Faculty of Language

I was reading the latest (February 9/2017) issue of the NYR and the lead article is a review of The revenge of the analog  (by David Sax). T...

Remember MOOCs? They were supposed to be the next big new thing? Well, it seems that they are starting to run out of steam, at least in some...

When MOOCs first came to the scene I expressed skepticism about their ultimate value for teaching and their capacity to really reduce costs ...

Here 's another essay investigating the MOOC issue and its relation to education. There are two points. First, that lots of what is inte...

So, I have long been skeptical that MOOCs had the messianic potential its supporters have claimed on its behalf. To a grizzled skeptic comme...

I have been somewhat skeptical that MOOCs are the world changing innovations that supporters have supposed them to be. I have tended to rega...

The discussion on MOOCs is heating up. There is an issue of the Boston Review dedicated to the topic.  The five papers (...

Sorry for the earlier bad link. Thanks to Marc for mentioning it to me. I think it is now fixed. Here is a link to a more elaborate discu...

A recent issue of Scientific American reprints a story from Nature ( here ) by Mitchell Waldrop (who wrote a nice book o...