[Original posts are my thoughts and not those of my employer or clients. Typically, they are generalizable across higher education and…
OER disrupting textbook marketplace
Denise Wydra says New York state’s pursuit of free and inexpensive course materials is changing the traditional textbook landscape in…
Using digital storytelling to transform learning
Three University of Minnesota staff members write that by employing multimedia and expert sources, students consider issues from multiple viewpoints…
Experts react to ambitious National University plans for personalized learning
The California nonprofit is spending $20 million to create a platform blending several emergent innovations. Experts see promise but challenges, too.…
Physicists smash record with world’s fastest X-ray pulse of light
Researchers have just broken a world record with their demonstration of the fastest X-ray pulse ever developed. Source: Physicists smash…
What do instructional designers do?
When J. Ann Dumas, now a senior lecturer in Pennsylvania State University’s department of film-video and media studies, was an undergraduate…
Mobile apps gaining ground on handheld clickers
When clickers made their way into higher education in the 1990s, the handheld devices were hailed by professors for their…
Increasing share of good-paying jobs go to college graduates
The college degree has solidified its role as the best ticket to the middle class. With the title “Good Jobs…
Makerspaces and Academic Incubators: Giving Innovation on Campus a Home
by Daniel Fusch, Academic Impressions Listening recently to Melissa Kaufman, executive director of The Garage at Northwestern University (which incubated 147 start-ups in…
Why is it so difficult to nurture innovation and academic entrepreneurship at a college or university?
by Melissa Morriss-Olson (Provost, Bay Path University) My keen and longstanding interest in innovation was first fueled by my doctoral…
