Textbooks May Be So Yesterday, But Tomorrow Doesn’t Come Cheap

Here is a fine article by Juliet Williams of the Associated Press covering California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s suggestion that the state could save part of its $350 million a year school textbook budget by putting content online. This announcement has made news everywhere. But before delving in to the subject, I want to give Ms. […]

“Jetson Students in a Flintstone’s World!”

The headline on this post comes from the title of a speech given by an online high school teacher named Pam Birtolo. The teacher and her recent talk received coverage here in this article in the Herald Online. While it is a memorable speech title, in the talk itself she paints a stark contrast between […]

The Changing Landscape of Work Life

In a recent issue, Time magazine presents a ten chapter look at how jobs, companies, management structures, and working people’s expectations and requirements will change in the coming years. If I culled every interesting stat and statement from this report, this post would be a mile long. But here are two that I just can’t […]

Economics Professor Gives Eight Reasons to Support Online College Courses

Margaret Brooks is a professor of economics and chair of the economics department at Bridgewater State College. She is also the president of the Massachusetts Council on Economic Education. Writing recently for The Chronicle of Higher Education in a viewpoint entitled The Excellent Inevitability of Online Courses, Professor Brooks provides eight reasons for colleges and […]

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