I was taking a look at EDUCAUSE’s 2014 list of the top-ten IT issues facing higher education and was struck that—for the first time in this century—EDU IT’s top focus is on improving student learning!
Books
Open-Source Publisher Packt Reaches 1000th Title
Packt, publisher of many worthy books about technology topics that have helped me know what I’m doing, is about to publish their 1000th book. Many Packt titles, such as Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide, books on Drupal, and jQuery have been my guides to the open-source technologies I use every day. To celebrate, … Read more
W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn
As our inaugural book, we read W.G. Sebald‘s Rings of Saturn. Quotes [79-80] I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a … Read more