MOOCs and University Managment Troubles

MOOCs and University Managment Troubles

If you're an investor in educational services and are following MOOCmania in the newspapers or in the mind of the technopublicist Thomas Friedman,...

Privatization Hits the Wall

Privatization Hits the Wall

State political leaders are now using board meetings in the Cal State and University of California systems as political theaters.  Every couple...

Thoughts and Deeds of Mark G. Yudof: A Resignation Reader

Thoughts and Deeds of Mark G. Yudof: A Resignation Reader

Mark Yudof in 2008, before his arrival at the University of California These materials will be expanded and edited on a rolling basis. 1992, May...

Forum on Online

Forum on Online

This morning I found myself on KQED's Forum with Michael Krassny program to discuss online education with San Jose State President Mo Qayoumi, Udacity's...

Whose Online? What Online?

Whose Online? What Online?

I was only able to listen to a portion of the Regent's session on Online Education (I caught the last 45 minutes of the UCOP discussion and the presentation...

Addressing the Austerity Lock-in at Public Universities

Addressing the Austerity Lock-in at Public Universities

California continues to show public universities the way towards a permanent austerity.  Governor Jerry Brown's budget proposal for 2013-14 (summary...

Full Rush Transcript of MOOCfest at UCLA

Full Rush Transcript of MOOCfest at UCLA

Click here for a full rush transcript of the event called "Rebooting California Higher Education last week.  Many thanks to Jenna Joo...

Uses of the Public University--A UC Faculty Perspective

Uses of the Public University--A UC Faculty Perspective

University Librarian, UC Santa Cruz, 1966. Photo by Ansel Adams. By Ann Bermingham (UCSB) and Catherine Cole (UCB) For the first time in nearly...

Seven Questions to the MOOCFest

Seven Questions to the MOOCFest

Photo from "UC Online Courses Fail to Lure Outsiders," San Francicso Chronicle. UCLA's "Reboot" with MOOCs extravaganza begins right about now. ...

MOOCs and Parking Lots: Privatization on Auto-Pilot

MOOCs and Parking Lots: Privatization on Auto-Pilot

Photo: Granada parking lot, Santa Barbara, CA. By 6 am this Sunday morning a neon sign was blinking silently inside my head. It flashed MOOC, MOOC,...