Having spent the last week dodging moving trucks parked next to weepy parents, it looks as though the 2014-2015 academic year has officially commenced. With the new season, I plan to wrap up my Monday cost-of-college blog series shortly, although the experiment I’ve been running in the newsletter regarding how to pay for college seems […]
Learning by Doing
Well my break from blogging was not accompanied by a break from thinking about the subject of learning, especially that mix of real world and virtual learning experiences that might ultimately lead to a genuine rewriting of the rules of education. The first experience which triggered this line of thought came from a visit to […]
Dog Days
Well I’ve got some exciting news to report, as well as some updates on MOOCs, the cost of college, and that continuing analysis on how to afford to send your kids to school in the newsletter. But all of that is going to have to wait a couple of weeks as we enter the dog […]
More to Say About MOOCs
While the number of news outlets running stories on MOOCs is certainly lower today than it was a year ago, there is still plenty more to say about massive open learning. You can hear some of my thoughts in this segment that just ran on WGBH radio earlier today (and will run again this evening): They also […]
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis and the Cost of College – Continued
Last week, I began an attempt to reconcile two competing theories over why college costs as much as it does. One theory (the “Bennett Hypothesis”) holds that schools are responsible for the ever-inflating cost of tuition due to their readiness to suck up funds from any source (families, government grants, banks loans, etc.) through ever-escalating […]
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