Go with the Flow | UV Letter - Volume II, #15
Is online education effective? Over the past decade virtually every study on the question has demonstrated that it is as effective as traditional classroom delivery. But as none of these studies...
View ArticleWaystation on the Road to Badges: Double-click Degrees | UV Letter - Volume...
"By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world... So tonight I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career...
View ArticleThe Great Unbundling - Popping bundles, not bubbles | UV Letter - Volume II, #17
Over the past decade, sales of recorded music are down 50% and continue to fall each year. The reason isn’t online piracy. It’s that digital technology has forced a revolution in a business model that...
View ArticleElitism, Equality and MOOCS - Inside Higher Education - UV Letter - Volume...
"The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known." -- Clark Kerr. From a global perspective, the most distinctive characteristic of American...
View ArticleOnline Learning: This Bud's for You - UV Letter - Volume II, #19
Summary: Beer industry market segmentation is employed as an analogy for the online learning market. These segments provide different answers to the question of when and under what circumstances...
View Article(Re)Searching for Online Learning 2.0 - UV Letter - Volume II, #20
Conventional wisdom says – and most analysts agree – that online higher education will continue to grow like a weed, with annual growth exceeding 20%. But how to square conventional wisdom with...
View ArticleSynchronicity - UV Letter - Volume II, #21
After a year’s excitement over the transformative potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs), it shouldn’t be surprising that critics are emerging. Academics are enrolling in MOOCs and writing...
View ArticleDebating the Dystopian Counterfactual
Only a few topics in the Presidential debates produced complete agreement between President Obama and Governor Romney. The middle class? (Check. Both candidates seem to be in favor of the middle...
View ArticleJobs, Capabilities and the New Digital Divide
If the presidential election was about one thing, it was jobs. A few numbers stand out from the campaign: 23 million unemployed, an unemployment rate that has remained over 7% since the last election,...
View ArticleDeath of the Degree? Not So Fast
'Death of the Degree? Not So Fast' at Inside Higher Education
View ArticleThe University is Not Flat
In his 2005 book The World is Flat, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thomas Friedman illuminated the new digital face of globalization, its results and discontents....
View ArticleChina's Elite Universities: Blackpool Before EasyJet
One of the great virtues of a liberal arts education is its demonstrated ability to prepare students for a multitude of different employment paths - not only later in life, but immediately upon...
View ArticleUniversity Ventures Letter - Volume II, Holiday Edition - Online Education...
Since establishing University Ventures nearly two years ago, we have written and spoken on many aspects of higher education and online education in particular. With nearly 15% of U.S. students...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #1 - Harvard, Yale and the Future of For-Profit...
What makes American higher education exceptional? Most Americans would argue quality, which it turns out boils down to a discrete mix of readily quantifiable educational inputs like spending per...
View ArticleHype vs. Hope - San Jose State + Udacity vs. Linn State Technical College
Never has so much been made by so many about so few. Last week’s announcement by Udacity and the California State University system that they would jointly develop remedial and introductory MOOCs,...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #3 - The Price isn't Right
“How should families think about college affordability?... At many colleges, almost no one pays the sticker price.” - Chronicle of Higher Education It has been over a year since the Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #4 - Value So Low, It Should Be Against the Law
In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama said he would ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act “so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #5 - Where Stupidity is a Handicap
It was Napoleon who famously said “in politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” This adage encapsulates much of what happens in Washington, DC, where a panoply of apolitical issues are bogged down in...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #6 - Hey MOOCs, Get Smarter
MOOC providers must have been singing along last week as the Democratic leader in the California State Senate introduced a measure that would require state-supported institutions to award credit for...
View ArticleUV Letter - Volume III, #7 - Jackpot
I had the pleasure of attending law school in New Haven right after legalized gambling was introduced to Puritan New England in the form of the giant Foxwoods Casino in nearby Ledyard, CT. During my...
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