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Category Archives: Higher Education
DIY U: 'POP!' Goes the Bubble
A while back, I suggested that there might be a bubble in the higher education market, and that students taking on large amounts of debt to go to non-elite schools could be analogous to sub-prime mortgage customers. Well, somebody else … Continue reading
The Coming Digital Textbook Wave
Xplana has published some interesting growth projections on digital textbooks in the U.S. higher education market. If you’ve been frustrated by the slow adoption rate, then you’ll like what they have to say. First of all, and unsurprisingly, they see … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!)
Tagged digital textbooks, E-book, edunomics, Textbook, Xplana
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DIY U: Digital Apprenticeship and the Modern Guild
A while back, I had the pleasure of chatting with Paul Lefrere. Paul is a guy who thinks about large-scale questions like, “How can we create and fill a couple of million green jobs in a country within a couple … Continue reading
Come to the Sakai 2010 Conference in Denver
If you are Sakai-curious and want to know more about the platform and the community, you should come to the conference, which is going to be June 15-17 in Denver this year. I am delighted to say that our keynote … Continue reading
DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?
Update: Coincidentally, Anya Kamenetz just posted an interview in which she briefly compares the student loan situation with the real estate bubble here. When I opened my email the other day, I was greeted by the following blurb from Today’s … Continue reading
