Monthly Archives: May 2012

An addendum to the last post. First off, since no one is going to move off the term MOOC for MANIC, here’s a replacement term: MACCs: MAssively Connected Courses.  The point here is to indicate the people that have co-opted … Continue reading →

Hoisted from the defunct Tran|Script blog. Originally published August 11, 2011. New projects need prototypes. When twitter first came out, people often asked me what it was. And to the extent I told them it was an entirely new thing … Continue reading →

Martin Snyder of the AAUP said something about Coursera-style MOOCs I agree with recently:  “If this kind of a system takes off, you might have a situation where the very wealthy students go to a campus to interact with real professors, … Continue reading →

I don’t know what it is about college cost reporting, but it either attracts shoddy reporters, or makes good reporters shoddy. Take the recent piece by Andrew Martin and Andrew Lehren. Here’s a paragraph that actually appeared in it: Ninety-four … Continue reading →

This was first picked up (to my knowledge) by Matt Yglesias over at Moneybox. Peter Thiel’s company is looking to hire an Investment Analyst, and whoever writes up the job descriptions over there has specified that the ideal candidate will … Continue reading →

“Recent research suggests that before delving into educating students about statistical methods, statistical literacy, thinking, and reasoning training is needed. In fact, studies have shown that a knowledge base in statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking is needed for understanding published … Continue reading →

This article makes some excellent points about “Pineapplegate”. On the whole the incident reflects more poorly on our media and public debate than it does on Pearson.  There’s so much wrong with the way that we test students in American … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about this a long time, but a recent tweet by @dkernohan made me think I should throw it up somewhere. There’s a saying that if you are not paying for something like Facebook, that you aren’t the … Continue reading →