University Presidents on “Irrelevance”

This morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a survey of more than 1,000 university presidents conducted for the Chronicle by the by the Pew Research Center. What’s on university presidents’ minds? “We’re staring fundamental change in the face,” said Stephen R. Portch, a former chancellor of the University System of Georgia. “Our system is … Read more

Five Days Left to Submit for OpenEd11

Proposal submissions for OpenEd11 are due on Monday! The Call for Proposals page on the website has all the information, but here’s a recap: The Open Education 2011 conference brings together people working in this broad diversity of contexts to discuss the state of the art in Open Education and facilitate creative conversations across a … Read more

Utah “Best of State” Awards

Utah’s prestigious Best of State award winners were announced this week! Special congratulations are in order for: Open High School of Utah, which won the Education / Curriculum Development category Caleb Chapman, who won the Education / Teacher K-12 category Caleb Chapman and the Crescent Super Band, which won the Arts and Entertainment / Vocal/Instrumental … Read more