Inside Higher Ed
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Inside Higher Ed is a free daily online publication that covers a variety of college and university issues. The publication, headquartered in Washington, D.C., was founded in 2004 by Kathlene Collins, a business manager formerly of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and two of the former top editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman. Scott McLemee, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, writes the weekly "Intellectual Affairs" column. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Fabrice Florin
Last Edit:
Apr 15, 2010 - 9:35 AM PDT
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Colleges sell naming rights to bathrooms
For $2,000, a Dixie State College of Utah donor could have been the namesake of a porcelain castle complete with a locking door, a generous supply of off-brand toilet paper ...via Dan Gillmor -
News: JSTOR for Life
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Killing Peer Review
When a cadre of international scientific research powerhouses announced last month that they were teaming up to create a top-shelf, peer-reviewed free journal in the medical ...via Jeremy Caplan (t) -
Online and Incomplete
Online education is all the rage with politicians looking for ways to expand the capacity of public colleges to educate more students -- on a budget. Tim Pawlenty, the ... -
Cutting the Cord
The National Science Digital Library had ambitious goals when it started in 2000: create a massive open repository of STEM learning materials culled from projects funded by ...via Mark Pegrum (t) -
Literacy in the Digital Age: Part III
To ask what is “digital literacy” is to ask first from what “literacy” derives? It is inexorably intertwined with history -- articulated self-consciousness. ...via Howard Rheingold -
Corporate Control of Cyberspace
Part of the global push towards the privatization of the "general intellect" is the recent trend in the organization of cyberspace towards so-called "cloud computing." Little ...via Shakthi Sivanathan (t) -
The Shirley Sherrods of Academe?
Videos posted by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart appear to have ended the teaching career of an adjunct at the University of Missouri -- even as university officials ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Skimming the Surface
ATLANTA -- An analysis of research papers written in first-year composition courses at 15 colleges reveals that many students simply copy chunks of text from the sources they ...via Jeremy Caplan (t) -
'Too Much to Know'
Don't ask whether I checked Twitter or The New York Times home page while composing this article and I won't ask how many tabs are currently open in your browser window, or ...via David Weinberger
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