Mike Caulfield
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Longitudinal Quintiles by Percentage
Decent graph from NYT showing quintiles over time, in this case, the declining portion of government benefits the poorest 20% of the population receives. These sorts of graphs are very in right now, as the format is perfect for showing change of distribution over time, and so much of our political discourse is dealing with… Continue reading
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Preface to Making Fair Comparisons
Making some progress on the Making Fair Comparisons textbook. The preface is below. One thing I’ve learned from reading cheesy self-help books: If you believe a skill will change a person’s life, you should say it. At the end of the book, the reader will know if their life is changed or not. There’s time to be… Continue reading
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Dan Meyer on How to Rewrite Textbook Math Problems
I’m writing a intro stats book right now (a small one for students). This lecture really brings home the problem of the “garden path” solution, and how small changes in presentation could make a big difference. Continue reading
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Comparing Election Spending
Everyone knows that campaign spending is out of control, right? Except it’s not. In raw numbers, of course, the amount just keeps getting bigger, but controlled for inflation, it’s exactly what you would expect, and no more expensive than it was at the turn of the century, as the graph above from Mother Jones shows.… Continue reading
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Liberal Arts and Transfer
In a Moneybox post I mostly agree with, Matt Yglesias says this: In order to do well in courses on 19th Century British Literature or Social Anthropology or Philosophy or American History in a properly running American college, what you need to do is get pretty good at reading and writing documents in the English… Continue reading
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Hello world!
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Share Bigger Things
(hoisted from the archives) Integration is hard, and it’s harder when you didn’t build the pieces yourself. Lately I’ve been trying to push people to think bigger about the sharing of OER, precisely because integration sucks. What do I mean? Well, your slides would be a lot easier for me to use if I had… Continue reading
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Health Care and Education
When thinking about Higher Education, I find thinking about health care as a parallel instructive. Consumers don’t know always know what’s best for them in health care — studies show that they’ll rate inept doctors who are nice to them and give them what they ask for much better than doctors who actually cure them.… Continue reading
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In Praise of Factory Education
Yes, I know the title is a bit #slatepitches. But I really mean it. As some of you know, I work at the same college I graduated from almost 20 years ago. I did a lot of stuff in between, but I ended up back here, in part because I really believe in state provided… Continue reading
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Sharing, Reuse, and Frameworks
(hoisted from the archives) When it comes to OER, sharing, in general, is not the problem. Reuse is the problem. Anyone who has been working in the Open Education space for any length of time knows this, so I won’t go into it too deeply. But the key to everything is reuse, at least reuse… Continue reading
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