Skepticism Abounds: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology (Inside Higher Ed)
Online education arguably came of age in the last year, with the explosion of massive open online courses driving the public's (and politicians') interest in digitally delivered courses and contributing to the perception that they represent not only higher education's future, but its present.
Faculty members, by and large, still aren't buying – and they are particularly skeptical about the value of MOOCs, Inside Higher Ed's new Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology suggests....
The Two Cultures of Educational Reform By STANLEY FISH (New York Times)
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Or, in other words, we’re probably measuring the wrong things and the right things are not amenable to measurement. If this is true and it is also true that the culture of measurement is in the ascendancy, we might expect that things that resist measurement — quality, poetry, insight — would be dismissed and set aside, on the reasoning that if it can’t be measured, what good is it? A new technology typically turns its limitations into a mechanism of evaluation and consigns phenomena outside its capacities to the margins, not merely to its margins but to the margins of what is generally significant and worth worrying about….
Obama Plan to Tie Student Aid to College Ratings Draws Mixed Reviews (Chronicle of Higher Education)
4 Key Ideas in Obama's Plan to Control College Costs Bear Familiar Fingerprints (Chronicle of Higher Education)
