Siva Vaidhyanathan on MOOCs, just to keep the discussion going. If we support the MOOC experiment it would be foolish to do so without confronting the serious incentive problems MOOCs present to teachers, students, and institutions of higher education. These … Continue reading →

This piece at Marginal Revolution draws our attention once again to the ways in which being rich benefits the rich twice–once in terms of a direct access to wealth, and once in terms of how it allows the wealthy to … Continue reading →

Making sure everyone sees this. Source: Printculture

Source: Printculture

If you have time this Sunday please read Walter Kirn’s review of Samson Graham-Muñoz’s new novel, The String Theory Quartet.  The following quotations are from the novel: “The weather today was the weather of yesterday and tomorrow it would be the weather … Continue reading →

One of the most amazing things about the digital age’s redistribution of the means of aesthetic production and distribution is that it reveals how much love and ambition remain connected to the work of making. Here you have, for free, … Continue reading →