by Mark Greenfield | Oct 2, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
Yesterday my local paper ran a front page story titled “Upsurge in student loans threatens economy”. The article explains how the near doubling in the cost of higher education in the past decade could haunt the U.S. economy for years. Some of the...
by Mark Greenfield | Oct 1, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
Is Higher Education a Business? The mere mention of this notion always starts a heated debate, especially with my faculty friends. My view is that yes, higher education is a business. No, it’s not about making a profit. But it is about running an organization...
by Mark Greenfield | Sep 27, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
When most people think of globalisation, they automatically think of manufacturing jobs. But Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat is not about manufacturing but about knowledge work, the kind of work web professionals do. I came across a good analogy in Dan...
by Mark Greenfield | Sep 25, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat
The first theme we will explore for the presentation at HighEdWebDev 2007 is how the world has been flattened. I will be making several posts over the next few days on this topic. The first edition of Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat was published in 2005. The...
by Mark Greenfield | Sep 6, 2007 | Blog, highedwebflat, management
I will again be presenting at the HighEdWebDev conference in Rochester which is scheduled for October 14 – 17, 2007. My presentation is will be on Tuesday morning at 8:15 a.m. and is called “Higher Ed Web Development Gets Flattened or How I Learned to Stop...
