Three Notices: The SSP Annual Meeting, PowerPoint Karaoke, and a New SSP Profile
Three announcements from the SSP, and only 2/3 involve the Hub . . .
Digital Texts in Education — E-Readers Still Have Limitations, But the Path Forward Is Clearer
While e-readers continue to fail crucial tests for academic utility, the alternative hints at more robust devices, not a return to print.
Keynes vs. Hayek, Round 2: Top Down or Bottom Up?
This time, the winner is . . . just as ambiguous.
The P-Word: Is Matched Text the Same as Plagiarism?
A massive study of student papers by Turnitin reveals that many are copying text from Wikipedia and other user-generated sites, but it’s not clear in distinguishing text-matches from plagiarism.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Higher Education
With a bad job market for PhDs and heavy student debt, should we reexamine our expectations of higher education?
Concerns Over the Higher Education Bubble Continue to Grow and Evolve
The “education as financial bubble” meme is spreading, and new facts and comparisons are emerging.
Blackboard May be the Target of a Takeover
Blackboard is the target of speculation about a takeover, the WSJ reports. What might this mean?
Is Higher Education the Next Bubble to Burst?
With escalating costs and questions about results, higher education is attracting skepticism from an Internet mogul who knows a bubble when he sees one.
Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Squeeze That Can Revolutionize (and Save) American Education
Education reform requires educators acting as media players and change agents. Can it happen?
Paying for Impact: Does the Chinese Model Make Sense?
In many Chinese universities, authors are paid to publish. And the more prestigious the journal, the higher the reward.
Representation Without Taxation — The Politics of Greed Damage the Progress of a People
As we continue to see highly concentrated wealth, corrupt political systems, and a citizenry without civic recourse here in America, the deleterious effects on scholarship, research, and education are mounting.
Inkling: Another Digital Textbook Approacheth, But This Time, It Has Friends
A new app for textbooks on the iPad has a lot of backers, and there’s a lot at stake.
Should Universities Pay for Peer Review?
Rather than relying on journal prestige and bibliometric indicators, universities should consider paying experts to conduct institutional peer review, report recommends.
Even Crowdsourcing Can Get Too Expensive
Transcribe Bentham loses its grant after six months, and has to wind down.
King Philip's Autograph Session — A Restored Painting Provokes a Prank
A 400-year-old monarch comes out of retirement to celebrate his portrait’s restoration. And museum-goers want his autograph.