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The Content Cartel
I was reading a New York Times article today about how Netflix has received a bunch of Emmy nominations for its new original content. (I watched House of Cards and enjoyed it.) What struck me was this...
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MITx Now Offering Credentials
When Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) were created I noted that the first generation would pretty much try to follow the pattern of campus classes. The web did the same thing until the web 2.0 era....
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Google Makes It Easy(er) To Put Courses Online
When the Internet first went public you had to create web pages by hand coding html files. To create a video game, you had to code everything by hand. To create 3d models you had to input points into...
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Massive Open Online… Research?
H/T Kurzweilai.com UC San Diego is launching the first major online course that prominently features “massive open online research” (MOOR). In “Bioinformatics Algorithms — Part 1,” UC San Diego...
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How Higher Education Is Vulnerable To Disruption
According to Harvard Business professor Clayton M Christensen, the way disruptive forces change an industry is by moving into areas of a market that the established players don’t consider important....
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MOOC Creator Changes Targets
Last year I wrote that Sebastian Thrun is the most dangerous man in Higher Education. He was launching a web site called Udacity. Well, turns out it didn’t achieve the results of disrupting higher...
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The Disaggregation of Art?
I seem to have a series of posts going about various industries undergoing disaggregation. This is an observation I’ve had on what the true disruptive nature of the Internet is. The Internet is a flat...
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My 2013 Predictions Revisited
I suppose before making predictions for 2014 I have to settle my account for 2013 right? Here’s the full post for my 2013 predictions but I’ll summarize each below. 1. The fall class of college...
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Are “Walmarts” Of Higher Education A Good Thing?
The age of flight has gone through a number of phases. One of my favorites is the 1940s. Check out this video of the “new” DC-6 airliner. I love all the space you have in the cabin! Of course, things...
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Coursera Now Offering “Degrees”
H/T Forbes [Coursera] will start awarding Specializations for students who have mastered a series of closely connected online courses — and are willing to pay $250 to $500 for validation of their...
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