“Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?”
At the risk of sounding like one of the several thousand Republicans now running for President, I want to make a slippery slope argument here: Point 1: The Monster Turns…
At the risk of sounding like one of the several thousand Republicans now running for President, I want to make a slippery slope argument here: Point 1: The Monster Turns…
It's awesome that even though I'm down to something like a once-a-week posting schedule on this blog, people still tweet articles at me that are right up my alley. Saves…
I seem to find myself writing more and more about MOOCs again. Some of this is due to the fact that I'm finishing a book chapter on them right now. Some…
Dear Superprofessors, I know it has been a long time since I addressed you all directly, but there's been an important development in MOOCville that I wanted to be sure…
My version of academic survival literature is now up over at Vitae. Warning: It's kind of depressing, but then again so is academia these days.
There's an utterly reasonable comment on my last Arizona State/edX Global Fresman Academy post that deserves a response, so I figured I'd make it a post of its own. Here's…
So edX and Arizona State are gonna offer MOOCs for credit. Will the big fish eat the little fish? Actually, I think it will be more like the big fish…
I come here not to praise MOOCs, but to bury them. Or at the very least to get someone else to bonk them on the head so that we don't…
Yippee! Rebecca Schuman is back from maternity leave and writing at Slate again. This makes me happy because Rebecca is a) prone to say exactly what everybody else familiar with…
I spent most of a day talking to the team that made this BBC World Service radio documentary about refrigerators. I even went to visit Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA…