Recent Learning Hacks Posts

Crazy Talk: The Do-What-You-Love Guide

‘Everything you can imagine is real.’ ~Pablo Picasso Post written by Leo Babauta. When I wrote the first words of this blog, more than five years ago, I had no… Read more »

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I Couldn’t Have Done it Without You

“I couldn’t have done it without you.” I have heard this from several students this spring when admissions decisions came out. I appreciate the thought. I really do. But you… Read more »

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3 Start-Up Announcements From the Education Innovation Summit

The companies offer innovations to aid learning or to measure skills like teamwork and problem-solving.... Read more »

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Remembering Your Roots

Who is your mother’s mother? This is the question that a recent blog post by Ann Marie Klotz, Assistant Director for Selection and Training at DePaul University had me thinking… Read more »

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Online-Education Start-Up Teams With Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses

Coursera provides a course platform through partnerships between Princeton, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.... Read more »

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‘Me.edu’: Debating the Coming Personalization of Higher Ed

How will data mining shape the student experience? What does educational personalization look like? A panel at an innovation conference imagined the future.... Read more »

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Why We Overplan

‘A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Lao Tzu Post written by Leo Babauta. There is something about my mind, and many people’s minds… Read more »

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The One-On-One: Make it Fun

Several years ago I was introduced to the podcasts over at Manager Tools.  Full disclosure I gain in absolutely no way from endorsing Manager Tools.  But we all collectively gain… Read more »

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3 Things Your Application Essay Can Do – and 3 Things it Can’t

The following is a guest post by Carol Barash, PhD. Carol is the founder and CEO of Story to College.  Let’s get the bad news out of the way first… Read more »

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Five Years Later, We are All Hokies

Standing bleary eyed on the fourth floor of Alumni Hall, I stared at the glass the police officer was pointing toward. “Do you remember if that was here yesterday?” he… Read more »

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