Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesNYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? « Computing Education Blog. I agree with the concerns raised by Mark here. I would add a few additional concerns to this as well. See, I’m not as thrilled by the … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Academic Ghostwriter Comes Clean – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Emphasis on grades and competition always increase the pressure on students to “win the prize” rather than learn. When most of the rest of the world rewards … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ 03 Aug 12 Ian Bogost – Academia Still Isn’t So Bad Despite it all, working in academia (on the tenure track anyway) is still a positive lifestyle … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ FREE TrueType Fonts To Download – More than 50000 fonts to download free for windows and mac source of fonts more from fontzone.net Tags: fonts FREE How … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutes~ A record of places on the web I want to remember ~ 25 Jun 12 Technology – Bill Davidow – What Happened to Silicon Values? – The Atlantic Apple controls our virtual landscape, bounded by iTunes to the north, … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat Professors Make – Labor & Work-Life Issues – The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012 Faculty Salary Survey tags: data salaries academia Gamasutra – Features – Gamification: Framing The Discussion [As a prelude to a full-on examination of gamification, Badgeville’s … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI got ANOTHER invitation to publish an article the other day – this time it was a call for book chapters. I get quite a few of these, as I’m sure others do too. Personalized invitations are always flattering, but … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists Fault Universities as Favoring Research Over Teaching – Research – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yup. Heard it before. The entire time I was at the University of Calgary I kept hearing about how important research was and based … Continue reading