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Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/30/120430fa_fact_auletta ends with a discussion of distance learning
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Should Tenure for College Professors Be Abolished? – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577418293114042070.html
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Should Colleges Consider Legacies in the Admissions Process? – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249230164868846.html
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Universities Offer Courses in a Hot New Field – Data Science – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/education/edlife/universities-offer-courses-in-a-hot-new-field-data-science.html MT @KromerBigData: #DataScience in @nytimes http://bit.ly/13mPhxS McKinsey says ~60%...
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Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations – NYTimes.com
Debate rages over availability of history dissertations in NYT: Does a 6-year embargo make sense? http://bit.ly/13VgQCD via @ivanoransky...
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MOOC URLs
URLs for a couple of courses recommended on Coursera: Parallel Programming – especially with GPUs (Wenmei Hwu, UIUC): https://class.coursera.org/hetero-2012-001/class Machine Learning (Andrew Ng,...
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The college class that could reveal your real father – Salon.com
Stuart Kim’s #Personalgenomics class @Stanford: The college class that could reveal your real father http://www.salon.com/2013/09/14/the_college_class_that_could_reveal_your_real_father via @lindaavey
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MOOC on bioinformatics
Pavel Pevzner is starting a MOOC on Bioinformatics in Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/bioinformatics) and 23 & me is starting a MOOC on genomics in udacity...
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Rebecca Mead: A Chicken Club at Avenues : The New Yorker
DEPT. OF EDUCATION FOR THE BIRDS BY REBECCA MEAD JANUARY 6, 2014 New venture for ex-Yale president: Chicken Club at Avenues http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2014/01/06/140106ta_talk_mead HT @colinbmurphy...
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Leon Botstein and the Future of Bard College
Pictures from an Institution http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/pictures-institution Interesting fact on #Bard College: Leon Botstein became president decades ago at 23 Leon Botstein made...
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An hereditary meritocracy
An hereditary meritocracy http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-rich-and-powerful-are-increasingly-well-suited-earning-wealth-and-power The rich gaming college admissions? Public...
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Rebooting MOOC Research
Rebooting #MOOC Research https://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/34.summary Perspective from an #education institution: How to measure engagement of the student?
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Useful NIH Funding Data on Bioinformatics Education
BD2K funded programs so far… https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k/funded-programs/enhancing-training/institutional-grants NIGMS Comp Bio & Bioinfo funded predoctoral programs...
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Links related to the ISCB Curriculum Task force
Here are some links related to the ISCB Curriculum Task Forces: http://connect.iscb.org/communities/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=f7986992-1c0c-4a52-bd1d-74a2386c4962...
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The great international paper airplane book – Jerry Mander, George Dippel,...
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Great_International_Paper_Airplane_B.html
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A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety
A gradient of childhood #selfcontrol predicts health, wealth & public safety http://www.PNAS.org/content/108/7/2693.full From following 1K kids from 0 to 32 yrs
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Education in Computational Biology Today and Tomorrow
Education in #CompBio, by @bffo & @joannealisonfox http://journals.PLOS.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003391 Keeping up in a rapidly changing field. Will implement some @Yale...
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Learning and earning: Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative |...
Lifelong Learning http://www.Economist.com/news/special-report/21714169-technological-change-demands-stronger-and-more-continuous-connections-between-education Future for colleges? Microcredentails...
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Machine learning: Tech is transforming what happens when a child goes to school...
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