MITx + HARVARDx = edX. The New Equation For Free Education?

With great wealth comes great responsibility. That's how we judge the tycoons of tech. While many of them spend their money on expensive luxuries, like cars, houses, planes — even islands — they are also expected to use their prosperity to do good works. That's the implicit demand of the tech industry.

From today's Chronicle of Higher Education:

A NUMBER of critics of pro-labour leftists have pointed out the ways in which labour unions have impeded important reforms in recent years. Perhaps, responds Kevin Drum, but if you look at the language used by anti-labour Republicans, you see that crushing labour isn't about clearing a path to reform. It's about something more like defeating a spiritual enemy. So maybe we shouldn't cheer their fight against unions as a step toward a better run state.

Two of the hottest stories on Forbes.com in the past week or so have been about SOPA (226,810 views!) and MITx (539,810 views!!). So following the premise that anything that can get mashed up will, I decided a little searching was in order. And, in fact, there has been some very intelligent writing on how ...

A story on NPR Morning Edition yesterday about What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits raised an interesting thought in relation to the MITx initiative. Instead of the normal 90% relapse rate for rehabbed heroin addicts, those returning from the Vietnam War had only a 5% relapse rate. The explanation turned out to be ...

With a greater international exchange of ideas, goods, services, and talent today, our world has never been more wired and connected. Globalization has wholly transformed how people across continents absorb information and interact with each other. I believe it also has subtly changed how we think and act as individuals.