This is a great passion of mine on which I have worked very hard over the years in relative isolation. It’s great that people are finally catching on but there is a tremendous amount of BS and fraud in this also. Most notably MOOCs (but more on that another time).
How to ‘Gamify’ Your Class Website – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
This may shed some light…
Two days ago, Gawker reported that CUNY was paying General David Petraeus $200,000 to teach one course next year. Three hours after the story broke, CUNY informed Gawker that the salary was in fact lower: Petraeus would only be getting $150,000 and would also be giving some of it to charity. Yesterday, Republican State Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor challenged the timing of that announcement, pointing out that CUNY had yet to produce any documentary evidence to show that it had not revised the salary downward after—and only after—the Gawker story had broken.
CUNY is now claiming that they have a letter, dated May 29, 2013, from Dean Anne Kirschner to Petraeus, setting out the $150,000 salary. They’ve posted it on this website.
There’s just one problem: since posting the letter, an inside source tells me, administrators have taken down it down twice. Right now, all I’m getting when I…
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We can make jokes (and I have) but am now beginning to worry about bloodshed and even civil war…
From Reuters: The post on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), headed by armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.”
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 