Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year are you in? I asked the young woman.  If you had left college as a first-year student, would we call you a failure, or would [...]

Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Partnership   By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 2, 2012 (AP)   Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday. Beginning this fall, a [...]

                GO DAVID FERRIERO! Quote of the day:  I want every stinking piece of this collection digitized,” Mr. Ferriero said. “I want it available to the world 24 hours a day.” No mere mortal can search across the nation’s rich archival and book databases, and life’s too short [...]

It’s in Apple’s DNA that “technology alone is not enough.  It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.”  Then he illustrated this idea with a street sign at an imagined intersection between Technology and the Liberal Arts.  Steven Johnson says in the WSJ:  “He [...]