For those who follow the MOOC debate, every day is Armageddon:The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Professors-Corporate-University-Humanities/dp/0823228606] , “The Year of

When faced with a complex, fluid, and potentially uncontrollable situation, I’ve often heard people say, “It’s like herding cats.” I can think of no more complex, variable, and fluid task than

Every fall when I ask my first year students, “Why did you choose theCollege of Environmental Science and Forestry [http://www.esf.edu/]?” at least one will answer, “I want to save the

A MOOC is not a thing. A MOOC is a strategy. What we say about MOOCs cannot possibly contain their drama, banality, incessance, and proliferation. The MOOC is a variant beast — placental, emergent,

This sentence is a learning object. Wayne Hodgins, the “father of learning objects,” first came up with the idea for them while watching his son play with LEGOs. The basic notion is that

Coursera [http://www.coursera.org/]is silly. Educational technology news has been all a-flutter over the last few months about the work that Coursera is doing to bring higher education into the open.

MOOCs are a red herring. The MOOC didn’t appear last week, out of a void, vacuum-packed. The MOOC hasbeen around for years [http://mooc.ca/], biding its time. Still, the recent furor