The government starts an incubator UC Professor gets a call: “Our country needs you.” … Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business“Part of the NSF charter is to commercialize the best of the science and engineering research we fund. We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad[...]
Posts Tagged ‘online education’
January 16th, 2012 - 7:35 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
BERKELEY BLOG: UC and NSF Teach Scientists How to Launch a Business
January 4th, 2012 - 3:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Berkely Blog: Faculty Struggling to Preserve The Promise
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, anthropology professor UC WHY BERKELEY FACULTY WENT ON STRIKE University professors (unless they have a large research grant) have no secretaries to prepare their manuscripts for publication or the hundreds of letters of recommendation, the purgatorial price professors pay for [...]
December 15th, 2011 - 3:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Online Learning From Stanford
Stanford is offering many online courses for free, I’m not sure if you know about them, but these seem interesting: Probabilistic Graphical Models: http://www.pgm-class.org/ Machine Learning: http://jan2012.ml-class.org/[...]
November 19th, 2011 - 2:22 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Phyllis Wise Will Cut Athletic Subsidy at Her New U
from ACADEME BLOG by John Wilson Last month the Chicago Tribune had a lengthy front-page article about how the University of Illinois’ general fund subsidizes the athletic program with $920,000 in free tuition waivers for student athletes. The University plans to reduce this number to $500,000[...]
November 16th, 2011 - 10:34 am § in America
How to fix higher education, on the cheap!
Ed Lascowza, a UW Prof, bemoans the fact that we turn away two-thirds of the students qualified to become computer scientists. TWO THIRDS! For a lot of us, Ed misses the question. Students may want Comp Sci or pre med, but that may not be where the jobs are. Worse, shouldn’t we be giving[...]
What If This Is The Future?
Excerpts from post by Jon Evans on Tech Crunch. There is something odd going on. While millions of long-term unemployed fight desperately to tread water, technology’s handmaidens — software engineers — are minting money like bailed-out bankers. The New York Times chimes in: “technology is qu[...]
Accreditation of Online “Universities” a hot potato
Based on a a truly frightening article The Chronicle of Higher Education WGU may want to worry about its accreditation. Congress has gotten involved in accrediting online colleges. The motivation in Congress is that “for-profit” companies rake in federal financial aid withou[...]
Our mismatch between the skills required for available jobs and individuals with those skills is growing faster than all but one other state, Delaware.
The Magic of “Computational Thinking” Training More Folks Who Can Get Jobs? In response to OPED at the Seattle Times. Rosemary McAuliffe, State Senator and Ed Lazowska , UW Prof. pof Computer Science Like evangelicals of the past, Senator . McAuliffe and Professor Lazowska, have a [...]
October 3rd, 2011 - 6:50 am § in Misc.
Depriving the already deprived, The government is bringing UK closer to the worst excesses of the US system,
By Ann Mroz, Times Higher Education (excerpted) There’s an old Polish saying that roughly translates as “when poverty comes through the door, love leaves through the window”. The same would seem true for competition and altruism. Widening participation is an issue that appears to b[...]
WGU vs the “University of Wherever.”
The University of Wherever, aka WGU? Bill Keller’s oped in the NY Times sounds like an effort to address Western Governors University, WGU. “Digital utopians have envisioned a world of virtual campuses and “distributed” learning. They imagine a business model in which online course[...]