Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Even in a MOOC, Students Want to Belong
Even in the austere and potentially lonely world of of the online course, students respond best when they feel they’re part of the family, new research finds.
Book Review: The War on Learning
In The War on Learning, Elizabeth Losh analyses recent trends in post-secondary education and the rhetoric around them. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies such as MOOCs, gaming subject matter and remixing pedagogy, writes Susan Marie Martin.
Technology: What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us Stronger
Gavin Moodie has looked at how printing first challenged then changed–for the better–higher education. Here he suggests more modern forms of technological advancement likely will result in the same.
MOOCS: Veni, Vidi, Meh!
David Glance argues that the university-shaking predictions once routinely made for massive open online courses have been borne out.
The Devil’s Bargain of Massive Online Learning
Technology may bring efficiencies to higher education, argues David Glance, but only if the expectations of both the suppliers and consumers fundamentally change.
Online vs. Online On Campus — What’s the Difference?
The line between studying online and studying on campus is increasingly blurry, argues tech thinker David Glance.
Liberal Arts: Still Valuable
Emory’s recent decision to shut down or suspend various academic departments and programs has rightly generated campus-wide and national attention.
