My latest in Forbes: will #Covid and #Zoom, Coursera, Southern New Hampshire University,and @Google Career Certificates prove to be a passing tremor across the landscape of #highereducation — or do they signal The Big One? If your crystal ball […]
Affiliations and personal history
October 11, 2021 by
Since I write about education, technology, and media, I thought perhaps an extra disclosure of my affiliations, past and present, would be useful. I am a graduate of New York […]
The future of higher education is…omnichannel.
September 3, 2021 by
My recent article in Forbes took me back to a day when Barnes and Noble was the ubiquitous bookseller on Main Street USA and Amazon was a blip on the […]
Cassandra or A Broken Clock?
May 14, 2020 by
I have been a university administrator, consultant, board director, and faculty member and have worked in public, private, nonprofit, and forprofit educational institutions. Now that CoVid has pushed colleges and […]
The Day I Got Hooded (40 Years Late!)
June 13, 2019 by
Maybe someday I’ll write the full story of why I didn’t attend my first Princeton graduation, but for now, I am grateful that I got a second chance. And what […]
Social media killed my blog
July 11, 2017 by
As in, I don’t post much here anymore. My observations on the general state of the world have devolved into quick hits on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. I don’t have […]
Big news! Wikipedia matters in higher ed!
June 21, 2016 by
In case you need a reminder about the glacial pace of innovation in #highered, here’s a news story that some professors are learning to use Wikipedia. Wait, what? This article […]
Early days of nfl.com and how I made my first touchdown
December 18, 2015 by
OK, so it’s not all about NFL….but I found this today, while looking for something else, and it is a mostly accurate and fun account of how WE BUILT THE […]
Stephen King, do a Taylor Swift on Apple books!
July 1, 2015 by
Last week, Taylor Swift stared down Apple and stood up for the artists. Didn’t take long, Apple backed down. Rather cheerfully, I thought. So big win for Taylor Swift and […]
Nah, i’m not going to return the Apple watch. Here’s why.
June 28, 2015 by
I bought it with the dream of walking on the beach and listening to audiobooks. Well, it can’t do that. So I really thought about returning my now two-week-old Apple […]