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…
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,…
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…
Remember MOOCs?
https://twitter.com/sivavaid/status/542102763564724224 Who wants a writing update? Well, you're going to get one anyway. JP and I split up the chapters of Education Is Not an App about a month ago,…
“They’re back.”: MOOCs II (the sequel).
So MOOCs are back in the news. What's that you say? You thought they were dead? Try undead. Jeff Selingo digs them up with an excerpt from his new e-book…
The MOOC revolution is indeed over.
The other day, after posting my last post here, I got into a friendly Twitter argument with the MOOC expert and future academic legend Rolin Moe. I, following conventional wisdom,…
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…
Superprofessors: Not actually all that super.
I have come to regret my frequent use of the word "superprofessor." Sure, it's fun to disaggregate it: "Super-" means over. "Super-" means superior. And in a sense that always…
