Which I just happened to finish a few weeks ago, and loved from beginning to end. I nearly spilled my breakfast coffee this morning reading Schwartz’s article, as I assumed that I was some rare adult fan of Ernest Cline’s weird and wonderful comic dystopia, a world set mostly in a videogame. I enjoyed the […]
First interesting #NYTBR in ages…especially @JohnSchwartz on Ready Player One audiobook!
May 20, 2012 by
Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered
May 3, 2012 by
Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year are you in? I asked the young woman. If you had left college as a first-year student, would we call you a failure, or would […]
I just love being right. Early, yes, but that’s the thing about pioneering. Timing is everything. Fathom showed the way. #highered #macaulay
May 2, 2012 by
Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Partnership By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 2, 2012 (AP) Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday. Beginning this fall, a […]
Flat Stanley and me, or what I did for love of Hannah #highereducation.
April 23, 2012 by
I carried Flat Stanley around for about a month; he and I had a lot of fun touring Zabars, going to the opera, and hanging out in a meeting of the CUNY Presidents. But the best was an unexpected encounter at Oregon State University Library in Corvallis, where I was invited to tour the replica […]
I went looking for signs of positive change in higher education, and found too few. #macaulayhonors #highereducation
April 8, 2012 by
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education.
Macaulay Marauders rock! Figures that they wrote the best cheer ever, listen here: #macaulayhonors
April 8, 2012 by
Wish I’d said that: ““The biggest risk is not taking any risk…” Guess who?
October 31, 2011 by
Interesting interview with Mark Zuckerburg in TechCrunch.
I’m dreaming DPLA…but first, let’s kill all the acronyms! @dpla @macaulayhonors
October 27, 2011 by
GO DAVID FERRIERO! Quote of the day: I want every stinking piece of this collection digitized,” Mr. Ferriero said. “I want it available to the world 24 hours a day.” No mere mortal can search across the nation’s rich archival and book databases, and life’s too short […]