MOOC-WHIPPED

For the last two days UD has been in Washington DC, at a high-level gathering of federal government, Gates Foundation, and university people, all of whom convened to talk about how to use online technology to improve education for American students, from elementary to graduate school.
The meeting took place in a gorgeous multilevel hotel where grand pianos hovered over shallow pools and jazz with a perk up! beat filled the air.
It was the sort of place that lifts your game.  Everyone looked sharp, bright, perked up.
Four other groups met at the same time among the immense soft-lit halls of the lower level.  Behind the walls of the halls, immense Ladies' Rooms went on and on in the half-light, their vast handicapped stalls beckoning. Outside the Ladies', buffets appeared everywhere, and these also went on and on, spicing the atmosphere with cinnamon teas. Read more...