Textbook troubles
A link from a reader: “‘Required reading’: As textbook prices soar, students try to cope”.
All posts tagged with online education
Quote: Stephen Downes on the value of open courses
Stephen Downes, widely recognized as one of the original inventors of the “MOOC” concept, on why courses should be open: “MOOC - The Resurgence of Community ...
MOOCs and disabilities
The Coursera blog today relates a remarkable story: “Not Impossible: The Story of Daniel, a 17 Year Old with Severe Autism & His 6 Completed Coursera Cou...
My open letter to SJSU Philosophy
On Thursday, the Philosophy department of San José State University released an open letter to Michael Sandel, instructor of a Harvard edX MOOC. I reacted to...
Lessons in social justice from MOOCs
The Philosophy department at San Jose State University have written an open letter to Michael Sandel, a Harvard teacher of government and lauded lecturer. Wh...
Paleofuture radio MOOCs
The Chronicle of Higher Ed takes us to a time in the past, when massive radio correspondence courses were the wave of the future, including at my alma mater,...
Student attention spans are variable
There is much discussion in online education about the “15-minute rule”: that content longer than 15 minutes will lose students’ attention. Part of this is b...
Paths through MOOCs
I’ve been doing a lot of tracking of massive open online courses, including enrolling in several of them, as research for my upcoming course, “Human Evolutio...
Are MOOCs technical or practical?
All the NY Times columnists will be writing about MOOCs before long, I suspect. Today it was David Brooks’ turn: “The Practical University”. His argument is ...
California's online imposition
This is big education news, from the California legislature: “Measure Seeks Campus Credit For Web Study”.