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July 9, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

One facet does not a white paper make

DT > Digital Textbooks: From Print to Digital http://bit.ly/MSDsNy The standards for “white paper” just got demoted to “house organ,” if it hadn’t happened already. #DSQ One facet does not a […]

July 9, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

Promotions are last century

“This means we can all just stop talking about promotions like they matter. A promotion has meaning when someone is moving up the corporate ladder at such a slow pace […]

February 14, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

Putting Students Ahead of Fear

As a new player with a new business model, we have to deal with a lot of skepticism. Your product is free and high quality? That’s not possible. These two […]

January 24, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

Apple is not “reinventing education.”

They make beautiful, easy-to-use hardware (iPad, iPhone). They are also a distributor (iTunes), and they are good at that. They also build cool tools to empower creativity (GarageBand, KeyNote, iWeb), […]

January 3, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

2012: Welcome to Our Year

After a nice respite over the holidays, I’m happy to be back at my desk. Why? Because 2012 is quite likely to be our year at Flat World Knowledge. The […]

December 19, 2011 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

MITx

MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will: organize […]

December 19, 2011 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

What’s it like writing for Flat World Knowledge?

Dr. Miles McCrimmon pulls back the curtain to reveal a little of the publishing process behind the creation of Flat World Knowledge textbooks. The ‘how’ is almost as important as […]

July 18, 2011 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

On Expertise

Expertise is a posture as much as it is a volume of knowledge. –Seth Godin