Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Tweet Thoreau at High Clearing has been going on for some time about MOOCs and why he thinks they are a failing fad. He proposes a new buzzword, Hight-Touch Engagements, e.g. small classes, Online tools won’t go anywhere* (despite my bitching, I use a few of them to supplement my evil in-person class, I just don’t go around preaching that I’m saving the world with some new religion), but in a few years the fad will switch from sending everybody to college on their sofa with an LCD to some sort of opposite extreme.
John Mashey said… A definition of small government:when *your* state is in trouble from disaster, Federal help would be wasteful, but when it’s my state, it’s different.May we should do this differently.1) States can either opt in or out of Federal or regional disaster aid, and if opt in, pay for it, i.e., to spread the risk
View article: The "doing something that’s short of everything is nothing" fallacy
Originally posted here: A message from the recovery room
david lewis said… Hadfield is walking the line, speaking as a diplomat. If you think his quote is distorted, here is the full article
and the dreaded Disputed Suffice it to say, they were strongly in line with what Cook, et al, have come up with, but not nearly so well done. Also those early bunnies were querulous, something that Eli has never, never been accused of. Now some, not Eli to be sure, have been trying to trash Cook, et al., which has just been published as open access, even before it appeared. The recursive fury has been something to see