Saturday, June 30, 2018

Affirmative action at America's top tier private colleges and universities ... updated 9/29/18

Last update: Satirday 9/29/18
The advocates for Asian applicants who are currently challenging Harvard University's admissions policies would surely concede that all of the freshmen admitted in a particular year to a top tier university should be Ethiopian or Polish or Peloponnesian Greek if Ethiopians, Poles, or Peloponnesian Greeks were the most qualified applicants that year.

Sunday, June 24, 2018

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 6/23/18

Last update: Sunday 6/24/18 @ 12:30 pm
This week's cover = Supreme Court rules in favor of cell phone privacy ... Other top stories = Harvard University's alleged bias against Asian American applicants ... Supreme Court allows states to collect sales tax from online and out-of-state retailers ... Disney outbids Comcast to buy Fox

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other  organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 6/23/18


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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

No more "MOOCs"

Last update: Monday 8/20/18
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ..."  

With all due respect to the Bard, what something is called sometimes matters a great deal. I suggest that the word "MOOC" had a clear meaning back in 2011 when it was an acronym for a "massive, open, online course" ... but not anymore.