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Research Universities and the Future of America

By alex | Published: 7/4/2012
In case you haven’t seen this yet… This is one of those cases where fostering the elite is a good thing. Nothing wrong with funding community colleges or making tuition at four-year institutions more reasonable, but we are systematically undermining our country both economically and culturally by undercutting our large research universities. All hail the […]
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On teaching at Quinnipiac

By alex | Published: 6/7/2012
This draws the close on my second teaching appointment, having taught in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University from 2006 to 2012. I recently sat next to someone on a plane who was about to receive her Ph.D. in Communications, and she noted that it no longer seems like you take an academic job […]
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ELD12 Presentation: More on Badges

By alex | Published: 5/31/2012
I promise to stop going on and on about badges shortly. But I’m presenting tomorrow morning at the Emerging Learning Design conference. Figured I would share my slides, though I have not figured out quite how to cut five minutes from this yet. ELD12: Badge Design View another webinar from halavais Edit: Hmmm. Slideshare is […]
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Badgepost Failures

By alex | Published: 5/9/2012
I just realized I told some folks on a phone call that the recent post indicated some of my failures in using badges, but it didn’t really. I would deem it generally a very high success, and will continue to use badges in all my classes. With rare exceptions, students have been pretty enthusiastic (with […]
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