for orion

Indian higher education

economics of education

jennifer widon on the online databases course

john baez on teaching

ajay shah on the reforms needed in indian education

do the hard things

on apple's entry to the textbook market. superb as ever from kieran healy.

on digital textbooks. good point about IP restrictions on textbooks making it hard to publish beautiful stuff

The problem, as Clay Christensen has recently emphasized, is that students rarely learn at the same rate, let alone in the same way. Thus, in designing the interaction between teacher activities and either textual or online learning, the goal is to break free of the strict complementarity that compels step-by-step advancement of the group. Instead, online learning has to provide the means by which students can learn and master at their own pace.

no private schools in finland!

on the free online stanford courses

free stanford courses

William Deresiewicz on James Franco