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Teacher ed reform: short, cynical version
I’ve been having some troubles finishing a blog entry on remedial education–there are multiple moving pieces in my head, and explaining how they fit together is partly a matter of taking them apart and rearranging them. I had intended to finish it Friday, and then Saturday, and now sometime this year apparently. But since there’s […]
Package Rules: Why the Udacity-San Jose State collaboration will beat “unbundling”
This week, two of California’s three higher education systems announced their intent to partner with for-profit online education companies such as Udacity to experiment with online and blended courses. This expansion in online education will be unlike the first courses in commercial MOOCs (massive open online courses), ((A caveat on the term MOOC: Udacity is […]
What administrators should say when faculty are controversial
Since both the University of Rhode Island and Florida Atlantic University follow the standard practice of trying to make up responses to controversies over faculty statements, responses that fell well short of a vigorous defense of academic principles, I thought I might provide a boilerplate press release for all colleges and universities that can be […]
How not to teach hacking
Audrey Watters talks about the gap between her desire to learn coding and xMOOCs‘ pitiful exploitation of code-learning desires in My Code Year. Over the year, she has described her various efforts at coding-related MOOCs and the ways in which the various courses have failed to meet her needs as a working adult with her level […]
Social class, higher education, and random thoughts from a parent
Jason DeParle’s New York Times December 22 profile of three young women from Galveston has created a great deal of online discussion despite the holidays and semester breaks, when you’d expect most faculty and higher ed journalists are ignoring these things. But the attention is deserved, both because DeParle’s piece is beautifully detailed and because he raises important […]