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Three videos.
My friend Al Jacobs played these three videos for our TAH teacher colloquium this afternoon. They are all well worth your time. For instructions on how you can borrow them for classroom use, click here.
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“Time has come today.”
I think it was Dan Allosso who tipped me off to the existence of Khan Academy. At Khan Academy, you see, the time (for homework) has come today. Not tonight. Today. Their big innovation it seems is...
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Will college professors go the way of the milkman?
I have been a Natalie Merchant fan since I first saw 10,000 Maniacs in college. In the old days, when I still went to concerts, I saw them more often than I did any other band (even after their shows...
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An Elvis analogy.
In her year-end post, our pal Kate mentions my fondness for historical analogies. Her historical analogy in that post is union musicians protesting their replacement in movie theaters by pre-recorded...
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“1, 2, 3, 4…Can I have a little more?”
Why do business professors generally make more money than history professors? The answer, trying to be fair about it, is that business professors have non-academic alternatives. That means that...
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“Will you still need me, will you still feed me…?”
As a matter of fact, I do take requests. This one‘s for you, Phil: The Hewlett Foundation is sponsoring a competition: the goal is for somebody on the Kaggle platform to get as close as possible to...
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“But if you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.”
“People are all over this idea lately,” writes Paul Graham about the idea of replacing universities with technological utopias of an undetermined nature: “I think they’re onto something. I’m reluctant...
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“Don’t go for second best, baby.”
Yeah, I’m really going to blog about Madonna and I’m going to make it relevant too. First, however, let’s start firmly within the usual subject matter for this space. Peter Cohan writes about edX in...
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Out of grad school, money spent. See no future, pay no rent.
I blame Phil Hill for getting me to read this rant by Mark Cuban: Its far too easy to borrow money for college. Did you know that there is more outstanding debt for student loans than there is for...
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Mean Mr. Market.
Why does everyone seem to think I’m anti-capitalist these days? Robert Bromber made that assumption last week. So did Jeremy on Friday. Believe it or not, I am not a socialist (not that there’s...
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In which higher education eats everything (including itself).
I have another stop on the “Down With MOOCs” World Tour on Wednesday. Thanks to my friend Dean Saitta, I got invited to address the University of Denver’s Strategic Issues Panel on the Future of...
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“Video killed the radio star.”
As you might imagine, I’ve been reading a lot of insufferable technological determinism aimed in my direction ever since that Slate article came out. Of course, there’s been, “How dare you resist...
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“Piggy in the Middle.”
“[Frederick] Taylor and [his protégé Carl] Barth interpreted their responsibility as that of introducing certain technological and administrative changes at Watertown Arsenal. In fact they were doing...
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Let it be.
I was reading yet another great Christopher Newfield post at Remaking the University last week when I came upon this startling survey result: A solid majority of college presidents agree with 2/3rds...
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The MOOC don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles.
“If you look at sub-Saharan Africa, the place where education is hardest to achieve – in the Western world, 70 percent of the students of college age are enrolled in either a two-year or a four-year...
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Higher education is not available à la carte.
Perhaps you saw this piece of clickbait from NPR’s Planet Money team last week? It’s called, “Duke: $60,000 A Year For College Is Actually A Discount” and it follows a familiar format: some people say...
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“You never give me your money.”
When is a business not a business? When it’s in the edtech business! How do I know? This quote from the new Coursera CEO, former Yale President Richard Levin talking to the Chronicle is typical of a...
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