The rhythm of the classroom.
"There's a tsunami coming," President John Hennessy of Stanford University told the New Yorker in 2012. That presumably explains his efforts to keep his university at the forefront of the…
Ice harvesting, 1869.
One of the advantages of writing a book about something you already know something about is that you often know exactly what you're looking for when you surf the Internet.…
“This land is not for sale. Some day I hope to build on it.”
I was hanging out with a philosophy professor at an interdisciplinary conference on Friday night. This is not something I usually do, but this guy was way cool. Besides specializing…
Techno-fetishists can’t see the forest through the trees.
I actually remember the speeches at my college graduation. It helps that the President of Penn when I graduated was the late, great Southern historian Sheldon Hackney. While I can't…
In which I repeatedly namecheck Disney’s “Frozen.”
Apparently, the still relatively new website "We're History" is doing very, very well. I got asked to produce this article as a result of telling my editor there, Heather Cox…
MOOCs as torture.
White man's neo-liberal techno-fantasy. These are not the kind of words designed to get me to read a book, yet these are the terms that keep appearing in my Twitter…
Between a rock and a hard place.
I became fascinated by Ben Nelson's Minerva Project long before I became fascinated with MOOCs. You can see the product of that fascination in my one (and so far only)…
Hell has frozen over.
This Broncos fan has written something nice about Richard Sherman.
What do Salman Khan and Scott Walker have in common?
Q. What do Salman Khan and Scott Walker have in common? A. Neither one of them seems to think that teachers work particularly hard. Let me explain: Like all good…
I called this one.
"Coursera, a leading provider of free, online education, is shifting its strategy to allow universities to use its courses for everyday teaching in place of conventional lectures. The company’s co-founder,…
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