Perhaps you have taken course through Lynda.com, the online education company focused on educating users in software, creative and business skills. If you are a professor or thought leader, have you ever thought about how to teach a course using the platform?If yes, you will want to listen to episode 44 of the FIR on Higher Education podcast. My guest Deirdre Breakenridge, CEO at Pure …
Fear of new technologies and chalkboards
Are you today's equivalent of the Yale student body that protested the chalkboard in the 1830s?Seems like a ridiculous question and scenario. But believe it or not, this is a true story according to Professor Cathy Davidson. I am taking Davidson's fantastic MOOC course “The Future and History of Mostly Higher Education”. In the course, she tells the following story:“In the 1830s, a …
Podcast # 11 – The Impact of MOOCs on Teaching and Marketing
"They will change the way we all approach teaching."This is what Vincent Mangematin, a professor at France’s Grenoble Ecole de Management, told me on FIR on Higher Education episode 11.MOOCs are certainly causing disruption. Mangematin wrote in the Financial Times that MOOCs will leave behind a trail of failed global business schools. He elaborated on this piece in the podcast episode and …