Michael Roth is President of Wesleyan University and the man behind The Modern and the Postmodern, a popular undergraduate class at Wesleyan and one of the most interesting humanities MOOCs (offered by Coursera). I’ve taken Roth’s course (and reviewed it here) and in a wide ranging interview we talked about his experience teaching his first […]
Fourth of July Fan Mail
Taking the day off to enjoy with the family. But to pass the time, I leave you with the words of some commenter’s whose fan mail was blocked by my site’s over-eager comment spam blocker: “This article is in fact a fastidious one it assists new the web people, who are wishing for blogging.” “Hi […]
My Favorite MOOC Skeptic
Readers of the Degree of Freedom newsletter may have stumbled on an Easter Egg I included in one of the links section a week or so ago which pointed to a hilarious article by Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg who – responding to the notion that college administrators might start replacing living, breathing professors with […]
MOOC Discussion: Flame Wars
Word has it that a flame war has broken out in the discussion boards of one of the more recently started MOOCs, causing some agita on the part of the instructor who has been forced to delete some discussion threads and accounts, as well as have to deal with angry communications from students who felt […]
What is a College?
At the end of last week’s podcast, I threw out a few stories about the quirky origins of some of America’s best known universities to demonstrate that the institutions of higher ed we now consider symbols of the mainstream began in ways that seem strikingly familiar in today’s age of educational entrepreneurship. Technology enabled learning […]
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