2011–2015
433 posts
2015 172
December 2015
- Top movies of the year, 1965: spy versus spy edition
- Top ten movies of the year, 1975 edition
- This blog in 2015, analyzed by WordPress droids
- Trends to watch in 2016: education and technology
- Top ten movies of the year, 1985 edition
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 9, Institutional Envy
- Top ten movies of the year, 1995 edition
- Trends to watch in 2016: technologies
- Trends to watch in 2016: education contexts
- Three years without caffeine: a surprising lack of agony and terror, plus a caveat
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 8, against “Rankings”
- Discussing technology, institutional change, and the future of education
- American higher education enrollment shrinks. Again.
- What do Americans think of computing gaming and gamers? Major differences revealed in new Pew study
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 7, “Pyramids”
- Queen sacrifice in Western Illinois
- Yet another campus sacrifices the queen
- Why tv news must die; a task for educators
- Evangel University sacrifices the queen
- Sacrificing the queen at the University of Montana
- Political leaders across parties and nations now want to crack down on the internet, because terror
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 6
- Great podcasts from late 2015
November 2015
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 5
- Trends, challenges, and developments for higher education’s next 5 years
- Fewer and richer high school grads heading to college: ACE analysis
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 4
- Inequality and optimism in higher education
- Does social media control our lives? An upcoming discussion on Malta
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 3
- How public universities support athletics – and students – badly
- Queen sacrifice as bargaining strategy
- Trying a different podcatcher: Stitcher
- Die, American cable tv news, die
- Small schools losing numbers to big campuses in New Jersey
- For educators, a charge on this Veterans Day
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2
- First impressions of the New York Times VR project
- Blogging from the hospital
- Further reflections on EDUCAUSE 2015
- Queen sacrifice at Wartburg College
- EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 1
October 2015
- Robert Reich: economic inequality is starting to silence academic expression
- Americans using technology: smartphones and city kids versus old folks in the country
- Our next online book club reading: Richard DeMillo, Revolution in Higher Education
- Emerging technologies: a more detailed Gartner analysis
- What’s next in technology? Gartner looks five years ahead
- Queen sacrifice at Calvin College
- American higher education might not be broken, but seems to be sick
- The Democratic candidate debate: notes on education
- Americans look at education and are not too pleased
- How to prepare your campuses for a queen sacrifice: a handy guide from Connecticut
- _Will College Pay Off?_, a review
- First thoughts on watching _The Martian_
- Starting a month of malevolent frights
September 2015
- The problem with the problem with students today
- Great wealth: the privilege academia really doesn’t want to discuss
- More humanities seminars online, and they’re not MOOCs
- Talking about the future of education and technology on Milwaukee public radio
- Grad school is changing by race, nationality, gender, and discipline
- The adjunct crisis: a good update, a scary visualization, and a classic error
- Considering some black swans, an online discussion
- The entire Japanese public university system attempts a massive queen sacrifice
- Cutting higher education enrollment and taking it seriously
- Discussing the future of education, and being off the grid
- What has happened in digital storytelling since 2011? A selfish query
- Most campuses still refuse to recognize faculty using technology
- One classroom for one kind of future
August 2015
- The emerging three-cornered K-12 computing ecosystem
- Another queen sacrifice in Ohio
- The future of everything for higher education: an upcoming NERCOMP event
- A community college sacrifices many full-time lecturers
- Valdosta State conducts a queen sacrifice
- The queen sacrifice in education fiction
- Giving a great presentation: starting from scratch
- Giving a great presentation: the gift of your voice
July 2015
- Cutting staff but not faculty: University of Akron hacks around a queen sacrifice
- American higher education politics just changed, maybe
- Presenting and participating in the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference
- Giving a great presentation: notes on using PowerPoint
- A tale of two academias: campus chief financial officers peer into the future
- How students choose majors during recessions
- The campus merger option rises
- How not to write about college students: a lesson from Slate
- Some thoughts on the future of museums
June 2015
- Why aren’t students rising up? Why would they?
- Giving a great presentation: your body
- Six trajectories for education and technology
- Reading in 2015, a personal reflection with bonus Lovecraft anecdote
- Sweet Briar to have another academic year; what does it mean?
