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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
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