by andflywrite | Sep 29, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Story from Fast Company about using various means to learn how to be a “Social Innovator”. Note links at bottom of story to other “alternate” $10K degrees: “Fast Company’s Guide To The Gen Flux College Degree”...
by gary575 | Sep 26, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here via WaP’s Wonkblog is one person’s comprehensive revision of US Higher Ed – I am sure NMSU administrators will be at the forefront of the advocates. (admin: here’s the pdf of that article. Note also the Fast Co subsequent posting on $10k...
by andflywrite | Sep 24, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
In 1969, Playboy Magazine interviewed Marshall McLuhan in an extensive and far reaching exploration of his ideas at that time. As many have noted, from the perspective of circa 45 years later, or maybe 50 years if one considers that “Understanding Media: The...
by andflywrite | Sep 23, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
PDF with graphics “Embracing Open Data as a Startup” by Lisa Abeyta from NMTech list, supplied by Gary, touching on one of the potential features of municipal owned broadband infrastructure. “Open Data”. I found it an interesting approach to...
by andflywrite | Sep 14, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
San Antonio opening a library with all eBooks… and/or all cloud sourced reading materials. Described in this article from Time as a “Bookless Library”….kind of the way automobiles were originally called “horseless carriages”....
by gary575 | Sep 14, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This Business Week article has no depth, but makes several important points: 1) MOOCs (and on-line education in general) are apt to create a “star class” as in other businesses which will have profound effects on the profession and the universities (think...
