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…
I have run out of interesting things to write about edtech.
Welcome to the new More or Less Bunk. I think this is version #4, if memory serves me well. I redesigned it again because I've started guesting in that computer…
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’ve come out of MOOC retirement.
I remember exactly when I took my first MOOC. It was Fall 2012 (during the run up to the last presidential election) and I was on sabbatical. If I didn't…
Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship.
On November 7, 1872, the American ship Mary Celeste left New York Harbor en route to Genoa, Italy. On December 5, 1872, a British brig discovered that vessel drifting in…
Time warp.
If I'm writing about superprofessors again it must be 2012, right?
Both sides now.
Way back during the "Year of the MOOC" my friend Jonathan Poritz in our math department wanted me to turn the predecessor of this blog into a book. "No way,"…
“You can’t always get what you want.”
There's a moment in the first segment of the 60 Minutes piece on Apple that ran last Sunday that I found kind of amazing. It's in an exchange between Charlie…
MOOC madness takes its toll.
It seems as if it's been a very long time since I've written anything about MOOCs. To be honest, I've been avoiding clicking on MOOC links entirely in order to…
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…
