social scientist Andrew Hacker suggested eliminating algebra from the school curriculum as an “onerous stumbling block,” and instead teaching students “how the Consumer Price Index is computed.” What seems to be completely lost on Hacker and authors of similar proposals is that the calculation of the CPI, as well as other evidence-based statistics, is in fact a difficult mathematical problem, which requires deep knowledge of all major branches of mathematics including … advanced algebra.
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Wellesley and Wesleyan hope MOOCs will inform campus-based teaching | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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We need to formulate a plan for how we want to address MOOCs. We can't ignore them.
The Professors' Big Stage - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Many academics are saying this piece is totally off base. I'll include a couple of posts from Inside Higher Ed that challenge Friedman.
Liberal Arts and MOOCs | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Rather than think about how "MOOCs" will influence liberal arts education, perhaps it is time to flip the question. What does traditional liberal arts education have to offer "MOOCs"? The answer remains the enduring value of education that produces critical thinkers, life-long learners and economically and politically contributing members of society. But in order to accomplish that feat, liberal arts education may have to take a lesson from MOOCs on how to generate excitement for the deployment of technology in service of inter-institutional and even international classrooms, information competency and problem-solving based courses.""
2 Democrats plan legislation to promote competency-based ed and rate colleges | Inside ... - 0 views
New competency-based programs at Lipscomb could be model for liberal arts colleges | In... - 0 views
Should algebra be in curriculum? Why math protects us from the unscrupulous. - Slate Ma... - 0 views
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Given the recent article that Grant shared about the quality of students coming in to college, (and the QL Horizons group), this article reinforces that there are multiple critical thinking "literacies" that are under siege.
Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational ou... - 0 views
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Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further, the research suggests that colleges that spend a fraction of what others do, and operate with much higher student-faculty ratios and greater use of part-time faculty members, may be succeeding educationally as well as their better-financed (and more prestigious) counterparts
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45 colleges and universities, most of them liberal arts colleges,
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good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty," high expectations and academic challenge, interaction with ideas and people different from one's own, and "deep learning" through characteristics identified by the National Survey of Student Engagement.
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The outcomes variables are as per NSSE
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survey shows that colleges (w.liberal arts in sample) that have more spending per students, part time faculty and higher faculty-student ratios, get similar results on the NSSE score. A NSEE variable is "good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty"
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