Cathy was recently quoted in a New York Times article charting the surge in popularity of MOOCs. “Sign up for anything that appeals to you and quit when you get bored,” Cathy advised… Read more »
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To say that American universities are too expensive is like saying cars are too expensive. What do we mean by such a statement? Are we talking about the cost of a Lamborghini Veneno… Read more »
In an earlier blog, “Clearing Up Some Myths About MOOCs” (http://hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2013/06/11/clearing-some-myths-about-moocs ), I promised to keep a log of time, expense, human resources, ideas, drafts, syllabi, books, articles, assignments, and other MOOC-y features,… Read more »
This is a first draft of the storyboard outline for The History and Future of Higher Education, my six-week Coursera course that will begin in Spring 2014, and that is open to all, for free, without… Read more »
I have had a blast this semester teaching with my friend and colleague Dan Ariely. He’s everything you want a teacher to be–smart, engaged, funny, attentive, candid, direct. He and I are… Read more »
Next week, I’m giving a presentation to forty CEO’s and CIO’s from Fortune 100 companies on how the science of attention blindness can help us make decisions. These “10 Rules for Smart Decisions… Read more »
What are the most important things we can do to help prepare our students for their future (not our past)?
In Surprise Endings: Social Science and Literature, the Duke class I team-teach with behavioral economist Dan Ariely, we explore the deepest aspects of human behavior, as learned in empirical social science experiments and… Read more »
For two days, I sat glumly in a higher-powered meeting of program directors for a famous philanthropic organization frustrated that I was unable to log in to my laptop to be able to… Read more »
Yesterday, a group of us went public with a document we’ve been working on, together and collaboratively, since December 13, 2012: Our “Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in a Digital Age.” … Read more »