Academics are distressed at the thought that Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, could do to them what the internet has done to newspaper reporters.
Monthly Archives For September 2013
Wrong Way on Schools
“We put way too much emphasis on how many years of school students have rather than what they’re learning.”
— Isabel V. Sawhill, Brookings Institution economist in remarks there on September 12, 2013.
Wrong Way on Remediation
The 50 percent remediation rate in colleges is often cited by critics of public schools, including Accuracy in Academia, as evidence of the failure of these elementary and secondary schools.
Where Supervisors Outnumber Staff
At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, there are “380 unique departments and almost 200 supervisors who managed a single employee.”— Tulane University economist Douglas Harris.
NC “Scholars” Assail GOP
At one of the recent meetings, some of them “openly bragged about their arrests, fights with cops, and the help with legal entanglements they’ve received from the NAACP. More than 900 arrests have occurred since the protests launched in April.”
Kansas Journalism Professor Placed on Leave After Anti-NRA Tweet
University of Kansas journalism professor David Guth was placed on administrative leave after his anti-NRA tweet on gun control in response to the Navy Yard shooting in Washington, D.C. last week.
Make Way for MOOCs
The progress and advancement of MOOC’s show that higher education must adjust.
Howard Zinn’s Greatest Hits
Although the air temperature may be falling, the leftist rhetoric is heating up on our college campuses again.
Losing Ground to MOOCs
Academia is fighting Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs and losing.
Brave New World 2013
Aldous Huxley call your office.