Academics are distressed at the thought that Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, could do to them what the internet has done to newspaper reporters.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Wrong Way on Remediation
The 50 percent remediation rate in colleges is often cited by critics of public schools, including Accuracy in Academia, as evidence of the failure of these elementary and secondary schools.
Losing Ground to MOOCs
Academia is fighting Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs and losing.
Brave New World 2013
Aldous Huxley call your office.
Massive Open Online Catholicism
A professor at a Catholic college claims to make “A Catholic Case Against MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses]” in the Chronicle of Higher Education but his arguments never veer far from the secular.
Ultimate White Collar Union
Something happened to the labor movement when it went from blue collar to white collar. This is nowhere more apparent than in the various teachers’ and professors’ unions.
Century of Dubious Achievements
“As summer becomes fall, we commence the 100th anniversary of that most glorious of all the violations of the United States Constitution, the Federal Reserve.” Seth Lipsky, The American Spectator, September 2013.
Advocacy Journalism Gone Wild
Aligning themselves with dubious foreign movements is nothing new for America’s elite journalists.
Two-Party System Deconstructed
“One of the biggest reasons the state tends to grow no matter who is in power is that the country has two big-government parties.”—W. James Antle III, The American Spectator, September 2013.
NEA Not Aging Gracefully
America’s largest teacher’s union is finally showing signs of antiquity and may be on the verge of irrelevancy.