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Education Bubble maybe or maybe not - the siren call of Peter Thiel

Education Bubble maybe or maybe not – the siren call of Peter Thiel

By Dan Morrill on April 11, 2011

I will agree with Peter Thiel that education as we know it is hard to justify the inputs versus the outputs, especially the costs of education.  I have attended many colleges over the years, graduated from two of them, have an advanced degree and feel good about it. The degree has helped me with employment, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged education, education bubble, Higher Education, Ivy League, paypal, peter thiel, techcrunch

Repositories in the Cloud? Why on earth not?!

Repositories in the Cloud? Why on earth not?!

By Paul Miller on February 22, 2010

To be honest, I’ve never fully understood Higher Education’s penchant for building ‘institutional repositories.’ These frequently under-populated aggregations of academic papers produced by ‘research active’ employees of a particular university appear aligned almost exclusively to vaguely expressed institutional imperatives, and seem largely unrelated to either the selfish aspirations of the contributing authors or the tangible […]

Posted in Analysis, Infrastructure | Tagged Academic publishing, Amazon Web Services, Andy Powell, Archives, aws, cloud computing, Colleges and Universities, Eduserv, Higher Education, infochimps, Institutional repository, JISC, Open access, open data, Panton Principles, repcloud, research, software as a service

University moves 50,000 accounts to Zimbra in a private Cloud

University moves 50,000 accounts to Zimbra in a private Cloud

By Paul Miller on March 4, 2009

‘Fresh’ after a trans-Atlantic flight to Los Angeles, a two hour drive down the coast to San Diego, and a night somewhat disturbed by the clanking of goods trains, I had to read my copy of the Wall Street Journal more than once to be sure of what I was seeing. But yes, sure enough, […]

Posted in General | Tagged Bruce Maas, Higher Education, Paul Miller, Podcast, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM, zimbra | 1 Response

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