A MOOC Course Suddenly Vanishes

(7/9/2014) Imagine that you take an online courses and start working on it. All of sudden the course site disappears. What is going on and who is responsible for those students? A course offered by a professor from the University of Zurich just disappeared like that on Coursera. Coursera has no control over the course and the strange tweets from the instructor afterwards just make things even weird. Who should be responsible for the course and how to protect the rights of online students?

Shame of Higher Education

(5/16/2014) We know for-profit colleges are very aggressive in their recruiting and misleading advertisement. But this practices is really a shame of higher eduction. Everest College intentionally faked some positions by paying contractors $2000 to hire its graduates with some temporary contract positions. After 2 months, these poor graduates are fired and denied for further assistance of finding jobs. Huffington Post obtained a document revealing the illegal and shameful practices. I think this school should be banned and the school administrators should be prosecuted.

The victim's family of the Everest College.

Gender, Porn and Business

(2/28/2014) A female students at Duke University was exposed by a Fraternity about her porn side-job. This news now spread through the campus and caused some troubles to the students. If she can be accepted as a Duke student, why do we care about her side-job that provides some services to the society?

Let us say Hefner (Playboy's publisher) wants to attend the MBA to improve his adult business. Would the business school accept his application?

MOOC Still Falls Short

(7/10/2013) There is a good analysis about why no student at Colorado State University would take an online course by just $89 to get credits which normally cost more than $1000.

I think for those who have not attended college, they may not be technologically ready for MOOC. Plus, they receive no assistance from the institution regarding how to complete a series of course to be equally trained in one subject as those students attending real classes. At this moment, MOOC is still a platform of various independent free online courses. No wonder this news says most who took MOOC courses already have college degrees. They have been through, they know what they have missed and MOOC fills that gap.