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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics

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Facebook recently conducted an experiment with approximately 700,000 users by manipulating their newsfeeds and recording the change in their emotions based on the information received. After the research was published, many people were outraged by Facebook’s failure to disclose the experiment and therefore not receiving their users’ agreement to participate. According to Vindu Goel of […]

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Everyday Devices Killed Off By Smartphones

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I read an article in The Guardian by Samuel Gibbs about devices once used regularly that were replaced by smartphones. The list is lengthy and includes: simple mobile phones, landline phones, pay phones (the kind available in public places, not “burner” phones), point and shoot cameras, the Walkman, Dictaphones, cheap laptops, portable TV’s, pocket calculators, […]

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Would Closing Business Schools Make the World a Better Place?

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Would closing business schools save the humanities? Dr. William Major thinks so. Dr. Major is a professor of English at Hillyer College at the University of Hartford. In an interesting essay published in the July 28 issue of Inside Higher Ed titled “Close Business Schools/Save the Humanities,” he suggests that closing all the business schools […]

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Tapping Innovation in Scholarship, Leadership and the Workplace

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By Thomas Rasbach, Alumnus, American Public University In late April, I was informed that American Public University (APU) planned to present me with one of its James P. Etter Awards for Creativity and Innovation during its recent 2014 Commencement. I had no idea that I was even nominated. I did not realize at the time the […]

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Bill Gates Throws Down the Gauntlet to Higher Education

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“Colleges need to hold themselves more responsible, or someone else will.” That statement came from Microsoft founder Bill Gates during his keynote address this week at the National Association of College and University Business Officers’ (NACUBO) annual meeting in Seattle earlier this week. Speaking on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he urged […]

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An Inspired Teacher Uses Entrepreneurship to Inspire Her Students

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By Dr. Suzanne Minarcine The James P. Etter Award for Innovation and Creativity came as a huge surprise to me, and I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. I knew that Dr. Jill Fuson had nominated me, but I never really thought I did anything special. Student success comes first for me, along with […]

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A Leader’s Perspective

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Dr. Wally Boston was invited by The Education Alliance, a non-profit that works to improve K-12 education in the state of West Virginia, to participate in: EDTalks: Connecting Education, Jobs and Our Future event. The EDTalks event featured three speakers: the Honorable Joe Manchin, III, United States Senator, Erin Sponaugle, 2014 West Virginia Teacher of […]

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The Rise of Virtual Leadership

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By Melissa Layne, Director of Research Methodology and Editor-in-Chief for Internet Learning Journal Are leaders born or made?  This widely debated question has been a topic of conversation for decades. I decided to ruminate upon this question after being chosen as the recipient of the Wagner Award for Distance Education Leadership, sponsored by Pearson Learning […]

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The Internet of Things

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A recent Economist blog post entitled, “Google and Android: They have a plan” compelled me to add it as a bookmark, so that at some point in the future, I can compare the status of Google’s advancement on tracking Internet-connected devices and website content, otherwise known as the Internet of Things (IOT) coined by Kevin […]

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Engaging Online Faculty & Administrators in the Assessment Process

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By Dr. Jennifer Stephens Helm, Vice President and Dean of Institutional Research and Assessment, American Public University System   Foreword by Wally Boston: The Quality Matters organization developed a very famous rubric for evaluating the quality of online courses, and online educators throughout higher education utilize this rubric. Earlier this year, the organization published, Assuring […]

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce

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