By Matt Zalaznick. Students will get several courses-worth of instruction in computer science, logistics.
Participants in MIT’s about-to-launch “XSeries” MOOCs on computer science will get about three courses-worth of instruction that should give them a strong jump start on future studies or prepare them for a summer internship, senior lecturer Chris Terman says. More...
By Marcelo Knobel. Brazil has the world's 7th largest Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with a population of around 195 million inhabitants, distributed in 27 states (more than five thousand cities). The country has a peculiar higher education system, with a relatively small number of public research universities and a large number of private institutions, both philanthropic and for-profit. Although the system has been growing substantially in the last 15 years, the number of young people attending the university has not exceeded 14% of the 18-25 age cohort eligible to pursue university level study. Approximately 6 million students attend a higher education institution in Brazil— 75% of these students are enrolled in private institutions (approximately half of them are for-profit institutions). Read more...
By Dayna Catropa. Last week’s posthighlighted the importance of looking beyond the average when making data-driven decisions. Often analyzing other data points and performing additional analysis can paint a more accurate picture of an issue. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Remember when academic freedom was mostly about faculty and administration? When the goal was to convince pinheaded administrators to leave faculty alone to pursue truth as they saw fit?
The world has changed.
In olden times -- I’m thinking basically pre-2008 or so -- it was relatively difficult for a professor to get in trouble in the press for what she said or did in class. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I’ve seen a lot of promising projects start out with lots of energy and then falter as entropy set in. I’ve seen projects scramble because soft money has run out and no continuing revenue stream has appeared (even if ongoing support was promised in the grant proposal). I’ve seen even more projects halted before they could get off the ground because they lacked a “sustainability plan” or "business model" that satisfied someone whose permission was needed. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Almost exactly two years ago I asked how much would you pay Amazon each month to have unlimited access to any Kindle book at at any time?
My answer was $1 dollar a day.
What would you answer?
Now Oysterhas come along saying that they will do the same thing for $10 a month. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I'm fine with Apple taking my money.
Really, I'm okay with being locked into the Apple ecosystem.
What I can no longer abide is how Apple seems to be robbing me of all self-respect.
I'm not talking about Apple products. I'm typing this blog post on my beloved MacBook Air. All day long I've showered affection on my iPhone. Tonight I'll use my iPad mini to do some reading, maybe watch a bit of video. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I'm looking for a do it yourself streaming solution. Hoping that you help.
The volume of live streaming that we need to do in my little online/blended program has surprised me.
It seems that the ability to stream events, and to do so independently without contracting with the central IT organization, is quickly becoming a reality. Where live streaming was once a highly technical task, involving dedicated units and technical magicians, it is now evolving into a normal part of our everyday education business. Streaming is the new web conferencing, a do-it-yourself operation that everyone needs to know how to do. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. Last month I got a tour of the offices of a campus computing unit.
While walking around the computing offices, and meeting some of the professional technology staff, some questions kept nagging at the back of my brain.
By Joshua Kim. Like many of you, I've been trying to get my head around the announcement that edX and Google are entering into a partnership.
How big a deal is this partnership for higher ed?
I had the opportunity to chat with edX's marketing and communications team, and I think that I have some idea why the edX / Google partnership is important news. Read more...
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