May 2013
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Community College Is the Disruptor That Is Here Today
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 tome, by Clayton Christensen in the mid-90s. And it’s definition hinges on a set of Continue reading
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Distributed Flips, Pacing, and MOOCs as OCW
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 Bunker Hill class moves slowly, taking two weeks on each week of M.I.T. material. MassBay, Continue reading