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  • [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

    This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine:   …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4   Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

  • Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News This is the time of year many high school seniors are getting their long-awaited, highly anticipated college acceptance letters. See on inplainsight.nbcnews.com Related articles Organizing Adjunct Faculty… Continue reading

    Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

  • What is Interdisciplinary Communication?

    How can we make sense of different perspectives on the same subject? How does what I learn about, say, environmental problems in my science class relate to what I learn about them in my philosophy class? Can professors from different… Continue reading

  • MOOCs as capital-biased technological change

    Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that… Continue reading