Bellylaughs Amid Technical Complexity
HTML5 and SVG may open new opportunities for deeper understanding of complex policy issues.
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Commentary, Query Tools, Research | Gary Lewis, December 24, 2009 12:31 pm | 
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Public Digital Spaces for Private Selves
Google’s recent announcement of Chrome OS makes me very uneasy.
Tags: digital commons
Commentary | Gary Lewis, December 2, 2009 4:52 pm | Comments Off
Information Metaphors
Most information metaphors offer only an awkward glimpse of what information feels like to me.
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Commentary | Gary Lewis, November 29, 2009 9:23 am | Comments Off
Learning at the Edges of Education
Lately I’ve found my focus on systemic change in higher education dissolving.
Tags: higher education institutional change, learning
Commentary | Gary Lewis, November 13, 2009 9:54 am | Comments Off
Education, Economic Performance and Social Progress
Education features prominently in the recent report from the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. There’s much to like, much to question, and some to reject.
Tags: higher education costs, higher education institutional change
Commentary | Gary Lewis, October 21, 2009 6:38 am | Comments Off
Learning Wish List
Tony Hirst asks: “[F]or those of you who do learn new stuff, maybe every day, what do you find most useful to support that presumably self-motivated learning?” Here are four learning tools I wish existed.
Commentary | Gary Lewis, October 12, 2009 12:59 pm | Comments Off
Status Report, September 2009
In July 2008 I posted the first installment of what I hoped would become an annual report. It was an attempt to consolidate my learning over the previous year and to reflect on possible directions for future projects. July 2009 came and went without a new annual report, but I still think the exercise is important. Evidently annual is too restrictive, so here is my latest Status Report.
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Business Models, Commentary, Research | Gary Lewis, September 22, 2009 8:05 am | Comments Off
More Open Education 2009 Fallout
For me higher educational change starts and ends with learning. And I don’t mind one bit trying to influence other people to see things the same way.
Tags: higher education institutional change
Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 28, 2009 10:12 am | Comments Off
The Tension Between Reform and a New Start
In two important recent posts, George Siemens considers the tension between reform in higher education and the need for a new start. It’s a tension also considered more generally by Kay Ryan in two poems.
Tags: higher education institutional change
Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 26, 2009 10:17 am | Comments Off
Nothing to Offer
What could you do to guide a college into a tomorrow certain only in its uncertainty? Here’s a list.
Tags: higher education institutional change
Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 12, 2009 10:50 am | Comments Off
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