The panel, titled “MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches,” featured five college professors who expressed fear for the future of their humanities departments and courses because of the introduction of MOOCs, mostly from a feminist perspective.
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Professors Scared of MOOCs
When asked whether the college system was broken and what factors contributed to both programs and pay getting cut by their colleges, several professors reacted with strong opinions.
Left-Wing Support Group
It’s odd watching a group of left-wing academics buck up each other’s spirits after they’ve encountered the cold, cruel world outside academe.
MLA Hates Common Core
When education reforms are attacked by both the Left and Right, maybe both sides have a good point.
Are MOOCs the Future?
Professors from Stanford, Brigham Young University and University of Colorado at Boulder claimed that massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, are not a threat to their profession, while simultaneously showing their colleagues how they could get in on the action.
Flawed History @ MLA
Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.
Autism Speaks & Articulately
One remarkable facet of disability studies: when the “disabled” actually speak, they do so with greater clarity and less jargon than those who would purport to study them.
Superficial Diversity of MLA
When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.
CAP Likes Common Core
There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.
Railing on Rand Again
Ayn Rand does provide much fodder for academics.