It’s a new year (by at least one calendar, anyway), and we’ve got some resolutions. One of them: putting our students front and center. We’d like to begin featuring student profiles on our blog once more, and that means we need some willing collaborators. What we get: the ability to show off some of our […]
Month: January 2013
Course O’ the Week – BUS206 Available on iTunes U
When I was a kid, I managed information with one of these, but age and wisdom have a way of complicating things. These days, working with Management Information Systems covers things like using email, databases, content management software…in short, “interactions between organized data and people.” People in the workplace use this stuff every day. Without […]
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What’s your magic number?
Here’s a one-off article; this one got us thinking, as talk about college costs is apt to do. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the other day on a proposal in the California state legislature to institute a ‘$10,000 degree‘ — following the leads of Texas and Florida, two other populous, high-GDP U.S. states. We’ve […]
POLSC231 Video Experiment
We are trying an experiment in our POLSC231: Introduction to American Politics course, and would like to hear from you! We have set all the resources labeled as ‘lectures‘ to open up in a lightbox (pop-up video frame) on the same screen, rather than in a new tab or new window. Give it a try at […]
January Newsletter- Happy New Year!
Hello, and happy (Gregorian) new year! It was in September that we last tossed out a students & friends newsletter, and we regret that the October, November, and December issues were all eaten by the office dog. A lovely version of January’s letter went out this morning via our mailing list, which you’re quite welcome […]