Filter & Sort
Feminist Anti-MOOC
Can education be free and online and yet reject some of the choices made by proponents of massive open online courses? A class about to debut aims to show what's possible.
'Real Education'
Mark Edmundson's latest book is a battle cry to professors and students who want to preserve a "real education," increasingly under threat, he says.
Experimental College's First Graduate
Competency-based education takes a major step forward in its challenge to seat time as College for America awards its first degree.
Charting a Course
In report to faculty and students, UT president outlines principles for online education and asks for greater input from professors.
‘Majoring in a Professor’
Students select or reject majors based in large part on the quality of the first college instructor they have in the discipline, new research finds.
Opinion
Democratic Limits of "Customized"
It its industrial approach to efficiency, competency-based education shortchanges less-affluent student and contributes to stratification, Amy Slaton writes.
'What the Best Law Teachers Do'
Law education has been a bit beleaguered lately. A new book shows what's still right about legal education and where it needs to go.
Opinion
My Problem With MOOCs
In teaching, it's ultimately about the ability of a professor to make a personal, intellectual connection and force a student to think some more, writes Brent Chesley.