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Transitions: new job
The email I just sent to my colleagues at the University of South Florida: Dear colleagues, I wish to take the opportunity this afternoon to thank all of you for your collegiality and friendship over the years, which means a great deal as I transition to my new role at the Cushing College of Wilhuff […]
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, […]
Three books on heterodox quant: Bayes, econometrics, and demography
One of my resolutions this year is to engage in a long-term effort to upgrade my quantitative skills, as I’m a mid-career historian with some quantitative skills, of the type that inherently grow stale (along with my patience with SAS). I thought I’d share my thoughts about a few books, two of which I’m in […]
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 […]
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 […]