In the latest post in his excellent series on teaching in a flipped classroom, Robert Talbert describes how recent experience has led to three important shifts in his thinking about pre-class and in-class work….
Continue readingWe’ve written about the flipped classroom on Open Matters before, and it’s exciting to see new data on the learning style. US News reports “the bottom third of students made…
Continue readingOpenCourseWare and MOOCs exist in a landscape of increasingly expensive higher education. The Atlantic explains the economics at work that can help us understand why colleges cost so much: Different…
Continue reading“The MIT education of the future is likely to be more global in its orientation and engagement, more modular and flexible in its offerings, and more open to experiments with…
Continue readingThe U.S. Census Bureau has just produced a fascinating visualization connecting college majors to occupations, based on data from the 2012 American Community Survey. As the Pew Research Center reports:…
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