum is if open online education is set to disrupt the master’s admission funnel. More...
Higher Ed Differentiation and 'The Power of Moments'
By Joshua Kim. At the beginning of each academic year our president hosts a College wide community cookout. Hamburgers and hot dogs are grilled. Music is played. Students, faculty, and staff get to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere - eating and chatting with each other. More...
The Strange Case of My Wife Going to an Academic Conference to Learn New Things
By Joshua Kim. Recently, I accompanied my wife to the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) conference. More...
3 Suboptimal Organizational Behaviors That We Will Never Fix
By Joshua Kim. I’m a big fan of the predictably irrational genre. The book Predictably Irrational is of course one example. That book explains why it is normal for individuals to make bad decisions. More...
'A World Made for Money' Is A Book That Will Drive You Crazy
By Joshua Kim. Is it ethical to recommend a book that you are sure will frustrate, and maybe even infuriate, anyone who follows your recommendation. More...
EdTech and a Broken Nest Thermostat
By Joshua Kim. This Thanksgiving weekend our Nest thermostat stopped working. For some reason known only to the Nest, or maybe Google (owner of Nest), our internet connected thermostat suddenly refused to speak with the internet. No matter what I did, the Nest would not find or connect to our home network. More...