I grew up in the aftermath of Nasser’s Egypt, where public education was made free for all. For me, learning has always been remote… It began with walks to the public libraries, and random flaneur strollings in Old Cairo’s Sur al-Azbakiyya, a treasure hunt for books, old and new, in a modest...

The MOOC era has dawned with a rush of utopian and dystopian bombast, much of which is bound to be wrong.

Here is a link to a collaborative course I am giving with Cathy Davidson at Duke.  It is time to at least halt the MOOC train and engage ourselves and our students in a broad conversation of what is going on here.