- Down with Twitter’s Project Lightning
- Another college to close: intimations of mortality in higher education
- Colleges team up to protect themselves
- Giving a great presentation: what to do afterwards
- One future for research libraries
- Sacrificing the queen at Kentucky State University
- 3d printing and education: a workshop report
- My business after two years
- Wisconsin shifts, expands attack on public higher education
May 2015
- A giant basket of internet trends from Mary Meeker: what educators should know
- Mapping higher education cuts and tuition increases
- AltSchool: bespoke education innovation just for the 1%?
- Queen sacrifices announced across fourteen North Carolina campuses
- Here’s an idea: let’s tax Wall Street to make college tuition free
- American higher education enrollment declines again
- A powerful donor versus academic freedom
- Giving a great presentation: some tips and advice
- One classic open education source to stop
- More for-profit colleges to resign the game
- Concluding Robert Putnam’s _Our Kids_, asking “What is To Be Done?”
- Teaching the Future
- The age of disintegrated computing and thoughts on education
April 2015
- Reading Robert Putnam’s _Our Kids, chapter 5, “Community”
- The end of Corinthian Colleges, or resigning the game utterly
- Is Louisiana State University preparing for “academic bankruptcy”?
- Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, chapter 4, “Schooling”
- What Americans think about college, according to Gallup: love, concern, and racial difference
- Higher education becomes even more unequal, and a major proposal
- University of Wisconsin-Madison prepares a queen sacrifice
- University of Alaska sacrifices the queen
- Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, chapter 3: “Parenting”
- Cutting funds to public higher education: now in New Hampshire
- Teens using tech: the latest from Pew Research
- I will lead a future of education and technology seminar in June
- More interest in connecting seniors to higher education
- Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, chapter 2: “Families”
- Flickr Creative Commons site bug fixed
- What happened to millions of Creative Commons-licensed photos in Flickr?
- On Paul Campos and filthy public education lucre
- What we talk about when we speak of administration
- Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, chapter 1
March 2015
- How are schools competing with other modes of learning?
- Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, together online
- Piketty on student debt
- Did we just enter the age of extractive democracy?
- What American educational oligarchy looks like in 2015
- One law school faces a stark future
- Vermont college cuts staff, adjuncts, classes
- Getting better news: my daily routine
- Privatizing community college in Arizona
- Three years of writing about education’s future
- When the queen sacrifice isn’t enough, a campus resigns
- We can’t graduate enough nurses
- Elmhurst College makes a queen sacrifice
February 2015
- Picking on great education and technology myths
- Today is National Adjunct Walkout Day
- Thoughts on Kevin Carey’s University of Everywhere
- A Democratic party opportunity on higher education
- I brood about the future of learning for Inside Higher Ed
- What to do with a good old wiki resource?
- The governor of Illinois picks up the ax
- Scientists and social media: an important new study
- A wave of state-mandated queen sacrifices for American public universities
- The current state of online learning: the Babson report
- George Howard Brett II, 1948 – 2015
- Wisconsin considers a massive queen sacrifice
- American higher education: ever more unequal
- One university adds a class of senior citizens
January 2015
- Another graduate field might be running into trouble
- Higher education, the 1%’s dependent
- America’s shrinking middle class: questions for educators
- Two challenges for Ken Robinson
- Notes from BETT 2015
- Mercyhurst considers a queen sacrifice
- When states cut public education funding: the problems with _Unmaking Education_
- President Obama’s plan for free community college tuition: first thoughts
- Digital storytelling: practice and place
- Future Trends, filthy lucre, and a sustainability experiment
- A class of seniors: a new opportunity for higher education
- Notes on Ivory Tower
- Some university presidents on the future of education
2014 114
December 2014
- Considering a year of bloggery
- Two years without caffeine
- Darker, unequal, more controlled, yet hopeful: looking ahead to the Web of 2015
- Sacrificing the queen or the whole campus? The case of UNO
- Notes on Paying for the Party
- Snowed on, locked down, raiding electrons and getting zotted: a week of storms
- Most Americans pretty happy with the internet, says Pew
- A university sacrifices its football team
- A Vermont college announces a queen sacrifice
November 2014
- William Gibson, The Peripheral
- Net neutrality versus social justice: the case for zero rating
- More international students on American campuses
- Peering ahead to 2064
- A snapshot of faculty teaching in 2014
- Thoughts on Interstellar
- Conversing with COIL
- Two Pennsylvania campuses sacrifice the queen
- When a liberal arts college starts teaching online
- American social media, mobile device use in elections rising: Pew study
October 2014
- Academia tries out open in response to Ebola (UPDATED)
- One traditional undergraduate university to close
- How to adjunctivize your university
- After such broadband, what applications?
