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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MOOCs: Room for Criticism
One of the things I’ve enjoyed most about plunging into the MOOC phenom is the willingness of those involved with it to listen to news both good and bad – both praise and criticism – with an open mind. You have to understand that this experience is rather new, having worked in or with a […]
MOOCs and the Global Classroom
While the opportunities, challenges and controversies surrounding MOOCs inside the classroom discussed yesterday are very real, there’s one part of the educational multiverse that views new, free, high-quality online courses as entirely upside: international universities (especially those in the third world). Like their US counterparts, prestigious centers of higher education in places like Europe are […]
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