on the rise Adjunctification continues Alternative online learning Textbooks going ebook+ Scholarly publication and/versus open access Higher education budgets Computer hardware ecology Has the World Wide Web hit its limit? January-Feb 2012 scan sample
Some tuition freezes, cuts Intergenerational tensions: public + private International liberal education Maker culture on campus High-speed trading Global economic stresses Rise of natural gas March 2012 scan sample
company Social media growth continues "Generation Screwed" vs seniors online Microsoft tablet Google US-sources hardware More Asian than Hispanic immigrants Certification rising New OLI use cases Kickstarter continues to grow One R1 tries to cut libraries down Academic unions crit distance learning July 2012 scan sample
Century" (1991) “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”
more family members unemployed “ “ “ “ “ underemployed Public education has always been stretched to breaking point/poor Public-private gap even wider Online learning can beat their schools “Library” denotes digital collection
Studies (MIT, 2005) •Frans Mayra, An Introduction to Game Studies (Sage, 2008) •Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds. Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives (MIT, 2009)