MOOCs totally provide an educational experience equal to or better than traditional college classrooms: In January, San Jose State University made a big announcement: It had reached a deal with the startup Udacity to offer college classes for credit online, for a modest fee, not...
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As you may have heard, 8 Senators have come to an agreement on student loan rates that is blessed by the White House. On July 1, thanks to our dysfunctional.
In all the hubbub about the ridiculous salary CUNY wanted to pay David Petraeus to teach, we never thought to ask what kind of teacher he would be. The answer--he's.
I certainly have my critique of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a good history book, but it's power and importance can't be denied. And that's why Mitch Daniels wanted it banned from state universities when he was governor of Indiana....
Continuing with using this space as an opportunity to work out ideas of Oregon's Pay It Forward proposal for higher education, I offer two conflicting views of the idea. Dave.
The Oregon legislature has passed its Pay It Forward bill, which creates an alternative model for funding higher education by students agreeing to pay a percentage of their post-graduation income.
This one goes out to all of you who say that MOOCs are totally the equal of a real lecture class in terms of education quality: Michigan professor Gautam Kaul is teaching the Introduction to Finance MOOC on Coursera. In a July 2 email to...
I have a rather strong objection to the term "pay it forward" that is based entirely upon Kevin Spacey sabotaging his own career by starring in New Agey vehicle after.
While I'm glad that Senate Democrats are fighting for a better bill that would lower student loan interest rates, Obama really left them hanging out to dry after proposing tying.
There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s job was to cultivate this ground — imposing intellectual order upon it, educating the emotions...
Well, this is disturbing to anyone who cares about the future of higher education: On Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the online courses could increase access and keep costs.
Leon Wieseltier asks the right question in his graduation speech at Brandeis: "Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there.