Georgia Tech’s Computer Science MOOC: The super-cheap master’s degree that could change American higher education. Photo by John Tlumacki/Boston Globe via Getty Images Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It’s offering a new master’s degree in computer science, delivered through a series of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for $6,600.
The school’s traditional on-campus computer science master’s degree costs about $45,000 in tuition alone for out-of-state students (the majority) and $21,000 for Georgia residents. But in a few years, Georgia Tech believes that thousands of students from all over the world will enroll in the new program. The $6,600 master’s degree marks an attempt to realize the tantalizing promise of the MOOC movement: a great education, scaled up to the point where it can be delivered for a rock-bottom price. Until now, the nation’s top universities have adopted a polite but distant approach toward MOOCs. As currently configured, MOOCs have plenty of failings. “It’s a complicated formula,” says Thrun. IDEO's David and Tom Kelley.
Media Lab Conversations Series: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm As founder of IDEO, David Kelley built the company that created many icons of the digital generation—the first mouse for Apple, the first Treo, the thumbs up/thumbs down button on your Tivo’s remote control, to name a few.
But what matters even more to him is unlocking the creative potential of people and organizations so they can innovate routinely. David’s most enduring contributions to the field of design are a human-centered methodology and culture of innovation. More recently, he led the creation of the groundbreaking d.school at Stanford, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Kelley was working (unhappily) as an electrical engineer when he first heard about Stanford’s cross-disciplinary Joint Program in Design, which merged engineering and art. In 1978, David co-founded the design firm that ultimately became IDEO. The Brothers Karamazov. What is the Bible? The Patristic Doctrine of Scripture. Princeton University & Princeton Theological Seminary Friday, February 14 to Saturday, February 15, 2014 Yes, the symposium is happening, despite the weather.
Join us! Registration available at the door. Now in its fourth year, the "Florovsky Symposium" is known for combining churchly piety with high-level scholarly inquiry. It attracts a large and diverse cohort of established scholars, clergy, graduate students, seminarians, and Christian believers from around the country and the world. The purpose of this year's symposium is to re-consider the various theological questions raised by the doctrine of creation ex nihilo in the Church Fathers (Greek, Latin, and Oriental), while simultaneously taking into account related controversies and developments in 20th century Christian theology. The symposium is organized by the Florovsky Society at Princeton University and the department of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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The Sociological Imagination: Who We Are and How We Got Here. C. Wright Mills, "The Promise of Sociology" Max Weber, “The Case for Value Free Sociology” Malcolm Gladwell, “Getting In” New Yorker magazine review of Jerome Karabel, The Chosen (Oct 10, 2005) Stanley Lieberson, “Why Do Tastes Become Tastes?” Lectures 3, 4. Marvin Harris, "India's Sacred Cow" Horace Miner, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” Nicholas Thomas, “Cook Reappraised” A review of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by Gananath Obeyesekere, as published in Current Anthropology, Vol. 34, No. 3 Richard Bernstein, “Cook Was (a) a God or (b) Not a God” a review of Marshall Sahlins, How Natives think About Captain Cook For Example. as published in New York Times May 24, 1995 Lectures 5, 6: Conformity and Isolation. Solomon Asch, "Group Forces in the Modification and Distortion of Judgments" Stanley Milgram, "Behavioral Study of Obedience" William Chambliss, “The Saints and the Roughnecks” Society (vol 11), pp. 24-31, 1973.
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