"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

Prompted by the Wisconsin Lutheran story, PTJ at The Duck of Minerva objects to the current state of scholarship in political science: Once people are hired, they also have to figure out what to assign to their students; for that purpose, they need books and articles. Naturally, people want to assig...

We're introducing Second Life to L1 journalism students next week. I normally attempt to cultivate a cool, 'technological determinist' image. But in this case, I have had to work extra hard to explain the relevance of SL to our students. The buzz surrounding SL was pretty high back in May 2008 when ...

I got a lot of positive feedback on my “Advice for Small Schools on the LMS Selection Process” post, so I’m going to continue the occasional series. You can find all the posts in the series at any time by going to the “small school LMS selection” tag on my site. To reca...

Die-hard Gators wanting to rest in peace on campus -- if not the 50-yard line at The Swamp -- are the inspiration for a proposed law that would allow Florida's public universities to build a columbarium on campus.A columbarium is......

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The Cardinal Newman Society reports: Half of the 26 Catholic activists, scholars and theologians who signed a statement publicly supporting President Barack Obama’s selection of pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services are professors employed by Cath...

Earlier this week, we gave you the first part of a conversation between Jim Groom and Gardner Campbell on edupunk. Here’s part 2 in which Jim and Gardner get a bit more animated and debate further the the appropriateness of the punk metaphor, address questions of leadership and the politicizat...

One very interesting portion of Obama’s speech last night was when he took note of how the United States has started to fall behind other countries in terms of college graduation rates. He vowed to turn this around: “By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college...

You might recall some discussion here of “edupunk,” a term coined by our old friend Jim Groom to describe approaches to teaching and learning that eschew mainstream, proprietary teaching tools in favor of open source technologies and do-it-yourself approaches. The term was, as some of yo...