Ep 13: Fernando Casafranca and Latin America
With so much focus on the Middle East in the media today, it’s easy to minimize the political, geographical, social, and economic turmoil that’s happening right across our boarder to the south. How do we step up as good neighbors in the politically charged, economically driven hornet’s nest in Central and South America? Ep 13: [...]
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Arizona Cardinals name new stadium: University of Phoenix Stadium
The first public article went live at midnight here: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0926biz-namingrights0926.html It’s way too late for me to write too much that’s articulate, but I’ve been told that there’s a press conference at 10:00 AM PST to announce details and that we’d all know more then. I’ve got a chat scheduled with the folks who put the deal together tomorrow (today!) afternoon and will hopefully post more about how this came about then.
New Study from Capella Supports Support for Non-Traditional Students
Capella University commissioned a study recently on the value of returning to school. The results lend support for just about everything we’re doing in the industry to figure out the rapidly evolving learning models. You can find the results site at http://www.degreesofopportunity.org. There’s also an interview with the head researcher on the page, Dr. Lyungai [...]
Feeling Old? Go back to school!
On the heels of my last post, Joe Cockrell sends me this article from the AOL Research & Learn site. It mentions one of our students, but the sentiment is broader…. baby boomers are hitting 60 at a rate of one ever 7 seconds? I guess the more important question is for how long?
Second Life: Second Campus
We have a development group under the Apollo Group umbrella called Apollo Publishing. The team there has transmutated over the years a number of times from publishing house to licensing house to dev center. Today, it serves pieces of all of those, and more.
Ep 12: Mark Alexander on Teaching Gen Y
What is it about the “Echo Boomers” that we don’t understand? How do demands on time, work, education, and technology define this generation, and what are we doing to help? This week, Mark Alexander of University of Phoenix joins us to take on the next generation and the fantastic challenge this poses on institutions to [...]
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Audio/Video in Education Content
Robert Scoble has been talking about video blogging, and it’s got me thinking.
Evening at McCarran Airport
There’s a moving sidewalk that leads right into a funnel of double doors off of the A gates — the passage narrows considerably, which shouldn’t be a problem with normal traffic flow…. The doors shut automatically and this stream of people from the moving sidewalk just sort of…… They didn’t adjust like fluid and move around the moving sidewalk to the sides, back up the hallway…. For five minutes this has been happening and it’s not stopping…___OK, so it’s stopped, the doors are open and no one knows what it was, just that it has to do with a security breach at the Burger King.Say it again.
Ep 11: Charlita Shelton and Race and Diversity in America
Threats of terror and cultural bifurcation in our country call to question just how diverse a nation we really are. Are We The People really able to understand one another for our differences and move forward together, or are we embroiled in a demographic quagmire at home, work, and in the media? Ep 11: Charlita [...]
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Apple iTunes FINALLY allows you to create a new Library!
At long last, the release of iTunes 7.0 allows Mac users to create a new iTunes library at launch a la iPhoto. Just option-click the iTunes icon to launch and get a pretty “Choose iTunes Library” window!
Ep 10: Dr. Stephen Kahn and Dissecting the Sociopath
Dr. Steven Kahn joins us to talk about his life’s work with child molesters, sociopaths, and serial criminals. These are the characters that come together in his new book, and we’ll invite them to the round table this week. Ep 10: Dr. Stephen Kahn and Dissecting the Sociopath
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