We should not give up on the goal providing the high-value experience of seminars to every student. And I don’t think we have to.
Scaling the Seminar
In my recent first look at Engageli, I wrote about the importance of scaling the humanities seminar. The short version is that budget pressures will force universities to make cuts to programs that are the most costly to run. Since STEM programs tend to generate more grant money and social sciences programs can often teach […]
Engageli: First Look at a Zoom Educational Alternative
I’m impressed.
Digital Residential Education
The residential college experience is largely accidental. Can we make it more intentional in a way that captures the magic even at a physical distance?
Some Changes will be Permanent
Back in July, I wrote an uncharacteristically clickbait-y post about the possibility that Elon Musk’s Space-X Starlink might deliver rural broadband everywhere in North America this year. I got mocked a little, which I expected. It’s usually hard to separate the hype from the genuine revolutions. Well, here we are in October, and Starlink is […]
Reports of Higher Education’s Death Have Been Moderately Exaggerated
This crisis is survivable, but there will be pain, and there could easily be preventable institutional mortalities.
Online Learning Student Experience is the New Climbing Wall
Colleges that have traditionally differentiated themselves on their residential experience are going to need to seriously rethink…well…pretty much everything.