Good Monday, everyone! This week we start out by exploring a story – a podcast, actually – about providing university students and faculty with their own personal web domains. University of Mary Washington has piloted A Domain of One’s Own to hand over “digital citizenship” to their co-eds and integrate an online presence to their 4-year college experience and […]
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Reducing the cost of higher education is a debate that is around for the foreseeable future. In our first entry this week, Texas and Florida have laid down a gubernatorial challenge to their state schools that begs the question: Isn’t “gubernatorial” kind of a funny word? But in all seriousness, is asking brick and mortar […]
or, The Economics of Individual Non-purchasing Decisions Undeniably clever titling aside, the news is this: Peter Tsigaris, Associate Professor of Economics at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia (who, disclaimer, also happens to consult for us), is using Saylor.org materials next term to support his Introductory Microeconomics course. “I did not order a textbook for […]
Where did the day go? We found these updates to be most intriguing today and we hope you do too! PS – Bonus points if you recognize any 90s movie references below. And yes, using Wikiquote is cheating. Build An Audience: Free Online Music Marketing Seminar (Killyourstereo.com) Musicians, let me bring you up to speed. MTV’s […]
In the first offering below, Peter Harsha of the Computing Research Association clues us in to the idea that fluency in computers is about more than what we might pick up in high school (or even college) classes; it’s about “knowing…how to use a computer to solve problems.” Folks once thought that personal computing was […]
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