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Reid Cornwell's Blog – May 2011 Archive (5)

Most Companies Are Still Clueless About Social Media Read more: Megan Ennes, Harvard Business Review

Social media has arrived, but companies still aren't sure what to do with it.Fifty-eight percent of companies are currently engaged in social networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, and sharing multimedia on platforms such as YouTube – but research from the Harvard Business Review Analytics Services report "The New Conversation: Taking Social Media from Talk to Action" [Report PDF; sponsored by SAS] finds that much of… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on May 28, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Instructional Technology: Looking Backward, Thinking Forward

Added by Reid Cornwell on May 25, 2011 at 10:16am — No Comments

Reform the PhD system or close it down! : Mark Taylor

There are too many doctoral programs, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor.

The system of PhD education in the United States and many other countries is broken and unsustainable, and needs to be re-conceived. In many fields, it creates only a cruel fantasy of future employment that promotes the self-interest of faculty members at the expense of students. The reality is that there are very few jobs for people who… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on May 18, 2011 at 8:09am — 4 Comments

Study: It's Not Teacher, But Method That Matters

WASHINGTON May 12, 2011, 03:42 pm ET

Who's better at teaching difficult physics to a class of more than 250 college students: the highly rated veteran professor using time-tested lecturing, or the inexperienced graduate students interacting with kids via devices that look like TV remotes? The answer could rattle ivy on college walls.

A study by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, now a science adviser to President Barack Obama,…

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Added by Reid Cornwell on May 13, 2011 at 11:08am — 1 Comment

Vint Cerf's Final Frontier: The Inteplanetary Internet

"Father of the Internet" now focused on building a communications network capable of supporting deep space exploration.

What does the man who invented the Internet do for an encore? He builds a space-based version of the worldwide computing and communications network. "We need a set of protocols that work on interplanetary distances, TCP/IP does not," said Cerf, at a press conference… Continue

Added by Reid Cornwell on May 12, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

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