6.Higher Ed Management: Dr. Keith Hampson of Acrobatiq (A Carnegie Mellon University venture) writes about management strategy for those working in digital higher education. The posts cover design and development, innovation, business models and trends in technology strategy.
7.Logorrhea: A higher ed blog written by David Hinson, an eCampus News advisory board member, the Director of Information Technology at Yeshivah of Flatbush, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and a mobile platform developer, Hinson brings his (primarily video) experiences to life both higher ed and mobile development.
8.The Lone Sysadmin: This higher ed blog, created by Bob Plankers, a virtualization architect, system administrator, storage administrator, network administrator, end user, project manager, and developer, derives its name from The X-Files’ “Lone Gunmen” hackers. “I write for various technology outlets, and serve as an analyst with The Virtualization Practice. I also operate a consulting business specializing in system design, automation, and modern IT operations. I am an IT generalist and I’m good at it. I’m also not nearly as cocky as the previous sentence makes me seem,” he writes. “In my 25 years of working in IT I’ve concluded one thing: technology is easy, it’s the people that are hard. Plankers’ posts focus on the human side of IT management, highlighting accomplishments that don’t just come from surviving technical crises.
9.Mistaken Goal: Blogger Kevin Guidry is a senior research analyst in the Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning (CTAL) at the University of Delaware. “The URL for this site is inspired by a common theme we face in life in which we can easily mistake the tools we are (or should be) using to accomplish a goal for the goal itself. It’s an issue I often face as I become immersed in particular tools – technologies, pedagogies, analytic techniques, etc. – so it’s good for me to have this constant reminder to keep my focus where it more properly belongs,” he writes. “This is not a unique thought and many other people have expressed it more eloquently than I. One of my favorite formulations is from Stanley N. Katz in ‘In Information Technology, Don’t Mistake a Tool for a Goal’: “…technology is not something that happens to us. It is something we create. We must not confuse a tool with a goal. We must, therefore, be sure that technology serves the fundamental purposes of higher education.” Guidry investigates the junction of student affairs and technology, and became a hit when he provided a first-hand account of his experience as a MOOC student.
10.Prof Hacker: The blog, part of The Chronicle’s network of educational blogs and forums, contains posts that are written by a rotating band of professors and educators. Edited by Jason B Jones, director of Educational Technology at Trinity College, and George H Williams, associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate, ProfHacker provides “tips, tutorials and commentary on pedagogy, productivity and technology in Higher Education.”
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