As I started to discuss last week, new hot product categories getting lots of investor attention (such as EdTech) tend to attract entrepreneurs ready to play a mediating role between consumers and new technology products (such as MOOCs). And one of the pleasures of being a writer/researcher working in a trendy field is that I […]
Interview with Wesleyan President Michael Roth – Part 2
This week, I continue my discussion with Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University and the man behind Coursera’s The Modern and the Postmodern. Our conversation covers how his experience teaching a massive online course might impact how he teaches his live course in the future, as well as what MOOCs and other forms of technology-based learning mean […]
MOOC Mediation
My wife is part of a generation of historians of technology who helped moved the field from a focus on inventions and inventors to an investigation of the broader context in which technologies were introduced and succeeded (or failed). For instance, it’s easy to assume that technologies we now take for granted (such as the […]
Reality Check – MOOCs for Credit
The loud debate over what would happen to traditional universities once students were able to receive actual college credit for completing a MOOC seems to presume that: (1) MOOC classes provided (and could measure) the same amount of learning as their brick-and-mortar equivalents (2) Presuming (1) was correct, mechanisms could be put in place to […]
Degree of Freedom Summertime Schedule
As some of you may have noticed, I slacked off yesterday with regard to posting something to the Degree of Freedom site. Part of the reason was to give Part 1 of my interview with Michael Roth from Wesleyan University the chance to stay at the top of the site one day after the holiday […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 56
- 57
- 58
- 59
- 60
- …
- 77
- Next Page »