MOOCs: Making the unacceptable acceptable since 2012.
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: The experiment is over.
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…
“We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore.”
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…
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…
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…
The mushy MOOC middle.
"Few people would now be willing to argue that massive open online courses are the future of higher education. The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling…
Teach AND perish.
A little earlier today, some nice folks at the Chronicle (not the same ones who occasionally pay me money to write stuff) temporarily opened up a new locked article called…
Happy MOOC Year (or maybe not)!
While most people spend the start of the New Year looking forward, I've been looking back at my old MOOC posts today, trying to think of something new to say…
“I want to break free.”
So apparently I've driven Michael Feldstein to drink. I, for one, think the quality of his post is worth the cost (but then again it's not my liver that's involved).…
Grave dancers union?
Apparently, there's this big edtech conference going on in Florida. The Chronicle reports: MOOC fever is cooling, at least among campus information-technology administrators, according to the 2014 edition of the…
