“You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.”
From start to finish (minus another book in the middle) it took thirteen years to get Refrigeration Nation into print. The problem was deciding the level of focus that I…
“Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.”
I wrote about the flipped classroom, porcine suicide and Taylor Swift for the Kernel magazine's back-to-school issue. MOLB readers may also like Audrey Watters' article on the "MOOC revolution that…
“Yeah, a storm is threatening my very life today.”
So I got to meet Audrey Watters yesterday. Her talk here in Madison at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Summer Institute was (as you might expect) pretty intense. I highly recommend…
The tsunami has been postponed because MOOCs are a lousy product.
Before Kevin Carey came along, Stanford President John Hennessy was doing most of the heavy lifting as the bad guy in the MOOC chapter of the online education book that…
Your mid-summer refrigeration history update.
Why haven't I been blogging more? Writing. Refrigerator is now out of my hands and is scheduled to appear in September. I wrote that last summer as something of a…
He lost me at “scale.”
I don't know the historian Steve Mintz, but I do know he's a pioneer in putting all kinds of historical resources online. This means he was doing what we now…
“Mine.”
People harsh on lectures. For example, while those of us in North America were sleeping last night, my friend Kate noted: I’ve loved the experience of listening to people who…
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
Way back in 2012, when the new all "online-Ivy" Minerva, was known less formally as "the Minerva Project," the MIT Technology Review explained founder Ben Nelson's labor plan: Nelson says…
Bullet points. All I got is bullet points.
I just came back from two weeks on the road, and am more than a little bushed. However, there are a few things I want to share here: * If…
Time has come today.
Long before most of us ever heard of MOOCs, I was taking cheap potshots at online education (and my personal all-time favorite). A lot of those cheap potshots were accurate…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- …
- 13
- Go to the next page