- Another digital story
- University of Southern Maine declares a serious queen sacrifice
- Higher education enrollment declined again: US Census
- Education dystopia #4: the bubble bursts
- Education dystopia #3: the new gilded age
- Education dystopia #2: cyberpunk world
September 2014
- Education dystopia #1: triumph of the silos
- A week of educational dystopias
- Are campus mergers rising?
- What does the internet of things mean for education?
- Three higher education futures
- What podcatcher should I use?
- On CNBC today: a quick discussion about the future of tech and education
- Technology, education, and me
- Coming up: business to expand its role in education
- Ten personal books: a bibliophilic glance
- The shock of the old: the triumph of tv ads
- What “I want to have a conversation” really means
August 2014
- A fine hoax of attitudes towards adjuncts in the Chronicle
- Returning to optimism
- Closing a college
- On education racing the machines
- Technology from disruptive to darling
- One future of education: Health Care Nation
- Queen sacrifice in New Hampshire
July 2014
- On keynoting: how I create my talks
- Joining the New Media Consortium
- Higher ed could survive, just like the big banks did
- Making MOOCs work on campus
- On the hope and hype of MOOCs
- How can we reform the adjunct system?
- A law school sacrifices the queen
- One scenario for scholarly research
- Hotel internet connectivity: how bad is it?
June 2014
- Starting a business: one year of success
- Quinnipiac pares back, otherwise maintains queen sacrifice
- The power of convenience
- My monthly report: triumphs and questions
- Adventures of The Exploded Twitter book club
May 2014
- Reshaping the University: trends report
- A Hawaii university sacrifices the queen
- A western college sacrifices the queen
- Left and right agree on critiquing higher education
- Quinnipiac sacrifices the queen, apparently
- Piketty on higher education
- A conversation about the present and future at CNI
- Towards peak scholarship
April 2014
- Queen sacrifice in Kentucky
- Fewer high school grads going on to college
- A digital story about the holiday spirit and avoiding cannibalism
- Thoughts on the first half of Piketty’s Capital
- Public universities confront changes
- Americans on the future of science and technology: meh
- “Let the death spiral whirl”: Slate celebrates the destruction of small colleges
- Concluding the Second Machine Age
- Peak higher education hits Bloomberg
- Backing away from one queen sacrifice
- Signs of peak higher education: the return of vo tech
- How to survive our robot overlords
- Have we reached peak higher education?
March 2014
- Technology versus workers, or technology for workers?
- Academia between two storms: talking NERCOMP into the future
- Yale’s former president to Coursera
- How technology remixes socioeconomics: deeper into The Second Machine Age
- How we play today
- Making a queen sacrifice in Maine
- Doppelbotting Snowden
- Living the digital life in 2025
- Can technology save money in K-12 schools?
- The Web’s founder calls for action, so where is education?
- Technological bounty and mismeasurement
- Today’s academic libraries: a sharp new survey
- Innovation, machines, and you
- Long Island campuses eyeing the queen sacrifice
- Looking through STEAM
- The Second Machine Age, week two
February 2014
- Another university sacrifices the queen, plus some other pieces
- Starting a reading of The Second Machine Age
- Seven years, 20,000 tweets, and counting
- University of Akron goes for the queen sacrifice
- Doppelbotting in the Chronicle
- On a second doppelbot experience
- Invading a conference in a robotic doppelganger
- Another university makes the queen sacrifice
January 2014
2013 97
December 2013
- Trends from 2013: the higher education bubble
- Trends from 2013: education and technology
- Trends from 2013: technology
- Trends from 2013: education
- My daily info-wrangling routine
- Happy holiday wishes
- Mobile and game-based storytelling
- More colleges choosing the queen sacrifice gambit
- A moment in the Web, and its question
- An example of the queen sacrifice
- Colleges prepare to sacrifice the queen
November 2013
- What happened to podcasting, and what didn’t happen
- Higher education finances still in crunch mode
- Thinking about wearable technology and education
- Your chat bot, yourself
- Inbox zero and one fatal flaw
- Mobile learning in 2013
- Thoughts on the future of MOOCs
- In Times Higher Education, on MOOCs
October 2013
- More digital storytelling via Cowbird
- A multimedia story about Russian life
- Who flips?
