General Assembly Gives Higher Education a Start-up Vibe
GA may look like Apple's version of a college campus, but it's a valuable complement to traditional higher education.Permalink
View Article5 Digital Mapping Projects That Visualize History
Here are some of my favorite digital mapping projects for teaching and studying American history.Permalink
View Article5 Digital Mapping Projects That Visualize Literature
In the second of a 3-part series, I share my favorite digital mapping projects for teaching and studying literature.Permalink
View ArticleWhat Digital Mapping Projects Reveal About Higher Education
In the third of a three-part series, I consider what digital mapping projects reveal about the values—and value—of traditional higher education institutions.Permalink
View ArticleHumanizing Maps: An Interview with Johanna Drucker
I spoke with Johanna Drucker, the academic who quite literally wrote the book on visualizations.Permalink
View ArticleOnline Education: The Year Ahead
I'm hopeful that online education will grow smaller, smarter, and more social in the years ahead.Permalink
View ArticleSustaining the 9/11 Digital Archive
Using the September 11 Digital Archive as a case study, I survey the unique challenges posed by born-digital materials.Permalink
View ArticleWhy I'm Against the Online Lecture
The online lecture is uniquely predisposed to fail. I welcome the online seminar.Permalink
View ArticleModPo: Long Live the Online Seminar
ModPo illustrates that the seminar is not only compatible with online education, it's an upgrade to it.Permalink
View ArticleDistance Learning Fraud Not Limited to Online Education
Thinking about online extension programs in the context of correspondence courses reveals some troubling parallels.Permalink
View ArticleBeyond Academia.edu: Taking Control of Your Online Presence Beyond...
Consider these free, open-source tools when you create and collaborate online.Permalink
View ArticleNYPL Digitized 187K Images, But That's Not the Whole Story
Making 187,000 digital, high-res images available to visitors is less the apogee than the continuation of existing work.Permalink
View ArticleTeaching by Ear: How a Professor Uses an iPhone to Tune Up Composition
This method of composition foregrounds the aurality of writing and provides a model for systemizing student feedback.Permalink
View ArticleWhy I'm Optimistic U.S. Public Schools Can Close the Digital Divide
There is no greater challenge to social and economic inequality than expanding access to information.Permalink
View Article5 Tools That Make Managing, Sharing Citations Less of a Headache
This week, I share five reference managers that will help you collect and export citations for free.Permalink
View ArticleBlack Markets and Secret Thumb Drives: How Cubans Get Online
In 2007, it was illegal to purchase a PC in Cuba. Now Cubans use a variety of crafty solutions to get online. How did we get here? Will Fenton travels to Havana to find out.Permalink
View ArticleArrested for Providing Web Access: Q&A With Ex-Cuban Prisoner Alan Gross
Smuggling, espionage, and devious plots. Former Cuban prisoner Alan Gross, who was arrested in 2009 for creating three Internet networks, corrects the record.Permalink
View ArticleWhat Cuba Reveals About the Gig Economy
Cuba's vigorous embrace of the sharing economy presents a cautionary tale for America's techno-utopians.Permalink
View ArticleMIT Just Released an Online Learning Report Worth Reading
I examined the report's four key recommendations for online education. Some of what I found gives me pause.Permalink
View ArticleDon't Dismiss Georgia Tech's $6,600 Online Master's Degree
I'm not about to let my ideological reservations foreclose my curiosity, especially given that so many Online Master of Science Computer Science students praise the program.Permalink
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