When it becomes made available, I’m planning to post footage of talks and presentations I’ve participated in, starting with the video below of a discussion that took place a couple of weekends ago during MIT’s 2014 Tech Conference. This was a panel discussion entitled “Disrupting Education,” although the disruption we all focused on begins with M […]
Interview with HarvardX Researcher Justin Reich
Today’s podcast guest is Justin Reich, Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow, a Fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a visiting lecturer in the Scheller Teacher Education Program at MIT. Justin was that guy some of you saw on stage when Harvard released its research findings back in January. And […]
Making Money Off MOOCs
Having talked about how a sales approach (or at least sales metaphors) might help us improve MOOC effectiveness, it’s probably appropriate to talk about how a sales attitude might answer another nagging question surrounding massive online classes: how to make money off of them. I’d like to kick off such a discussion with a confession. […]
Upcoming Events
Thanks to readers who stopped by to say Hi at last weekend’s MIT Sloane School event. And in an effort to do a better job communicating upcoming speaking engagements, here are a couple of Boston-based events I’ll be presenting at over the next few weeks. If anyone is planning to attend, stop by and say […]
MOOCs and the Engagement Funnel
I can understand the hesitancy of superimposing a metaphor like the sales funnel onto education, given that it tends to treat individual students as either objects or customers. But if we can get past the educator’s understandable distaste for applying terminology that originates from the world of business to the business of education, I think […]
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