What If Some Faculty Don’t Want to Come Back to Campus?
I don’t want to do anything to deny that there is going to be an awful lot of suffering in the weeks ahead, but it does appear that the end…
The all-faculty university.
JP and I wrote about Western Governors University in Education Is Not an App. Therefore, when I heard that the Inspector General's Office at the Department of Education had asked…
The means of educational production.
I've had two articles come out in the last two days, and I think both deserve at least a shout-out here. The first is a Chronicle Vitae "column" about teaching…
MOOCs: A Postmortem
MOOCs are dead. "How can I possibly argue that MOOCs are dead?," you may ask. After all, to borrow the stats just from Coursera, they have: 1600 courses, 130+ specializations,…
“I always feel like somebody’s watching me.”
My old friend Historiann has a post up today that really deserves every professor's attention. The subject is a new-fangled productivity measuring tool now being implemented at Baa Ram U.:…
“With or without you.”
So it appears that Western Governors University [WGU] is being scrutinized by the federal government about the role of faculty in its competency-based online offerings. Here's the key part of…
Worker’s Control in Academia.
There I go, bringing David Montgomery into it again...
The death of expertise.
A few days ago, a Twitter acquaintance of mine – the gloriously cynical Professor Enron – wrote out a Twitter rant that I've had trouble shaking. I don't really feel…
“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…
