Are classrooms prepared for e-textbooks? I’m briefly quoted in this public radio piece about student attitudes toward digital books.
I was also interviewed on this Marketplace mid-day extra about student reaction to the daylong Wikipedia outage.

The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today’s fast-changing job market. The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today’s fast-changing job market. (Full story at Chronicle of Higher Education | Picked up on Slashdot as well.)

Update: I wrote a news-analysis about the educational-badges trend for the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review.