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We don’t own the guns: the guns own us.

From the Denver Post yesterday morning: LONGMONT — Police are looking for a .380 semiautomatic pistol that a resident reported he lost while riding a motorized scooter through a north Longmont...

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DVR alert: Historiann in re-runs this weekend on C-SPAN 3.

I’ve been informed that my lecture on stays, material culture, and early American women’s history will air again this weekend on C-SPAN 3:  Saturday at 11:20 a.m., Sunday at 6:20 a.m. (for the...

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Life, death, and early America

Richard III’s skeleton, showing a massive skull fracture and evidence of corpse desecration. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find the story about the discovery and identification of Richard...

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The College Scorecard: how does your institution rate?

Most of you probably heard about the new College Scorecard that the White House has assembled so that students can compare raw data across the board when deciding where to go to school.  Baa Ram U....

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On the value of majoring in business, from Professors Truth and Biafra

Take it from Shmuel Ellis—a business professor and administrator at Tel Aviv University (via Gawker): Ellis said in his email that the business school recommends undecided undergraduate students choose...

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Confirmation of the bloody obvious

From the “No $hit, Fred,” files: Some Groups May Not Benefit From Online Education, via Inside Higher Ed: Some of the students most often targeted in the push to use online learning to increase college...

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Suck on this!

What I learned from Thomas Friedman this morning in the New York Times: No one cares what you learn in college, because Google! College professors have no certification that we can teach, and all we do...

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Is the ‘stache back?

Mustaches:  they’ve been on my mind lately because of all of the interest in Thomas Friedmans’ “The Mustache of Understanding” mooky MOOC-fest earlier this week.  But I’ve also been seeing them riding...

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CPP = William Howard Taft?

Comrade PhysioProffe‘s post last week on Thomas Friedman’s puffery of MOOCs calls out MOOCs as a “class warfare scam,” and makes an interesting comparison of mass-produced MOOC education to...

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Best. Response. Ever.

Donna Brazile to marriage concern trolls: Perhaps, if I’d had Ms. Patton’s wisdom and foresight about what really matters in college, I wouldn’t have taken so many pesky classes, and instead...

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Amherst faculty tells edX: drop dead.

I love the Amherst faculty’s commitment to educational rather than “edupreneurial” (or edupredatory) values.  To be sure, there was the huge issue of institutional mission versus the mission–so far as...

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Just another occasion to feel entirely alienated from American culture and...

Baa Ram U. announced that tuition next year will increase by 9%, making the cost of one year at my university for Colorado residents the princely sum of $7,494.  Unfortunately, the Denver Post buried...

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Worst teachers ever.

Trying to avoid grading final exams? Slate offers a diversion with a feature called “What’s the worst thing a teacher ever said to you?” The Slate writers had some pretty funny stories, usually...

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Watch This Space

I’ve got a dynamite guest post from two scholars who were at the recent American Council of Learned Societies conference last weekend in Baltimore that I hope to publish later today.  They attended the...

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Guest post on the Lords of MOOC Creation: who’s really for change, and who in...

Howdy, friends–Historiann here.  I’m knee deep in research papers and final exams and have no time for posting, so thank goodness someone out there is writing for the non-peer reviewed world wide...

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When you see Count MOOCbot, scream and run away!

Daniel Luzer on Jeffrey J. Selingo’s College (Un)bound:  The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students, in a review entitled “Revolution for Thee, Not Me:” [I]f we’re expanding access...

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Bleg: Introduction to Historical Practice

Help me! Howdy, friends:  today’s post is a transparent cry for help!  I’m teaching historiography again to our incoming graduate students.  (“Historiography” is the obscurantist term we use for a...

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And speaking of poor judgment on the world wide non peer-reviewed internets. . .

Do you feel pretty? Well, do ya, punk? Via Echidne originally, I give you Geoffrey Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico, who tweeted before thinking twice, or even...

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Hard Times, indeed.

“Clearly you need to restrict the dimensions to things that more or less have a right answer or several right answers.” So says Daphne Koller on the challenges of adapting MOOC technology to teach...

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I got your bull$hit–now if you please, some help with the mucking.

I just got back from my trip to find this job announcement in my university email: The Assistant to the Associate Provost for Educational Attainment is a high-level, limited-term administrative...

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