General Education reform has a long history in higher education of being a no-win zone. Correct that: in any given GenEd campaign there is often
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After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought
The latest swing of the MOOC headline pendulum is way over on the “complete bust” end of the evaluation spectrum but they represent a very
Six Hats and Better Meetings
Almost nobody likes meetings and almost everybody will agree that precious little ever seems to get accomplished in meetings. And yet we keep on having
King. 2013. "Restructuring the Social Sciences"
http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/king14.pdf King, Gary. In Press. Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Forthcoming PS: Political Science and Politics
On Getting Scooped : TEOTUAWKI*
They closed the comments on Mark Taylor’s OpEd “End the University as We Know It” before I could get one in, so I’m posting it
Majors and Departments
Why are something like 90% or more of our majors bound to departments and disciplines? Answer: lots of reasons, some of them good ones. But
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