Gary Stager Teacher educator, education journalist, speaker, school reformer, university professor Posted AT HUFF POST : March 1, 2011 02:17 PM It’s sad to watch a once smart and talented man go mad right before our eyes. There needs to be an intervention for Bill Gates. I fear that he has tak[...]
Posts Tagged ‘online education’
March 3rd, 2011 - 12:09 am § in Uncategorized
“We don’t have teachers. We have mentors. Mentors don’t teach your classes. You’re learning on your own.”
“I’m going to Western Governors University” Submitted by Johann Neem on Wed, 03/02/2011 – 17:29 from UFWS blog. So this blogger decided that the future is uncertain, and that perhaps he should return to school. Knowing that the House recently voted to support making Western Gov[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 8:37 am § in Uncategorized
Other UW to go private?
Ed. This has been coming for some time and may be coming to the UW near you! The issue is not just giving UW (either one) the ability to raise tuition. Privatiziing public ivies will inevitably mean decreasing access to students from our own state(s). See other TA posts on privatization. March[...]
February 12th, 2011 - 7:11 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
UW Has a Better Idea than Texas’ $10,000 College Degree!
AUSTIN (KXAN Erin Cargile) – During his state of the state address Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry said it is time for colleges and universities to lay out a low-cost path to a degree. “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds i[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 10th, 2011 - 12:49 pm § in Misc.
WA State Colleges Go Online!
With a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is developing low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. The first 43 courses, which are as varied as “General [...]
Carlyle: Merge State Colleges into a UW/WSU System?
Rep. Reuven Carlyle (edited from his blog) ….. Recently I find myself looking at the large scale structural issue in higher education with a recognition and acknowledgement that despite my private protests governance does matter. But I don’t mean governance in the Olympia sense of whether to[...]
January 1st, 2011 - 6:17 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Bill Gates on Research In Education
We spend more money by every measure than any other system. Any way you look at it we spend by far the most money. So that is a dilemma. What are we going to do to get more out of the investments we make? Are there practices in terms of helping teachers be better that […][...]
December 18th, 2010 - 12:01 am § in Schools & Colleges
From the UK to UC, Same Bad News
The University of California Regents are voting on a plan for more out-of-state students, fully online classes and three-year undergraduate degrees. A Berkeley Prof Comments: From Berkeley Blog Rosemary Joyce, anthropology prof | 12/9/10 I am writing this blog post from London, where today, studen[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 2:08 pm § in Misc.
UW Dropout Holds Forth:
UPDATE Berkeley just raised its tuition to over $50,000. How does this affect OUR students? Read a comment from a UW dropout. You might also want to click on the tuition tag or privitization tags. The University of Washington is not aiding in my entrepreneurial endeavors but only detracting fr[...]