Hack (Higher) Education
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
How new technologies can hack [higher] education, and how learners of all sorts can hack technology back.
October 15, 2012 - 8:32pm
Some thoughts on the recent Gawker article "outing" the identity of "the biggest troll on the Web." Should we name names of the trolls in academia? To what end?
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October 3, 2012 - 2:03pm
A new startup launches today to help make it easier for professors to create digital course packets for their students.
September 27, 2012 - 10:19pm
Degreed, a startup that promises to “jailbreak the transcript” launched into beta this week. Degreed asks users to list what formal and informal education they’ve pursued — what college did you attend, what major were you, what badges have you earned — and calculates an equivalency score in certain topics. That means that even if you never completed your bachelor’s or associate’s degree, Degreed will vouch for both your credit hours (ish) and your mastery skills (ish).
September 19, 2012 - 3:25pm
Everyone’s jumping on the MOOC bandwagon, it seems, with the announcement today of 17 more universities partnering with Coursera. But why the rush when it seems clear that these online experiments are just that -- experimental? Certainly universities see this as a marketing opportunity. I argue that it’s also “FOMO” -- the fear of missing out.
September 17, 2012 - 5:13pm
Google’s Summer of Code program gives college students hands-on experience (and a small stipend for) working on open source projects. I interviewed Eamon Ford, a junior at the University of Chicago, about his experiences with the program and why it offers a unique professional learning opportunity.
