Articles Posted in the " Education " Category

  • The “Cost” of college, and why Tuition should be replaced by Sponsorship

    The “Cost” of college, and why Tuition should be replaced by Sponsorship

    Once again, Dean Dad poses an interesting question.  He asks what one year of college should cost. Asking what a year of college “should” cost is kind of a bizarre question. It should cost the accumulated costs of all the...


  • Bet You Can’t Search

    Bet You Can’t Search

    Are you surprised by how many people don’t know how to search? Apparently Google is, and they are working to help fix that with an educational program. It’s geared for educators, but that doesn’t mean every day, Real People” can...


  • When consumers don’t drive the market…

    When consumers don’t drive the market…

    Who are the consumers of textbooks? And how do you define a consumer? We had this discussion recently on the podcast Real Tech for Real People episode 97. We were discussing the increasing use of tablets, and specifically iPads, in...


  • Digital Education Resources: What price, adoption?

    Digital Education Resources:  What price, adoption?

    Access to the homework tool (included in the purchase of a NEW textbook) would cost students $10 if they chose to instead by a book used. Of course, that would only give them access to the homework assignments. There was an additional fee ($30 I believe) if they wanted to have the "PLUS" features, including the hyperlinking to the appropriate section of the text.


  • Digital teaching resources: How do we measure success?

    Digital teaching resources:  How do we measure success?

    Those that read regularly, or listen to our podcast, will know that I love technology, and that I also spend a good bit of time cogitating on how we can best use technology in higher education. As part of another...


  • Books, we got Books!

    Books, we got Books!

    OKAY… I talked about this is today’s podcast at http://Getthenext.com. I have been sitting on this for two years now, thinking it wasn’t “ready” but I wanted to get it out, so read on! ===== Books are wonderful things. Millenia...


  • Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    Are Professors “Scribes?” I think therefore I’m not…

    In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.”  She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum...


  • Presentation: Collaborative Tools for Research

    Presentation:  Collaborative Tools for Research

    On Tuesday, I gave a presentation on using collaborative tools as an integrated part of our research processes.  I recorded that presentation, and have it available here as the 22nd podcast in my series here. I broke the presentation into...


  • What is cheating?

    What is cheating?

    Ah, well, I won’t be answering that question here.  I will simply post a survey for now.  I will share my thoughts a bit later. This conversation started over at Twitter (follow me– @SCMProfessor) as an outgrowth of reading and...


  • New/Social Media in Business Education

    New/Social Media
 in Business Education

    I gave a presentation last month to the Advisory Board here on campus for our Business School.  I thought I would share the presentation and also the talk as recorded that morning. I welcome any thoughts you might have on...