Study documents and quantifies what we’ve known all along: face-to-face...
In-person, live instruction and class meetings offer superior results to students than online courses. It’s true! And you no longer have to listen to fuddy-duddy old proffies like me, who have been...
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Thursday round-up: the hang together or hang separately edition
Friends! Angelenos! Countrywomen! I’ve been in SoCA so long you probably thought I had traded in my cowgirl boots for flip-flops permanently. No way! Never fear. You can take the cowgirl out of...
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Maybe not the “dumbest generation?”
Mark Bauerlein, a not-that-old fogy at an elite university, wrote something cranky about the practice of higher education in the New York Times last weekend. The column has been subjected to a ritual...
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Everything Changes, part III
Everything changes, nothing perishes: or so we hope. Historians and other humanists who work with historical documents: Run, don’t amble, over to WNYC’s On the Media and listen to this week’s program,...
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Great prediction, Carnac: a brief history of the future of online education
One of the great things about blogging for the better part of a decade is that you can hold people accountable for the silly things they once said, or wrote, and presumably believed. Do you remember...
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A (Bull$!t) Mountain of Magical Thinking
You know those old stories in which a reporter for the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune drops in on the MLA’s (Modern Language Association) or the AHA’s (American Historical Association) annual...
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Who do faculty “work for?”
UPDATED BELOW, Sunday afternoon. Who do college and university faculty work for? Do we work for our students? Do we work for the administrators at our institutions? If we work at public universities,...
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WIZ 301: Defense Against the Dark Arts, or, how universal design improves our...
Dump the blue books! The always-thoughtful David Perry of How Did We Get Into This Mess and on Twitter @Lollardfish) has given his last blue-book, in class, timed exam. Those of you who know his...
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“An Election All About Sex & Gender.” Who ever would have predicted this?
What a surprise! Who among us ever would have forseen this? I’m not mocking Rebecca Traister; I truly appreciate her analysis this year and am glad she’s finally getting the teevee time she and...
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We called it: MOOCs are dead as uni disruptors, but follow the money
Jonathan Rees has a brilliant postmortem of the MOOC phenomenon and its rapid, silent demise over the past few years. He writes: MOOCs are dead. “How can I possibly argue that MOOCs are dead?,” you...
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