Tag Archives: Alternative education
What does the university offer?
The answer is obvious: courses. But you can get courses anywhere. I’ve written about this before (Dealing Out the Uni), but Jim Groom’s effort to get a new server for his course via Kickstarter has me thinking again. Earlier this week, in the context of discussing what the traditional university provided that crowdsourced and open […]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged badges, diploma, Donna Haraway, Edward Tufte, European Graduate School, faculty, Graduate School, Howard Rheingold, Jacques Derrida, Jim Groom, John Waters, MIT, open, open education, open educational resources, p2pu, Peter Greenaway, Philosophical skepticism, professor, Stanford, transcript, university 2 Comments
Rank Teacher Ranking
There has been a little discussion on an informal email list at my university about the Op-Ed by Bill Gates in the New York Times that argues against public rankings of teachers. It’s a position that in some ways constrains the Gates Foundation’s seeming interest in quantifying teaching performance. It led to questions we have […]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged assessment, Bill Gates, education, Education reform, Educational philosophy, Educational psychology, Gates Foundation, higher education, measurement, merit, Teacher, Teaching, the New York Times 1 Comment
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, […]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged Council of Independent Colleges, Criticism of college and university rankings, Eleanor Duckworth, General, good teacher, intercollegiate sports programs, Ivy League, mid-career professor, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Pragmatists, professor, Teaching, University administration 3 Comments
Massifying Higher Learning