The week's highlights

This was a busy week, one day of which was spent in a strategic planning session. From that I still want to write a proper post on the fashionable topic of open distance learning, but for now just a quick round-up of the week.

I made a few posts in other places:

• At the School's blog: Opinions about President Zuma's recent call for a mixed economy for development.
• At Prezi: my #EdTech presentation on e-learning tools, tips and tricks.
• At the SoTL blog: Some ideas for using you iPad in 2013 (more than reading e-mail in meetings!).
• On YouTube: two short videos featuring the new addition to our household - Haruki the beagle.

I also stumbled across a few good reads:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education had a nice post on Community colleges and MOOCs.
• Andrew Kerr make an excellent contribution to the job creation / destruction debate at the Econ3x3 blog, shedding some light on the importance of large firms.
• Berk Ozler wrote that economists now have experiments figured out and it is time to focus on measurement and survey design.

You would think, where does he find the time, but I also started listening to Tim Harford's new podcast: Pop-up economics. The details from BBC Radio 4 are here, or search for it on iTunes.

And finally, I also started following Deirdre McCloskey on Twitter:

Econ grads think that “empirical” means #econometrics with #significance testing.It means in Greek "experience": simulate, compare, memory
— Deirdre N McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) January 15, 2013