Tag: academentia

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| May 19, 2014

on academic helicopters

David Graeber comments, in a brief follow-up to this essay, If you look at the lives and personalities of almost any of...

| March 25, 2011

and while I’m co-signing

This is exciting to hear about: Joseph Cohen says he’s fed up with Blackboard. The leading course-management software...

| March 14, 2011

mine and yours

Why do social media always have to be about social competition? Everyone on Facebook is aware of how many friends they...

| March 10, 2011

evaluated

My colleague Heather Whitney has a post up at ProfHacker about one aspect of student evaluations: their occasional lack...

| March 7, 2011

Crazy U

Let me tell you a few things about Andy Ferguson’s new book Crazy U: it’s well-researched, insightful,...

| October 12, 2010

a brief, random thought

This week, as I’m helping my students get their first major projects written, and dealing — I am long expert in...

| June 29, 2010

too much research

I couldn’t agree more with this call to reduce the amount of published academic research. Too much of what is...