Month: July 2013
Education Worldwide
The Wert Law and the ‘Mcdonalization’ of Spanish -and Catalan- education
The law adopted by the Spanish Government, to take effect on 2014 – 2015 (known as Wert Law), has caused a heated public debate in Spain. We came across an essay of Ferran Ruiz Tarragó,[…]
OpenEd & OER
A University’s Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers
By Steve Kolowich, July 8, 2013 It was big news last fall when Colorado State University-Global Campus became the first college in the United States to grant credit to students who passed a MOOC, or[…]
OpenEd & OER
MOOCs and Economic Reality
In the article of Mo., July 8, Clay Shirky argues that it is impossible to understand what’s happening with MOOCs without understanding what’s happened to higher education in general. During the last 40 years, the[…]