Monthly Archives: September 2013

Reprise: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?

Community Service, Economics, Econproph.com, Presentations

Today, I reprised my presentation from last July to the Michigan Intergenerational Network.  The topic is: Do the Old Gain At the Expense of the Young?  An Economic View of Social Security, Medicare, and the Government Budget. This time the setting and audience was a guest lecture to the Madonna University Gerontology Dept.’s Policy

The Powerpoint file,  MIN-IntergenerationalTransferPrograms-30jul2013 is available here.

An overview of the talk below the fold: More

The Cloud and WordPress – Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup

Community Service, Presentations ,

I’m speaking Sunday, Sept 8, 2013 to the Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup group:

Amazon doesn’t just sell books. They’re also the largest provider of “cloud” computing resources. Jim will give a simple intro to Amazon Web Services “cloud computing” and demo how you can use Amazon S3 in WordPress to speed up downloads of media files at lower costs.

The Powerpoint is available from my AWS archive here.

The MOOC’s Are Coming! The MOOC’s Are Coming!

College Service/Committees, Presentations, Professional, Professional Development

DAY-OF-THE-MOOCI’m giving and hour-long workshop in the LCC Center for Teaching Excellence today on MOOC’s.  It’s kind of an introduction for faculty to the phenomenon and controversy that are MOOC’s. (thanks to M.Branson Smith for the graphic)

Download the Powerpoint file here.

I will be expanding this presentation and making it into a full-online discussion about MOOC’s and the future with a particular emphasis on faculty.  This online version and discussion will actually be a MOOC about MOOC’s (how’s that for meta!).  It will be the inaugural MalartOOC.  MalartOOC’s are a series of professional conversations by faculty for faculty about what we do.  They will be offered by Malartu, Inc., a new non-profit started by faculty to support faculty at all higher ed institutions.  For more information about Malartu, see Malartu.org.  To express interest or get more information about participating in the inaugural MalartOOC about MOOC’s, faculty, and the future of higher education, please post a reply to this blog post below or send your email address to jol@malartu.org.

For a full list of links, references, and credits in the presentation, see below the fold:
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