Penn in the News

Here are my top 7 mistakes that pundits and critics make when they talk about open online education: Mistake #1:  "Open Online Courses Are a Substitute for Traditional Courses" Higher order learning is an activity that cannot be scaled. Foundational knowledge may be appropriate for a MOOC (or a textbook, or even a really well-designed educational video game), but advanced learning works best with an educator.

The international opportunity is not one U.S. colleges and universities can afford to overlook.

Nancy Rothbard of the Wharton School joins a conversation about the significance of attitudes in the workplace.

Jules Lipoff of the Perelman School of Medicine writes a letter to the editor about virtual doctor visits.

In an era of increasing scrutiny and growing financial difficulty, health care and higher education face many of the same challenges: disruption, rising prices, consumer criticism, decreasing public funds and an increasing need for collaborations and mergers. “There’s a huge amount of discussion in health care around quality,” said Emme Deland, senior vice president for strategy at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, during the National Association of College and University Business Officers' annual meeting here.

Doctoral candidate Kecheng Fang of the Annenberg School for Communication is quoted about how Chinese media envision a political race between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School shares her insight on the Chinese real estate market.

Sy Stokes typed the words into his phone. He typed during class, on the way to dinner, and long after midnight while his roommates slept. Whenever something angered him, he’d write a line or two. One day he sat down to gather the words into a poem. It begins softly, then turns fierce as thunder. That was late summer, 2013. Mr. Stokes, then a junior at the University of California at Los Angeles, had performed his own spoken-word poetry at open-mic events. He had written lyrics about love and the mystery of beauty: "How a rat will look at a bat / Like it has the wings of an angel."

Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School comments on the financial troubles in Puerto Rico.

Jean Bennett and Manzar Ashtari of the Perelman School of Medicine are highlighted for researching a gene therapy that treats blindness and helps strengthen pathways to the brain.