The second speaker at the conference (#masonfuture) was Jeff Selingo from the Chronicle of Higher Education. His remarks began with a focus on how higher education is deeply skeptical of change and unwilling to hear opposing viewpoints. Then he moved to a discussion of how technology is transforming the relationship between the producer and the…
Future of Higher Education Conference
Today and tomorrow I’ll be live blogging Mason’s “Future of Higher Education” conference (hashtag #masonfuture in case you’ve heard of that thing called Twitter. Because this conference is both about higher education in general and about Mason specifically, I’ll be very interested to listen between the lines for clues as to where the new leadership…
Apocalypse Soon?
Off and on over the last four years I’ve been speculating in this space about the future of the educational enterprise at colleges and universities like George Mason where I work. Mason is a so-called “mass market university” that has a large enrollment (over 30,000), an amazingly diverse student body, and offers most academic programs…
Reddit, Hoaxes, and Wikipedia
One of the students in my course “Lying About the Past” emailed me today to let me know that someone has created a Wikipedia entry about the class hoax that was debunked by reddit users on the serial killer sub-reddit. A Wikipedian with the username “lamnurki” created the entry on June 22, 2012 and it…