“This land is not for sale. Some day I hope to build on it.”
I was hanging out with a philosophy professor at an interdisciplinary conference on Friday night. This is not something I usually do, but this guy was way cool. Besides specializing…
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…
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…
Between a rock and a hard place.
I became fascinated by Ben Nelson's Minerva Project long before I became fascinated with MOOCs. You can see the product of that fascination in my one (and so far only)…
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…
But The Man CAN bust our music.
As a comparatively old person, I think in albums. No song from the second side of "Abbey Road" sounds right to me unless the whole thing is played in order.…
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,…
