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The quadruple face-palm and academic freedom
Sports Reporter #1: Here comes Florida Atlantic associate professor Jim Tracy, just off his triple face-palm asserting a conspiracy over the Sandy Hook shootings. Sports Reporter #2: Let’s see what he does here. Tracy is relatively new to high visibility academic nuttery, at least at this level of competition. #1: Tracy looks at the timekeeper, […]
Odds and ends to begin spring break
For the first time I can recall, my children and I are on spring break the same week, which given that we are talking the coordination of three different systems, is Spring Break Convergence. It’s great to have our college junior home from the Northeast; on the downside, we cannot complain about the weather for […]
The MOOC poem (apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There was a giant MOOC, based on a little book when MOOC hype was trending torrid, And when MOOCS were good, they were very, very good, But when they were bad they were horrid. Profs stood on their heads, “students” watching from bed, With nobody by for to hinder; Peer-graded squalor, plagiarized in the hollers, […]
The institutional dilemmas of online education, or why there ain’t no such thing as a monolith
This entry may appear cryptic, because it was inspired or prodded or nagged into being by a Twitter conversation between Sara Goldrick-Rab of U. Wisconsin-Madison and Andrew Kelly of the American Enterprise Institute, discussing whether online education is a “profit center” of colleges and universities and whether the siren song of MOOCs is … um, […]
FL Court: “Okay, legislature, you get a pass… but it’s not blanket approval”
A quick note on today’s decision of the Florida Supreme Court that the legislature has the authority to set tuition for the state’s public universities. In 2002, voters approved a state constitutional amendment that created the Board of Governors as a constitutional body to manage the state’s universities. Several key supporters of that amendment were […]