The recent announcement from the California State University System regarding its embrace of edX massive open online courses (MOOCs) is interesting and depressing at the same time. As with many aspects of … read more »
Autism Studies and Wearable Technology
In today’s Academic Minute, Northeastern University’s Matthew Goodwin describes how wearable technology is improving the quality of autism studies. Goodwin is an assistant professor of health informatics at Northeastern. Find … read more »
Learning to Adapt
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survives,” Charles Darwin once observed, “but the one most responsive to change.” If only it were true in higher education. It’s interesting to … read more »
Immigrating into a New World
Being first at anything is hard, but being first at college is a bewildering and sometimes terrifying experience. I work with a scholarship program at Northeastern University that funds students … read more »
5 Questions for Northeastern’s Peter Stokes
Dr. Peter Stokes is currently the executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Many of you probably got to know Peter during his … read more »
The Particle Accelerator of Learning
“The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out … read more »
Is “Feminist” A Sexist Word?
Whenever I teach an introductory lesson on “gender” in my first-year international affairs and international relations classes, I find myself prefacing my explanation of “feminism” with the familiar “Feminism is … read more »
The Return of the Sequester
Wary of the cuts on the horizon, agencies appear to already be slowing funding. On campus, researchers are seeing a slowdown in federal grant-making and disbursement, said Tim Leshan, vice … read more »
Not Rushing Into MOOCs
Watching and waiting — and strategizing — can be a difficult choice to make given the “herd mentality” that has developed around MOOCS, according to Peter Stokes, executive director of … read more »
Americans Support Higher Ed and Online Degrees, Poll Finds
A large majority of Americans who have attended college believe higher education is a good investment (83 percent) and key to achieving the American dream, according to the results of … read more »
Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
In today’s Academic Minute, Northeastern University’s Amy Sliva examines how advances in computing power are allowing for an artificially intelligent approach to cyber security. Sliva is an assistant professor at … read more »
The New Liberal Arts
Up to half of new graduates, by some estimates, are finding themselves jobless or underemployed. Why? As Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern … read more »