Yesterday I began a new blog site called Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective. This site is the online research and writing space I’m going to use for my next book project — a project still in its early days mode. For a long time now I’ve been thinking about what happens when the entire scholarly…
Tag: open access
Hacking the Academy — the Book
I’m pleased to announce that Hacking the Academy is now available in its online edition from the University of Michigan’s Digital Culture series. As my colleague Dan Cohen explains in his post on how the book came about, one should be careful about what one wishes for when it comes to a “hack” of a…
E-Text Job
In the most recent installment of Digital Campus we discussed the rise of the e-textbook on college campuses and wondered how much longer it would take before e-texts replaced paper and glue texts as the primary vehicle for the delivery of information to students. The very next day my friend Sherry Linkon, co-director of Youngstown…
Will the Center Hold?
I took part in a very interesting meeting here at Mason the other day. After many years of a pretty hands-off approach to distance or at least distributed education, it seems we have decided to move into this market in a more coordinated way. By “more coordinated” I mean that rather than reactively supporting to…