Learning

Coursera, MOOCs, and free …

Coursera

I’ve written before about how there are more options and changes within higher education for increased learning and accessibility.

At the forefront of these changes to higher education are MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses. These are courses offered by traditional university professors and …

Kids and the New …

fish scratch

In the horse and buggy era, being literate meant knowing how to read and write. Knowing how to interact with other humans was a basic step towards becoming a functioning member of society. However, since then the bar has been raised. Computers have now become so integrated into everything we do, …

The changing university: …

Virginia Tech drill field

College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain

While Twain’s tongue-in-cheek observation about the traditional college model held true in Mark Twain’s day–up until about ten years ago the …