Education
OpenStax
Rice University, which has been pushing alternative distribution mechanisms for scholarly publications for years, has announced a new initiative, by which they hope to publish free, high-quality textbooks in core subjects like physics and biology via a non-profit publisher called OpenStax College. It’s the polar opposite of Apple’s iBooks textbooks, which, while they too help [...]
MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency
If they prove they’ve learned the material, MITx will, for a small fee, give them a credential certifying as much.
MITx is the next big step in the open-educational-resources movement that MIT helped start in 2001, when it began putting its course lecture notes, videos, and exams online, where anyone in the world could use them [...]
Recent College Graduate Unemployment Rates
Engineering major with three relevant internships in the engineering field? Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Job.
Full Story at the Washington Post
30 Ways to Rate a College
With two of my kids in college and another one headed there this year I was delighted to find an article on how colleges are rated by the various magazines.