THE MISSING COMPONENT
College education has numerous critics these days. I believe the recent fascination with MOOCs comes � at least in part � from dissatisfaction with the perceived quality of the current educational experience. We promise development of critical thinking skills in our students but often appear to deliver little more than well-rehearsed memorization. The argument then follows that we don�t need small classes and individual attention simply to teach memorization. Massive online courses can achieve that goal with much less cost. In my spare time, I often ponder how modern college education can become better. For example, is the education that a college student gets today really superior in any way to the norm 40 years ago? Cars get more miles per gallon of gas than they did back then. Computers run thousands of times faster. But, has college education gotten better during that same ...