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youtube video on leadership in Academia and Industry identified by AAUW of Michigan https://youtu.be/j5JB94eiyxU

Blog post by William Bowen, March 25, 2013, on movement towards online education. He would like more hard evidence to understand impact/success among other effects, tool kits (platforms), new mind-set to attempt online to reduce costs without adversely affecting educational outcomes, what we must retain in terms of central aspects of life on campus such as "minds rubbing against minds." Excerpts: "My plea is for the adoption of a portfolio approach to curricular development that provides a calibrated mix of instructional styles." ... "Their students, along with others of their generation, will expect to use digital resources-and to be trained in their use. And as technologies grow increasingly sophisticated, and we learn more about how students learn and what pedagogical methods work best in various fields, even top-tier institutions will stand to gain from the use of such technologies to improve student learning." Really like this comment for value of MOOCs for post-college graduates: "A quibble. I am intrigued by your comment about "minds rubbing against minds." While there is undeniable worthiness of the thought inside academic communities perhaps underestimated is the lack of such friction after graduation and how MOOCs can provide opportunities outside the alma maternal environments. To take courses at the local U. costs both in inconvenience of scheduling, transportation and monetary costs equivalent to constantly having a new Hyundai. Those requirements wind up as being unreasonable. Since January I have had the great pleasure of thinking about the thoughts of Dave Ward and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and arguing about points in the forums. More recently, Michael Sandel on Justice from Boston. These opportunities are enormously better than nothing at all, clearly benefiting myself and probably also friends, colleagues and civil society. While these experiences do not provide the intensity of a post seminar argument in the Ree

Howard Rheingold et al has created this Google Doc that is updated regularly with resources that help you detect "crap" onlline info. The resources are categorized into subjects: identity; political; consumer/business; medical, images; urban legends, hoaxes and emails; journalism; collective intelligence and user-based detection; academia and education; events; miscellaneous; web sites; web pages; twitter; video

Excellent article by Jan H. Kietzmann, Kristopher Hermkens, Ian P. McCarthy, and Bruno S. Silvestre explaining social media building blocks in Business Horizons (2011) 54, 241-251. Like the honeycomb image of social media functionality in particular.

informed assessment/report by Justin Wolfers, NYTimes, on how extending parental leave policies cause unintended impacts

beautiful brief assessment of impact of losses in workplace and how they negatively affect earnings, job security, & retirement