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 [...]
Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered
May 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
I just love being right. Early, yes, but that’s the thing about pioneering. Timing is everything. Fathom showed the way. #highered #macaulay
May 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
I’m dreaming DPLA…but first, let’s kill all the acronyms! @dpla @macaulayhonors
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Best e-book and web developer in town happens to be Matt Stine: read how he made R.L.Stine even scarier on Kindle! http://bit.ly/qcE3ME #ereading
October 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Jobs on Apple’s DNA: “Technology married with liberal arts.”
October 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Congrats to Smarthistory, one of TIME’s best websites of 2011! http://ti.me/oihfpC
August 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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Can you say F*A*T*H*O*M? Online learning coming of age, nice new iteration at Stanford: 58,000 Taking Course on AI: http://nyti.ms/pam4ni
August 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
You can still see the exhaust fumes at FATHOM. We were so on the right track. Take another bow, fellow Fathomites!
What happens what you can’t judge a book by its cover? My latest e-reading thoughts, http://bit.ly/mjNkNT
May 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment
and if you are motivated to read some other articles I wrote on this subject: More “For the Love of Reading,” with Brooke Gladstone, “On the Media,” WNYC-NPR, July 2, 2010 (podcast). My iPAD day, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2010 How do you read your books? Romana Koval interviews Ann Kirschner for “the [...]
