Rebooting the Academy [Kindle Edition]

Tim McCormick (Author), Jeffrey Young (Author)

Book Description

Is higher-education the next bubble to burst? Plenty of people outside of academe think it's an industry ripe for disruption and change. New approaches to teaching and research with digital tools are being tried that could be transformative to the future of higher education. Rebooting the Academy takes you inside a dozen of these ideas.

Product Details

• File Size: 1184 KB
• Print Length: 114 pages
• Publisher: The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 24, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008OMUHRC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,768 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Contents Page July 26, 2012

By Jeffrey Young

Since the Table of Contents doesn't show up on this preview, here's a list of the articles in the book:

Rebooting the Academy 12 Tech Innovators Who Are Transforming Campuses

Introduction - Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education

1. Salman Khan, Khan Academy
Profile: An Outsider Calls for a Teaching Revolution
Essay: YouTube U. Beats YouSnooze U.

2. Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason University
Profile: A Digital Humanist Puts New Tools in the Hands of Scholars
Essay: Is Google Good for History?

3. François Grey, Tsinghua University
Profile: One Researcher's Solution to the Data Deluge: Enlist `Citizen Scientists'
Essay: Opening Up Science, One Lab at a Time

4. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Modern Language Association
Profile: An Academic Hopes to Take the MLA Into the Social Web
Essay: Networking the Field

5. Bradley C. Wheeler, Indiana U.
Profile: A Business Professor Turned CIO Practices What He Teaches
Essay: Fixing the High Price of Textbooks

6. Robert W. Mendenhall Western Governors U.
Profile: A President Brings a Revolutionary University to Prominence
Essay: Using Technology to Build a New Kind of University

7. Jim Groom, U. of Mary Washington
Profile: Self-Described `EduPunk' Says Colleges Should Abandon Course-Management Systems
Essay: Innovation As a Communal Act

8. Adrian Sannier, Pearson
Profile: Software Evangelist Wants to Put Learning-Management Software in the Cloud
Essay: Education's Digital Shift: If Not Now, When?

9.... Burck Smith, StraighterLine
Profile: Entrepreneur Finds a Way to Offer Credited Courses on the Cheap
Essay: Disrupting College: Lessons from iTunes

10. Candace Thille, Carnegie Mellon U.
Profile: Treating Higher Ed's `Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses
Essay: Changing the Production Function in Higher Education

11. Laura Czerniewicz, U. of Cape Town
Profile: Technology Director Turns Cellphones Into Classrooms
Essay: Educational Technology for Equity

12: John P. Wilkin, U. of Michigan
Profile: Grounding Tomorrow's Digital Library in Traditional Values
Essay: The Past, Present, and Future of the HathiTrust Digital Library

Acknowledgements
About the Editors

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3.0 out of 5 stars OK June 17, 2013

By kwigby

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Some of the articles are good and have new ideas, but I was hoping for more from Salmon Kahn's article.

1.0 out of 5 stars One Cliche After Another May 30, 2013

By Reader7

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A person would expect more from a book about changing colleges. This is essentially one trite and tired charge after another to the effect that we need change now. There is no sustained analysis of problems with higher education or evidence to support the claims that are made. Fortunately I only paid the discounted Kindle price.