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I picked up this item not so much for the trends (which are just last year's trends, continued: active learning, competency, etc) as for the diagram, which I liked. But 'OST' isn't defined anywhere in the article, so I followed the reference to an article in...

I found this post interesting because it underscores the idea that open access is not an end in itself, but rather, it is a means to an end. But to what end? As the...

This is the penultimate version of the FAIRsFAIR handbook I an numerous other people worked on last summer and fall. "It aims to support higher education institutions with the practical...

I believe I am an effective public scholar, though I can't imagine I'm on Frederick Hess's list of those "who had the biggest influence on the nation’s education discourse last year," mostly because I don't really think that's the mark of being an effective public scholar....

I hadn't really thought of it this way (because I don't care) but on reflection it turns out that the vast bulk of my contribution to the world does not contribute one iota to the GDP (except perhaps through some very indirect measures). So much the worse, I say, for the GDP as a measurement tool. There are two problems with GDP. First, it does not measure the...