- Reading In The Plex
- Trendlines towards the end of 2013
- Unusual approaches to the future of education
September 2013
- The Unwinding
- Podcasts I’m listening to
- Interviewed by Digital Scholar
- The peak education conversation
- Peak education 2013
August 2013
- Open access is on the way
- December webinar
- AAUP versus Obama
- American broadband continues to grow, but unevenly
- Obama’s higher ed plan, first thoughts
- The world’s greatest cloud computing service
- Looking at Future Trends
- Have ebooks plateaued?
- One group looks at the future of higher education
- Lev Gonick’s tech and education trends
July 2013
- Late night thoughts on higher education finance
- Dark discussions with educators
- Surprised by a bear
- Unremarkable observations about being offline
- Who are the best-paid public employees in America?
- Digging against Google before midnight
June 2013
- Digital natives and libraries: new Pew research
- Games and education: you’re invited to a review
- Towards next generation libraries
- Life after Google Reader
- Launching a new project: Future Trends in Technology and Education
- Technology remixing higher education, one conversation
- With the social networks
- Starting a new venture: Bryan Alexander Consulting
- How not to write against MOOCs and education reform
- Talking with Howard Rheingold
- A new Mary Meeker glimpse of the future
May 2013
- College degree: a good idea or not?
- Connecting with phone phreaks
- Keynoting the future at SUNY
- Higher education reaches an inflection point, continued
- Professional development on MOOCs with Bryan
- Following up on future jobs
- Georgia Tech MOOC program: first thoughts
- Jobs of the future aren’t what you think
- Did private higher education just reach an inflection point?
- Reviewing _College_
- Storytelling by Twitter: Soderbergh
- Up in the edublogosphere
- Services available
April 2013
- Futuring media, one solid project
- Americans doing more politics through social media
- When 2013 feels like the future
- Anticipating the future through vocabulary
March 2013
- The future of technology brought to you by the letter “S”
- Reversing the future
- Mobile, MOOCs, and more thoughts on the future of education
- Going beyond Google Reader, RIP
- On Cypherpunks
- Looking into the rest of the 21st century with Shell scenarios
- How some middle/high school teachers use technology
February 2013
- On games for learning
- Storytelling by Twitter: one last tweet
- Late night with Cowbird
- Talking about the future of education
- American social media users, the latest Pew info
- MOOCs instead of open education
- Storytelling with Cowbird
- Storytelling by Twitter
- A playful model of a decade
January 2013
2012 32
December 2012
- Emerging technologies for education: the 2013 Horizon Report
- Back in the bloghouse basement
- The stories of an avalanche
- First thoughts on The Hobbit
October 2012
September 2012
- On to Arkansas!
- Announcing the NITLE Future of Higher Education Leadership Program
- Launching Future Trends report
- Back to Digital Campus
- Discussion the future of education
August 2012
July 2012
June 2012
- Today on Twitter, the future of education
- I visit the Magic Macguffin camp
- Interviewed on the Future of Education
May 2012
April 2012
- Digital storytelling at Case Western
- Upcoming talk in Ohio
- On the future of higher education, a NITLE video discussion
March 2012
- Thinking about public access tv
- Web vs apps for the future
- Reactions to my UMW talk
- Digital storytelling and the future of higher education
- The future of education: an upcoming video presentation
- One of my talks, visualized
January 2012
2011 18
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
- New Digital Storytelling: world conquest, phase 1
- One school district and tech
- Collaboration futures: a new column
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
- The New Digital Storytelling, reviewed
- I take on scholarly communication and the future
- The New Digital Storytelling hits the shelves and Web