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
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Evaluating and Assessing Short Intensive Courses
Two articles on the topic of assessing and evaluating short, intensive courses. Most of the results appear positive in terms of learning outcomes, but there
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
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
