Tag: environments
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Dan Ariely on MOOCs and the future of higher education
Behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, author of books like Predictably Irrational, speaker at TED, and professor at Duke, just kicked off a MOOC through Coursera with 144,000 participants. He talks about the experience in an insightful interview. This section on the future of higher education was particularly interesting: I don’t think that the future of the…
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Yahoo, telecommuting, focused work, and higher ed
There’s been a good amount of chatter over Yahoo’s kibosh on telecommuting. They’ve called everyone back to the office. Work from here, or don’t work. Some people think it’s great. Others think it’s a move backwards. A few things stand out: Every workplace is different. Programmers who can be evaluated on productivity and lines of code may not…
Jon Sampson 