The first two chapters in the MOOC story have been written: heroic arrival and unbounded enthusiasm followed by disappointment and backlash. I argued in Fall
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Takacs and Chambliss on "Systemic Advising"
Chris Takacs and Dan Chambliss are the authors of the forthcoming How College Works (Harvard, February 2014). Their work is based on an eight year
Teaching Unprepared Students: The Importance of Increasing Relevance
“Whether students arrive in your classroom underprepared (that is, their high school educational experience did not prepare them for the rigors of college work) or
Entrepreneurship at Liberal Arts Colleges
From the Boston Globe… With no grades or majors, Hampshire College, the Amherst institution with an alternative approach to higher education, seems an unlikely
Online Learning and Liberal Arts Colleges
From Inside Higher Ed June 29, 2012 By Steve Kolowich Online learning is no longer foreign to traditional universities, where courses formerly held in large
