Category Archives: writing

Launching a new project: Future Trends in Technology and Education

This week I’m starting a new project.  It’s a monthly email newsletter called Future Trends in Technology and Education, or FTTE. It’s the successor to the Future Trends report I created for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). … Continue reading

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Launching Future Trends report

This month I fired off the first issue of a monthly report on the future of higher education.  It’s called Future Trends, and goes to leaders of NITLE Network campuses. In each report I present a list of significant trends … Continue reading

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Open education, a new paper

My NITLE colleague Lisa Spiro and I have co-authored a new paper.   “Open Education in the Liberal Arts: A NITLE Working Paper” (April 2012) is a working paper that covers a lot of open education ground.  We describe the … Continue reading

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New Future of Higher Education column

My last Educause Quarterly column just came out, “Imagining the Future of Higher Education”.  And I had a lot of fun with it, from outrageous scenario names to sneaking in ghost stories.

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Collaboration futures: a new column

A new column of mine just appeared.  It’s about the future of collaboration and its impact on education.  I posit a transformed collaboration space, “a planetary field of collaborative play, uneven and dynamic.” This has huge implications for education. …schools … Continue reading

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New article forthcoming on digital humanities

I have a new article about digital humanities coming out next year. Co-authored with my brilliant NITLE colleague Rebecca Frost Davis, it’s “Should Liberal Arts Campuses Do Digital Humanities? Process and Products in the Small College World”.  It will appear … Continue reading

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Winter is coming: guest post on homesteading

I wrote a short meditation on homesteading between winters over at Open View Gardens. I haven’t written much about our family’s homesteading work, beyond our family blog.  The project looms enormously in our lives, as one might expect.  That post should … Continue reading

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I take on scholarly communication and the future

I’ve started a research project on scholarly communication, which has led to two publications so far. First, a column on the future of scholarly publication, seen as part of higher education.  It’s my initial Educause Quarterly column, a series on … Continue reading

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The New Digital Storytelling hits the shelves and Web

My book is out.  You can find The New Digital Storytelling on Amazon, from the publisher, or at your select bookstore. In support of the book I’m running a social media storytelling experiment.  Each day for a month I’ll share … Continue reading

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The New Digital Storytelling is about to appear

My new book is coming out in April, and is available for pre-order: The New Digital Storytelling. You can find more information and order copies from the publisher or via Amazon.

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