I don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...
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Learning by heart is 'pointless for Google generation'

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Casting Out Course Management Software
I've started to wonder whether higher education software shouldn't simple be abandoned in favor of using a wide range of Web 2.0 apps that are now available. This article is predicting this will happen.
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By the Blog: Academics Tread Carefully
Interesting discussion of academic blogging in the Times Higher Education
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Financial Crisis Hitting University Payrolls
Story claims that Wachovia is freezing the accounts of over 1,000 colleges - these are accounts they use to pay faculty and staff. Read more over on Leiter's blog.
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NEH Gives Grants to Design of Courses that Philosophy Already Teaches
On the one hand it's nice that the NEH is concerned about developing these courses. On the other hand, it seems as if it's been overlooked that philosophy departments already teach these courses on a regular basis. As Leiter notes...bizarre.
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Are you ODD?
Kvanvig discusses "oppositional and defiant disorder" noting that the symptoms look suspiciously similar to good old-fashioned critical thinking. Links to a more in depth chronicle piece.
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Academia - New Global Network for Academics
A new global network for academics from all disciplines, with nice tree structure, social net-working options and space for personal websites.
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Ethics of Selling Textbooks
This thread began a few months ago at Philosophers' Anonymous. It invites readers to discuss whether or not it is wrong to sell those free, unsolicited text books to the used textbook dealers that come knocking on your office door.
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The Second Failure of Academia
"It is utterly absurd that we have no standard options after retirement for senior philosophers who still want to be actively involved in philosophy."
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