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Taxmom shines the  life-giving glow of her wisdom on MOOCs: …  I think the problem with online education is that learning a discpline is...

Overheard in the sauna at the gym: couple of old coots talking about the young athletes they'd met at Palookaville U.  From the sound...

  [D]on’t sleep with subordinates, don’t fly into fits of rage, beware of a former president conspiring with a board member to get his jo...

My friend Michael, who spends part of his life dealing with people who don't pay their student loans, turns a jaundiced eye on the wh...

A couple of my buds have been telling me I have to read the big NYT piece on sexism at the Harvard Business School.  I did read it, and d...

Boy, here's a name I haven't thought of much lately: John Silber, paladin of all that is good and great in American academic life; ...

Turn your back for a moment and they name a new president for the University of California.  Inside Higher Education (and others?) is treat...

The gang down at the law school spends a lot of time agonizing over "the Socratic method," or perhaps better "the dreaded So...

Professors like to complain about grading.  I can sympathize: it is a hard part of the job.  The scandalous secret is that it is the only ...

The other day I wrote a bit about what they do and do not teach in econ 1A . The Sapient Eb* offers an insight which itself invites a comm...

I see that the good folks at  Cour sera as their breakthrough in online education offering, a couple of courses from Antioch University in...

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You probably know this one already, but I just glommed onto a wrinkle in the college pricing game.   We all know (don't we?) that pri...

[Pardon the crude formatting, Blogger just isn't doing anything right this morning.]   Much blog chatter over the " Wacky ...

Antioch College in my day was famous as a den of free love and communism.  Or that was the public image; if there was any truth to it, nobo...

You want the real story?  Okay, here goes: Helen Dragas and her sidekick the ingenious Passepartout were hunkered down over a beer in the s...

Once again, what were they thinking at UVA, when they called up the President and said "oh by the way, you're fired"?  So far...

One of my bankruptcy buds ventures that maybe he knows the motive behind the firing of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan: sh...

§ 152. I have seen little girls exercise whole hours together and take abundance of pains to be expert at dibstones as they call it. Whils...

Pick of the day for me is the piece I find at The Atlantic 's website on what the folks at the University of Phoenix do when they wants...