tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post1858616915740474427..comments2024-03-12T14:31:50.264-07:00Comments on Bits and Pieces: Is the MOOC Bubble Bursting?Harry Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088418333536732728noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-80527591769076266962015-05-05T01:05:48.031-07:002015-05-05T01:05:48.031-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.mayazoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15424160001444581838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-3408339215749301272014-08-01T14:33:09.526-07:002014-08-01T14:33:09.526-07:00"I think that's false; those students nee..."I think that's false; those students need the teacher in the classroom working with them."<br /><br />President Napolitano needs to get out of her office and into some University of California classrooms., where many courses take the form of enormous lectures to hundreds of students followed, if the students are lucky, by smaller sessions with graduate school teaching assistants. Essentially no interaction during the lectures is possible. Is Napolitano suggesting that the lectures are ineffective? What's the difference between watching a professor spout as one of hundreds of students in a lecture hall and watching a recording of a professor online (allowing one to bit the pause and repeat button as often as one likes), followed by the same teaching assistant session? <br /><br />Napolitano's comment seems like fatuous condescension to the faculty.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03113599189242475927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-19871936202682299942014-08-01T10:24:37.633-07:002014-08-01T10:24:37.633-07:00Some worthwhile reading from the interweb:
Amy Bru...Some worthwhile reading from the interweb:<br />Amy Bruckman on post-hype issues with MOOCs: http://nextbison.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/talking-sense-about-moocs-and-online-education-the-new-post-hype-era/<br />Tressie McMillan Cottom on for-profit colleges admission strategies http://tressiemc.com/2013/03/08/how-admissions-works-differently-at-for-profit-colleges-sorting-and-signaling/<br />and on MOOCs and social capital etc http://tressiemc.com/2013/05/15/profit-highered-and-lessons-on-the-prestige-cartel/Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18066081924626392584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-86181268221147693502014-07-31T15:51:27.896-07:002014-07-31T15:51:27.896-07:00Yes, I am not surprised. What you say seems to sup...Yes, I am not surprised. What you say seems to support my conclusion: "that sounds to me more a problem of counseling and educating people to make sound decisions, than like the death of Eastman Kodak." To that I would add that there are probably people making money off the practice of putting young people lacking in "social capital" into 6 figures of debt, and the opportunists (schools and lenders both) should be reined in.Harry Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17088418333536732728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116442395849122822.post-5619277820396314072014-07-31T14:53:55.344-07:002014-07-31T14:53:55.344-07:00The problem is not that you matched means and medi...The problem is not that you matched means and medians, but that the poorest students with the least social capital and least access to decently-paying jobs, post-graduation, end up with the highest amount of student debt. Friends of mine were discussing their student debts recently, and they were all in the 6-figure range, with one person also having a child with mid-5 figures debt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com