- The Washington Monthly: The Siege of Academe Seeing the rise of Massive Open Online Courses as an attack on the HE system as we know it.
- Which leads on to an invitation to sample a MOOC for free: A History of the World since 1300 | Coursera
- Tips for Overcoming Online Discussion Board Challenges (Faculty Focus) More online stuff--basic but sensible.
- APA Style Blog: Best of the APA Style Blog: Fall 2012 Edition I bet you are so excited!
- Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS): The Chronicle of Higher Education On teaching writing/composition. It's an American tradition, interesting to evaluate.
- What Makes a Good Teacher? - NYTimes.com Task or student focus? To put it crudely.
- A Don's Life: What purpose are exams supposed to be fit for, Mr Gove? from Mary Beard in TLS
Other Business
- On Reading and Books Schopenauer's take
- Transcript: Michelle Obama's Convention Speech : NPR As the Browser says, one of the great Convention speeches and perhaps one of the great political speeches of modern times. (If a bit cheesy for UK tastes!)
- Ballston bluffs & Pamet headwaters.jpg - Steven Pinker's Photographs Steven Pinker's hobby--photographing Cape Cod
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