Another review of DIY U

Norris, D. (2010) Book review: DIY U Planning for Higher Education Planning for Higher Education, Vol. 38, No. 4

This is a comprehensive review of Anya Kamenetz’s book: DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education.

Note: the journal ‘Planning for Higher Education’ comes out first in printed format for SCUP [...]

Innovate or die: a message for higher education institutions

It’s funny how reports on the same issue arrive from completely different directions. These four all deal with the issue of innovation and higher education.

Baker, S. (2010) Hefce gives out extra places and takes back £20m from teaching funds Times Higher Education, June 25

Calhoun, T. (2010) Re-imagining Higher Education, Post-Recession SCUP Links [...]

An essay on the impact of the digital age on scholarship and institutions

Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56

It is always interesting to peek over the fence to see what the neighbours are up to. I’m sitting here in Canada just across the border, watching the good citizens of the United [...]

A marketer's view of higher education in the USA

For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin’s excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog:

The coming melt-down in higher education, as seen by a marketer

Now I thought this was going to be the usual ‘Let’s hammer the universities’ diatribe that we saw from Tapscott and Williams in [...]

Is this the way to change higher education?

Kamenetz, A. (200) Adapt or decline Inside Higher Education, March 26

This is another breathless romp through the reasons why higher education must change, and how it will change, similar in tone and substance to the Tapscott and William‘s article. Similarly, this article is a mile wide and an inch deep, as one of [...]