“Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.”
I wrote about the flipped classroom, porcine suicide and Taylor Swift for the Kernel magazine's back-to-school issue. MOLB readers may also like Audrey Watters' article on the "MOOC revolution that…
The tsunami has been postponed because MOOCs are a lousy product.
Before Kevin Carey came along, Stanford President John Hennessy was doing most of the heavy lifting as the bad guy in the MOOC chapter of the online education book that…
“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…
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…
Not ready to make nice.
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…
Big fish eat little fish?
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…
MOOCs: Not dead yet.
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…
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…
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…
