Not of General Interest

Nicholas Lemann in The New Yorker on MOOCs, with my comments: Now that we know that either Obama or Romney will be President next year, we...

Rachel Toor's article " Bad Brain Days " gives just about the right level of encouragement. You should go and read it, but the...

Don, help me out here; I need to get this thing written.  Don Draper via Henry V speech from  Evangeline Morphos at WSJ : This day is ...

Maybe Facebook should hire Thomas Friedman to do its ads. His ad for Coursera ( h/t Indyanna's comment at Historiann's ) column on ...

At the Chronicle, Katrina Gulliver has written the  "10 Commandments of Twitter" for those who want to break into this medium. Mos...

 . . . or not. It is summer, but it is academic summer, which means as much gearing up to write as the winding down of classes. Time to take...

[Edited to add: As Joshua Kim points out at IHE , Brooks doesn't differentiate between MOOCs and regular online courses.] Those questi...

It's getting hard to tell the MOOC players without a scorecard, so here's a scorecard or maybe a bingo card. I'd tag this with t...

Yes, indeed--I've spent the whole day wondering things like "Why are the trash trucks coming around on Tuesday?" and only ju...

Dr. Crazy's recent posts about the changing nature of her blog and whether it has jumped the shark inspired a whole lot of people, blog...

Over at Hacked Education, there's another familiar "new! revolutionary!" idea about how the consummate evil known as "the...

The interwebs are in an uproar over the latest annual software competition for machine-scoring essays. See, for example, Jonathan Rees'...

After a hardworking but very discouraging week, I just don't want to think about academics. Here instead are some observations on this s...

Nicole and Maggie have  a good post that is wonderful food for fantasy if you're tired of thinking about academe: What would you do if y...

Profacero's post about "You Are My Sunshine"   made me think about "traditional American songs"--you know, the kin...

Inside Higher Ed tells me that today is a #dayofhighered, which seems to mean writing a post about what we do all day, given that highly pai...

Dean Dad has a post up about an article at CHE about New Charter University , which offers courses on a new model. The model is sort of li...

The article in the Washington Post : where to begin? My first thought was "Is this WaPo or the Wall Street Journal, which regularly ...

If you are tired of posts about writing: click away, nothing to see here. Some of these are maxims that I've tried to follow, but recent...

Margaret Soltan at University Diaries has been posting a lot lately about her participation in The Faculty Project , which seems to be part...