America’s prestigious Ivy League schools — Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Yale University — have lost their luster amidst a woke leftward lurch that has built for decades.
The chickens have now come home to roost, America. Isn’t that the truth, Harvard? Continue reading
Comes now the data that suggests women are more likely to attend college — thereby becoming better educated — than men. Can this be true?
No way, Big Red Car.
Fine, dear reader, let me show you a graph:
Higher education has a new problem — how to administer and proctor tests in an online learning environment. How does online learning deal with cheat from home?
How does a professor ensure that her students are not cheating as they take those tests and final exams?
All of you engineers with your open book problem solving exams can just STFU with your superior attitudes and admonitions about how engineering is taught and tested. Yes, I’m an engineer and most of my exams were completely open book.
Herman Wouk, an American writer of substantial importance has died. The Pulitzer Prize author of such masterpieces as “The Caine Mutiny” was 103, only 10 days from his 104th birthday. He was described as a man who made American literature “kinder, gentler, better” by his peers upon the occasion of his 80th birthday. An extraordinary tribute considering his subject matter.
“The Caine Mutiny,” of course, was made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart as the unstable commander, Lt Commander Philip Francis Queeg, of a Navy, ship with odd fixations on a pair of metal balls he constantly rolled in his hand and some missing strawberries, an incredible delicacy on a US Navy ship.
Big Red Car here on the heels of a Texas thunderstorm of respectable proportions. Lightning, thunder, rain, wind — ah, we love the rain this time of year in Texas. Last night we got it. Big time. Let’s talk millennials, shall we?
So the Big Red Car has been thinking about Millennials, particularly the male of the species. They are coming in for a lot of criticism and the Big Red Car wants to provide some helpful suggestions of how y’all might slip the noose and bit. Not a very deep thought but it is Saturday morning.
Millenials?
Here goes.
Big Red Car here. So, you don’t know what a MOOC is, do you?
A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course and it is the promise of the Internet writ large.
In this instance, Texas State University in San Marcos — just a few miles south of Austin — has made it possible to use MOOCs to place out of a student’s entire freshman year. In effect, free tuition for your freshman year.
Hey, Big Red Car, that sounds like a revolutionary idea. Is it?
Well, yes, dear reader, it is. Let me ‘splain it to y’all. Continue reading
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