MoneyLaw‘s Jim Chen (a former University of Minnesota law school professor and new dean at the University of Louisville) posted his take on Tom Sullivan’s defense of tenure related to the University of Minnesota’s quest to become one of the top three public research universities in the world (see also last week’s EF note). He [...]

Brock Dubbels is looking for more people that belong to (or that can soon join) the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – for a Special Interest Group (SIG) especially for 3D Virtual Worlds, such as Second Life. http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=ARVEL The Applied Research for Virtual Environments for Learning (ARVEL) special interest group at AERA, “is a community [...]

Just a quick note… Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant compiled a list of his take at what the top 30 education blogs might look like, based on Technorati rankings. He ranks himself at #24. Congratulations, Scott! The list, itself, is interesting. Read his post, then download the Excel file. Comments

I’ve refrained from commenting on politics up to now, but this is too absurd to be ignored any longer. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising [...]

ZDNet is running a blog story on the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. Particular attention in the article is focused on the debate between Ray Kurzweil and Douglas Hofstader on utopian versus dystopian futures: Kurzweil acknowledged that Singularity could lead to an unappealing or cataclysmic future, but he believes his vision will have a soft [...]