I've just been reviewing some stuff about selective colleges,
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/what-makes-a-college-selective-and-why-it-matters/,
it turns out that going to a selective college makes a world of difference.
Interestingly, there are 2 selective colleges in New Mexico, 4
Owen, and all,
For me, the value of higher education is the bringing together of large
numbers of people who are in transition in their lives and exposing them to
a smaller number of people who have thought hard about important things.
It has never been clear to me how MOOC;s meet that goal.
If this had been circulated on April 1, I would have suspected it of
being a spoof, challenging the college administrators with the same kind
of job-performance/security threat that professors have been given by
MOOCs.
While I think this might be as inevitable as MOOCs, I think we will find
w
Your children's and grandchildren's college tuition is going up much faster
than inflation. One reason--not the only one, but one big one--is the
burgeoning class of administrators. The vice-presidents proliferate like those
of banks, and if you add in compliance officers of one kind and another
I'm a big fan of crowd-sourcing in principle... in practice I don't see
it working well nor often... but hope springs infernal.
I have tried both Signals (an app for mapping cell reception strength)
and a (now deleted from my phone) gas-price app. Both are map-based and
are *supposed* to supp
Well, for me at least, we had a near maximum amount of independence without
a lot of interference from administrators. I'm sure that varies widely,
but I enjoyed it. You can have the time or the money, and I've always
taken the time.
-tj
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
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It was always supposed MOOA would be a huge part of MOOC success, if indeed
it did succeed. Thanks for the pointer, very interesting indeed.
For example, Udacity and Coursera (and MITx) all agree that administration
cost reduction is a huge step towards the solution of cost of education.
I wish I
For those of us who have hung around universities for a while. (Tkx to
Joe Traub)
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/06/forget_moocslets_use_mooa.html
--tj
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I've been interested in "crowd sourcing" in apps for quite a while. Waze
apparently has a way to do that for traffic/gps/maps.
Has anyone used it? I'm curious how successful it is. Google is trying to
acquire it.
http://www.waze.com/
-- Owen
Congratulations.
Listen to Professor Bettencourt's lecture from Melanie Mitchell's MOOC:
Introduction to Complexity. By the way, the MOOC was pretty good, I enjoyed
so much and learned many things.
http://.complexityexplorer.org/online-courses/1/segments/269
Muchas felicidaes
2013/6/22 St
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