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Fascinating report out on recent enrollment trends from creepily-named National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Could be the subject of twenty different posts, so much in it is riveting. This is my takeaway, though, because it is so dramatic: Yes, we’re … Continue reading →

Finally read this detailed rumination by Stephen Downes on the question of MOOCs and quality — what would it mean to call a traditional cMOOC “good” as opposed to “bad”, especially in an environment where individual purpose for engaging in … Continue reading →

While the SJSU situation keeps on boiling, it’s worth pulling back the camera a bit and seeing the larger scene. This comes out of the history section of a run-of-the-mill press release Pearson released today: California’s state university system, the … Continue reading →

Found this interesting: No less important, Americans spend a far higher proportion of their national wealth on higher education than the British. According to the OECD, the UK spends 1.3 per cent of GDP on tertiary education, precisely the EU … Continue reading →

The damage that Coursera, EdX, Udacity and others have done to a decade of open education progress becomes more apparent by the day. In today’s installment, the kettle at SJSU comes to a full boil, with the faculty association there … Continue reading →

Stephen Downes had mentioned in a post a while back that the “distributed flip, advanced as this Great New Thing, is the connectivist model of MOOCs, but with small-group in-person attached..” The shift to the term was portrayed as part … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to write this post since February, and each time it spirals out of control. So here’s an attempt to barrel through and tell it plain. “Disruptive Technology” used to mean something. It’s actually defined, in a book-length … Continue reading →

Article in the NY Times today, detailing more distributed flips. What I find interesting is this paragraph: The blended course, teaching Python computer programming, is being tried at both Bunker Hill and MassBay Community College, but at different paces. The … Continue reading →

I’ve been really curious about how much (and in what way) xMOOC students use forums.    And I can’t find any good data on it. Not even a “per capita visits to forum” number. This is pretty suboptimal for the … Continue reading →

I’ve known (ever since my own short stint in higher education marketing) that the demographics of the U.S. are a bit dismal from here on out. The situation, which I’ve jokingly referred to as “Peak Demo”, is that most growth … Continue reading →