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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It’s a whole new week, and that means a whole new iTunes U course! This week we flip the switch and give teachers some homework. Educators nationwide can get a leg up on the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with our COMMON CORE 101 course. COMMON CORE 101 aims to provide educators with an overview of […]
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 […]
It’s a whole new week, and that means a whole new iTunes U course! This week, we delve once more into the dismal science with ECON101: Principles of Microeconomics. ECON102 (Macroeconomics) is already available on iTunes U, which brings us up to a full introductory year of Econ available entirely on your iOS device! You […]
For those back from holiday, we hope it was a good one, and for one and all, our best wishes for a wonderful week ahead. Some heavy topics ahead…we’ll touch on professors’ salaries, gender equity in promotions, academic freedom, and (ugh!) human error…we end on some high notes. If you find food for thought, by […]