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Libraries Receiving a Shrinking Piece of the University Pie

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:38:52 -0800

Libraries Receiving a Shrinking Piece of the University Pie

Recommended: 4:00-16:00

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:25:24 -0800

Recommended: 4:00-16:00

About the Emerging Battle Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:22 -0800

About the Emerging Battle Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives

Envisioning a Post-Campus America

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:50 -0800

Envisioning a Post-Campus America

Mozilla's (Working) Learning Design Principles

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:12:43 -0800

Mozilla's (Working) Learning Design Principles

The Value of Making Reading Hard

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:24:38 -0800

The Value of Making Reading Hard

Personal Tutors and Paying for Good Grades: Roland Fryer's Experiments on Children

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:24:13 -0800

Personal Tutors and Paying for Good Grades: Roland Fryer's Experiments on Children

How to freak out the Secret Service at the White House science...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:19:14 -0800

How to freak out the Secret Service at the White House science fair

The long tail may not hit a target: High school teachers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:28 -0800

I’m attending the NSF CE21 Community meeting this Thursday and Friday. I have been asked to lead a session on Friday afternoon on distance education in CS for teachers. I was encouraged to talk about just a couple concrete examples, then leave the session open for discussion. The question is which examples? Here’s a more specific question that leads to this blog post: Are the on-line Stanford CS classes a good example to talk about?

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Proper Spelling? Its Tyme to Let Luce!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:28 -0800

Photo: Bartholomew Cooke See also: Spelling: A Rebuttal From Wired’s Copydesk A misspelled tweet describing a crush as adorable is changed to say she is “affordable. ” The text message “I like himm” is changed to “I like Himmler. ” Damn you, autocorrect! By now most of us have had unfortunate experiences with autocorrection software—innocuous messages turned anatomical or lunch plans morphed into love notes. (Pro tip: Don’t ever abbreviate Wednesday.

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The (Not So) Inevitable Future of Digital Textbooks

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:27 -0800

Hack (Higher) Education Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as “inevitable. ” After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses to digital textbooks. What assumptions are we making that lead us to think that digital textbooks are what students want, let alone need?

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A New Prelude to Student Debt: Food Stamps

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:27 -0800

Like most clichés that arise by virtue of their accuracy, there are most certainly cash-strapped college students who owe a debt of gratitude to the ever-affordable ramen noodle. However, as tuition costs continue to soar — and part-time work remains hard to find — more and more college students apparently are turning to an unexpected source for help: food stamps.

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Why Do We Listen to “Experts” Who Have No Expertise in Education?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:26 -0800

Shaun Johnson’s article, “Climate Scientists, Educators, and Why We Avoid Consulting the Experts,” addresses an important issue that frustrates me on a daily basis—whose voices have the most influence in education?

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A Report from EduCon 2.4

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:25 -0800

As I wrote in a post two years ago, K-12 education matters to those of us in higher education for many reasons, but especially because our missions are at core the same, and because we are reliant on K-12 teachers sending us students prepared for our classes. This past weekend I attended EduCon 2.

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The Future of Peer Review

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:24 -0800

This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia. edu — an online community that revolves around researchers and their work. Instant distribution Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research. Right now the time lag between finishing a paper, and the relevant worldwide research community seeing it, is between 6 months and 2 years.

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The Legacy of Alan Lomax

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:23 -0800

In 1952 Folkways Records released a set of very strange, very powerful old recordings under the title Anthology of American Folk Music. Essentially, the Anthology was comprised of dozens of blues, folk, gospel, and jazz songs, divided into three two-LP sets labeled — eccentrically and inconsistently — “Ballads,” “Social Music,” and “Songs. ” Accompanying the records were some highly peculiar liner notes.

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One of the Nation's Top Historians Decides It's Time to Embrace Wikipedia

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:00 -0800

The world of academic scholarship — particularly the field of history — has at times had a strained relationship with the massive collaborative project that is Wikipedia. In 2007, for example, the history department at Middlebury College banned citations to the encyclopedia. How could the free-for-all of the web produce a reliable source? It was thought to be too susceptible to inaccuracy, whether as the result of malicious or ideological manipulation or just pure sloppiness.

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OKGo + Sesame Street = Awesome

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:46:46 -0800

OKGo + Sesame Street = Awesome

Really awesome diagram of Web literacy by Mozilla’s...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:56:45 -0800

Really awesome diagram of Web literacy by Mozilla’s Michelle Levesque

Web literacy? (v0.1)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:13:09 -0800

Michelle Levesque asked for feedback on this: Mozilla’s Web Literacy Skills (v0. 1 alpha). I wanted to respond as soon as possible as I think she’s done some great work here. I’ve visualised the text in her post and then tweaked it slightly to provide suggest the direction I’d take it: Click through for a larger version on Flickr.

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