by andflywrite | Feb 22, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Story from Salon by Andrew Leonard. Same guy who did earlier story that online wouldn’t ruin education. More about him below. But says here that he’s realized now that this revolution is different than music online because politics is involved. Politics is...
by gary575 | Feb 20, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
How is this for a stunner – the head of CalTech is off to Saudi Arabia to head a new school on the Red Sea (co-ed if you can imagine). Â The details are from the LA Times article. The new Tech University has an initial funding of $10 Billion which may give it...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
And finally on the making current of reposts for today, there’s this from July 21 2012…. …..back when Coursera was news just because it existed…not because it had just gotten an arrangement whereby some students at some colleges would be...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Another last July 2012 story from NYTimes saved as pdf here. Just in the spirit of today’s posts on how fast things are, and have been, and will be, changing…the “higher ed crisis” as our tag has it. And my description from that post: This is...
by andflywrite | Feb 16, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER, GO AHEAD CALLER
http://goo.gl/e4zUX This link is from May 6 2012 NYT, and may be difficult for non NYT subscribers to access. It’s a series of pages, so really not easy to copy and paste here. Also, this may be a post Kris gets to from her end of the railroad…but I found...
