By Joshua Kim. This week two stories caught my attention. The first story is about the closing of the Memphis College of Art (MCA). The second story is about the WyzeCam, a new $20 internet connected security camera. More...
Listening to Audiobooks While Watching Sports
By Joshua Kim. My happiest moments come when I’m able to watch a sporting event - either live or on TV - with an audiobook playing in my ears. Living in a college town affords me frequent opportunities to attend high level sports for shockingly low costs. At every live basketball, soccer, hockey, field hockey, or football game (the teams I follow), I’ll listen to an audiobook while watching the game. More...
'Dream Hoarders' and Higher Education
By Joshua Kim. Higher education people don’t agree on much. We have passionate arguments about everything from the proper role of technology in learning to how we might treat our (perhaps?) self-inflicted cost disease. More...
How "Everybody Lies" Might Change the Social Sciences
By Joshua Kim. Is big data really changing everything? Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz thinks so. Not only is big data altering the landscape of advertising (Google and Facebook) and retail (Amazon), big data has the potential to revolutionize the social sciences. More...
'Insight,' Self-Awareness, and the Academic
By Joshua Kim. What would Homo Academicus make of Tasha Eurich’s insightful new book Insight? Ideally, Insight should have us all deeply worried. Realistically, maybe not so much. More...
Guest Review: 'Rocket Fantastic'
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Secondary Effects of Internationalization in India
Secondary effects of the internationalization in India are realized in two ways: foreign students from different backgrounds interact and influence each other; foreign students and members of the local community have a mutual impact on one another. More...
India's Drive for Internationalization
Special “education zones” in different regionswill help India not only attract international students, but perhaps curb the outflow of Indian students. More...
Student Loan Interest Rate Policy
"Student Loan Interest Rate Policy" follows last week's blog on "Headaches of the English Student Loan Program" and further examines the challenges of getting university financing policy right. More...
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