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The Ostrich and the Trend
A recent blog post was wrong about massive open online courses, Arshad Ahmad and Barbara Oakley write. MOOCs aren't the promised panacea, but they are neither dangerous nor dead.
What Do I Tell My Conservative Student?
A professor considers how he should advise such a student applying to Ph.D. programs in a STEM field.
Words Out of Order
Scott McLemee highlights a half dozen catchphrases that have significantly overstayed their welcome.
Openness and the Decline of the Textbook Author
The emerging model of openly licensed educational content makes pedagogical as well as financial sense for today’s higher education market, fostering inclusivity and knocking down the wall between writer and reader, writes Brian Jacobs.
The Students the Lists Leave Out
The emphasis on the uniqueness of each incoming class in annual lists of student worldviews perpetuates the assumption that the college population is mainly composed of recent high school graduates, writes Hollis Phelps.
Ethical College Admissions: Rankings as Fake News
Jim Jump considers the flaws of U.S. News rankings.
Another Look at Equity Issues
Don Hossler, Jerry Lucido and Emily Chung consider legacy preferences, early decision and other issues and draw attention to a key fact: the limited number of slots at elite institutions.
Public Engagement Is a Two-Way Street
Claiming that academics are failing to engage with the general public is intellectual laziness at best and anti-intellectual posturing at worst, argues Adam Kotsko.