Now, I am not a big fan of Google and believe much of what passes as innovation in the consumer IT sector is empty bells and whistles. But there is something to be said for the impact that the continual reinvention of business models has on the rest of us. The Wall Street Journal has […]
Over at Inside Higher Ed, University of Prince Edward Island graduate student Bonnie Stewart weighs in on the affect that massive online open courses (MOOCs) like MITx will have on higher education: Too often, MOOCs – particularly the emergent big-name university offerings that have essentially harnessed the capacity of open online learning and scaled it […]
This week, Bill Keller had a piece in the New York Times dealing with the topic. Among the initiatives he focused on was that of Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, who is offering his artificial intelligence course on-line absolutely free. Thrun’s ultimate mission is a virtual university in which the best professors broadcast their lectures to […]
