HypeX: What edX can and can’t do
The joint Harvard-MIT venture announced today has significant money ($60m), reputational credibility, and a coherent argument that has been missing from other massive online open course (MOOC) systems: that aggregation of thousands of students in a course can speed up research in higher education learning.
The different meanings of “public”
A brief gloss this morning on Bruce Baker’s take on whether (and the extent to which) charter schools are public schools: to historians this splitting of the meaning of “public” makes sense. As historians of education such as Michael Katz have noted, one of the consequences of the common-school movement in the 19th century was […]