“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…
Time has come today.
Long before most of us ever heard of MOOCs, I was taking cheap potshots at online education (and my personal all-time favorite). A lot of those cheap potshots were accurate…
Cut the professor a check and walk away.
It's awesome that even though I'm down to something like a once-a-week posting schedule on this blog, people still tweet articles at me that are right up my alley. Saves…
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…
“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…
