Am I Feeling Frustrated? You Betcha
By 1970, almost everyone who had worked to create “programmed instruction” during the 1950s and 1960s had moved away from the idea of teaching machines as the centerpiece of education. These tools,...
View ArticleThe Future That Is Already Here Isn’t Much of a Future
Here is the weekly newsletter from Education Dive, which focuses largely on digital innovations in higher education: The first article somewhat blithely acknowledges that “instructor availability” is...
View ArticleComputers May Be an Obstacle to Learning
A recent international study has thrown a bucket of cold water on the heated frenzy for computer-assisted and online education. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which...
View ArticleEducation Reform Humbuggery
Kevin Carey, writing in The New York Times last July, said this of American colleges and universities: “These organizations are not coherent academic enterprises with consistent standards of classroom...
View ArticleASU’s Global Freshman Academy Is a Complete Bust. Is Anyone Actually Surprised?
Education Dive [http://www.educationdive.com/] is a very good source of news about innovations and initiatives in digital education, but it does have a very pronounced bias in favor of the pedagogical...
View Article“How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours?”
BY JONATHAN REES I wouldn’t normally post here in order to send you somewhere else, but in the is case I’m going to make an exception. In an earlier form, this article at Hybrid Pedagogy was the paper...
View ArticleA Bad Idea That Doesn’t Get Better by Analogy
BY MARTIN KICH In “The Path to Debt Free College: More School Choice,” an article written for U.S. News and World Report, Wesley Coopersmith argues that “to solve the debt crisis in higher education,...
View ArticleUniversities and Surveillance Capitalism
BY PAUL-OLIVIER DEHAYE Guest blogger Paul-Olivier Dehaye is a former assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Zurich. Surveillance capitalism, described by Shoshana Zuboff, is the logic...
View ArticleCould the Reanimation of the MOOC Be at Hand?
BY AARON BARLOW When I was in Peace Corps in West Africa, I could always tell where the butcher’s stand was by the vultures circling overhead. Today, I am seeing similar carrion feeders, ones hoping...
View ArticleYour Course Is Still Yours, Even During a Pandemic
BY JONATHAN REES Guest blogger Jonathan Rees teaches at Colorado State University-Pueblo Do you remember Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs)? 2012 was supposedly the “Year of the MOOC” because...
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