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The Hijacking of MOOCs
A worthy concept has been degraded and is not nearly as open or online or oriented on educational goals as were its first iterations, writes Kevin Bell.
Trauma, Teaching and Tamerlan
Wick Sloane, a one-time Boston Marathoner, reflects on a surprise on a 2007 class list.
Diversity Then and Now
Gretchel Hathaway considers the evolution of campus moves to be more inclusive, and the officials who lead such efforts.
'Appropriate' Technology
So much talk about using technology to increase student completion aims to change the nature of instruction. Let's instead focus on using technology to let the instructors teach more, writes Brian Parish.
Crunching Literature
Machines are "reading" novels that literary historians would otherwise never get to. Scott McLemee considers the results and prospects of "Macroanalysis."
Humanities, Not Harvard
Disciplines that are under siege would do well to reject the models for their fields that were created by elite universities and that scare off students and the public, write Chris Buczinsky and Robert Frodeman.
MOOCs, History and Context
Massive open online courses might only be a footnote in the evolution of higher education, but they reflect a revolution that is taking place regardless of whether they succeed, writes Arthur Levine.