Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are garnering lots of attention these days. Some see large-scale, web-based classes as the new frontier for colleges and…

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TV, The Internet, & Education

Source: Business.financialpost.com

By: Armina Ligaya

Date: 5/15/13

Netflix CEO: ‘TV in the future will be like a giant iPad’

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Added by Daniel Christian on May 17, 2013 at 9:53am — No Comments

Creighton Professor & Wife killed in Nebraska

Source: www.cnn.com

Date: 5/17/13

By: Jennifer Feldman

University professor, wife killed in Nebraska

Roger Brumback and his wife, Mary Brumback of Omaha were found dead in their Omaha, Nebraska,…

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Yale Professor Weighs in On Shootings

Source: www.mercurynews.com

By: David Boitano

Date: 5/16/13

Professor says fatal shootings not random, linked to violent social networks…

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The Life of an Online Professor

Source: www.marketplace.org

Date: 5/16/13

By: Aarti Shahani

The life of an online professor…

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Professor Develops Vaccine For Bird Flu

Source: www.purdueexponent.org

Date: 5/15/13

By: HALEY CHECKLEY

Professor develops vaccine for strain of bird flu

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The Walmart of Education

Source: Learning Ecosystems -- with links out to articles at the WSJ and InsideHigherEd.com

By: Daniel Christian

Date: May 15, 2015

The…

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Added by Daniel Christian on May 15, 2013 at 8:00am — No Comments

20 forecasts for 2013-2025

Source: The World Future Society and The Futurist

By: The World Future Society and The Futurist Magazine

Date: May 14, 2013

NOTE: I don't work for the WFS or for The Futurist Magazine. However, I do think we need to be constantly pulse-checking our environments/landscapes. They do a good job of this, as you can tell by skimming the linked resource…

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University Presidents Are Prospering

Source: www.nytimes.com

By: Tamar Lewin

Date: 5/13/13

Public University Presidents Are Prospering, Annual Compensation Study Finds

In the 2011-12 fiscal year, the nation’s highest paid public university president was Graham B. Spanier, the president of Pennsylvania State University, who was forced out in November 2011 over his…

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Stanford Professor on Gun Ownership

Source: Daily Democrat

Date: 5/13/13

By David Boitano

Stanford professor: Widespread gun ownership doesn't lower crime rate

OAKLAND -- Widespread gun ownership in the United States does not lower the level of crime, a Stanford University law professor insisted.

John J. Donohue, a gun control advocate and opponent of the death penalty,…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on May 13, 2013 at 10:35pm — No Comments

Closing California's Education Gaep

Source: www.latimes.com

By: Michael Siqueiros

Date: 5/13/13

Closing California's education gap

As the overall education level declines, the state faces not only social ills but also major economic problems.…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on May 12, 2013 at 10:20pm — No Comments

TESTIMONIAL: "FacultyRow Has Amazing Potential"

I am an assistant professor and hope to be promoted. One of the criteria for promotion is national and even international recognition. With a networking website like this, we can reach out to colleagues in our field who are in the same position. Just imagine: we get a friend invited here and that friend gets us invited there and voila', two doctors now have national recognition!

Perhaps more importantly, this website fills an important niche. LinkedIN is huge for business, Doximity is…

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Professor's Tweet Affected National Security?

Source: www.mashable.com

Date: 5/12/13

By: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Did a Professor's Tweet Reveal the Identity of CIA's New Chief Spy?

Cia

On Tuesday, the CIA announced the new head of its National Clandestine Service, one of the agency's most important branches, responsible for sending spies abroad and managing its drone program. And in classic…

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Does Hybrid/ Blended Learning Work?

Source: www.tonybates.ca

By: Tony Bates

Date: 5/11/13

Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus

A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid…

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Added by FacultyRow Director on May 11, 2013 at 7:24pm — 1 Comment

Online Education (INFOGRAPHIC)

Source: www.business2community.com

Date: 5/10/13

By: Miles Young

Online Education Unseats…

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Columbia University's Secret Professor

Source: www.nation.foxnews.com

Date: 5/11/13

Jesse Watters Confronts Cop-Killing Columbia Professor

Fox's Jesse Watters headed to Columbia University to get the community's reaction to the decision to hire Kathy Boudin, a convicted cop killer, and confronts the controversial professor about her actions.

Former Weather Underground…

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