i think the obv problem is that you can't really bully an 18-year-old into doing its organic chemistry homework
― Mordy , Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
I have a *provocative question* to ask -- doesn't the private student loan industry already basically make an "upfront investment" in your education in exchange for a guarantee of future cashflows from your income (or even in spite of your lack thereof)?
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
I mean it's fun to write in dystopian language that makes it sound like we'll all be slaves, but I don't really see how that sounds worse than what we have now (which, of course, is bad).
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
well, i think the implication is that the more of a role finance has in education funding, the more it will follow past examples in asserting more detailed specifications of the product upfront?
which in my experience would be disastrous in particular for students who get locked in but cannot find their way to succeeding/thriving in a course of study initially chosen (of whom there are loads, maybe even the majority?).
― j., Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
http://i62.tinypic.com/28bftwn.png
fuck u salon + fuck u gen-x'rs, ffs
― Mordy , Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.policymic.com/articles/48829/why-you-should-never-have-taken-that-prestigious-internship
sarah kendzior sayin strong stuff bout 'prestige economy'
― j., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
kendzior is the shit
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.totalenter10.com/is-pearson-education-in-serious-financial-trouble/
v. v. detailed rundown of education vendor/octopus pearson education's current state of business
― j., Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
http://i60.tinypic.com/10z2ttd.png
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Alan Singer's article is mostly nonsense. The share price uncertainly is more a reflection of concern that the educational materials sector is never going to be as profitable in established markets as it was three or four years ago. It isn't linked to a belief that the company is "overextended" - something he doesn't really provide any evidence of. Some factual errors and lots of speculation too - particularly relating to the idea that the spread of online education (in which it is only one player of many) will lead to the closure of thousands of colleges. The idea that tests are actively being made harder to generate more money is an absurdity.
It's frustrating as there is definitely a good article waiting to be written about the company and the potential conflicts between service provision and active participation in policy making but I get the sense that nobody really has enough of an overview or enough expertise to write it without a hell of a lot more research and consideration than Singer. The attacks are coming from people with an axe to grind where a scalpal would be more effective.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 May 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=4464
Those millions aren’t enough, apparently, to pay translators to help the company extend its online courses, or MOOCs, into foreign markets. Instead, Coursera is taking the digital sharecropping route. It announced this week that it is recruiting skilled translators and asking them to donate their work to the company for free. What the volunteers receive, in lieu of income, is the satisfaction of being a member of Coursera’s “community.” Translation, says the company, is “much more than a means to an end. By joining the GTC [Global Translator Community], you’ll become a member of a tight-knit community of committed individuals and organizations.”
― j., Thursday, 1 May 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
jesus did they pick that up at awesomeness fest
― goole, Friday, 2 May 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
That's a bizarre use of the word "sharecropping." Also, no one's gonna fucking do that.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 May 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
it is much more than a means to an end. to you. to us, it is a means to an end. the end of not paying you.
― j., Friday, 2 May 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/images/lmphoto_tom1.jpg
― Mordy, Friday, 2 May 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/ed33eb6bd1cb3a74ded14c1733617d7d/tumblr_n5hd5t1VFO1qz7k76o1_500.png
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 May 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
rage
― j., Monday, 12 May 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
facebook actually did that 'hey can u guys translate this for us thanks' thing back in the day
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/facebook-files-for-patent-on-crowdsourced-translations/
― iatee, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
xxxp
That's a fucking bummer
― building a desert (art), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
arrrrrgh that coursera stuff makes me so fucking mad
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
a milli a milli a milli
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
*Typical Financial Profilenah just playing there are literally only about 12 millenials like this
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Miseducation-of-America/147227/
― 龜, Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/magazine/its-official-the-boomerang-kids-wont-leave.html
― iatee, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
More than that, they represent a much larger anxiety-provoking but also potentially thrilling economic evolution that is affecting all of us.
They must be firing editors.
― What Is It Like To Be A HOOS? (silby), Friday, 20 June 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
or hiring sixth graders to write thinkpieces
― What Is It Like To Be A HOOS? (silby), Friday, 20 June 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
feel like it's one step away from: "no, you can't find security, but the opposite of security is risk, and risk has higher rewards, so this is an OPPORTUNITY FOR HIGH REWARDS DO U SEE?!"
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 20 June 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/technology/workplace-surveillance-sees-good-and-bad.html?smid=tw-share
will any of these employers pay me to curl up in a ball on my bed and claw my way up from catatonia because i can do that real efficiently
― j., Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
i mean jesus
― j., Sunday, 22 June 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
The idiocy:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/upshot/the-reality-of-student-debt-is-different-from-the-cliches.html
The response:http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/that-big-study-about-how-the-student-debt-nightmare-is-in-your-head-its-garbage
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
The rebuttal seems sound, although my grasp of stats and sampling is weak at best. But I appreciated the point in the first article about students who don't graduate and are STILL carrying debt--because students who don't graduate often don't graduate for family and financial reasons, so there's a high correlation with ppl who won't be able to pay back the loans they took out, esp without that degree.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Right, there is that and also some other good substantive points in the times article, but the way they slice it up and present it winds up as "student debt is way overblown and nbd"
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
nice to see someone calling bullshit on that terrible brookings study
― dude (Lamp), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Love the headshots http://i.imgur.com/NpnxD7i.png
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
matthew chingos more like matthew chingados, pinche cabron
― it's not a fedora, it's a trill bae (m bison), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
They look like smug fraternal twins doing a smug mind-meld.
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/fashion/the-millennials-are-generation-nice.html
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
holy shit http://chronicle.com/blogs/letters/is-that-whining-adjunct-someone-we-want-teaching-our-young/
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
I can only say that I have had full-time employment with benefits both inside and outside working in academia for over 30 years. I made choices.
I started out in a completely different era and everything worked out for me, so all you whining children who are starting out in today's world must not know shit about life. QED.
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
As one of my friends might say, “Time to put on your big-girl panties!”
"As one of my friends might say, if I had friends"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
Courses taught: Google Applications; Social Networking for Business, Office Supervision, Business Communications, MS Office applications 2010 (and earlier), Introduction to Management, Voice recognition, Office Orientation, Keyboarding, etc.
― iatee, Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
(and earlier) <---- how you know she's a true expert in her field
― j., Thursday, 28 August 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
office orientation: shld u point yr desk THIS way or THIS WAY? an ethnomethodological approach
― j., Thursday, 28 August 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
She's written "definately" multiple times in the comments section
― een, Thursday, 28 August 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
http://morton.edu/OMT/
Today’s administrative professional handles a variety of duties and need skills in many facets of office procedures and technology including: Internet/Intranet communication, problem-solving, cloud computing, project management, Microsoft Office applications, mobile technology, social media, electronic record keeping, web conferencing, organization, and customer service.
― iatee, Thursday, 28 August 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsT-_ITj8xE
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
I was researching the for-profit college industry today at work, and it occurred to me that the Obama admin actually has done quite a lot of cracking down on the scammy operators in that field, and have genuinely wounded the industry, possibly mortally. Something genuinely good the admin has don.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
really? any good articles about that?
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:27 (nine years ago) link
It wasn't something I found in one place but I found a lot of different things that added up to that picture for me.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:29 (nine years ago) link