Since I’ve been teaching, I’ve occasionally posted articles about it that I like on the various sites that I’ve had. (Miss you, Google+ page!) So, anyway, here are some of them all in one place.

This video is part of an interview with Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google’s DeepMind (also check out AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough). This part of the interview is his take on undergraduate and graduate education.

Are colleges failing?

Higher ed needs new lesson plans. A remarkable feature of American colleges is the lack of attention that most faculties pay to the growing body of research about how much students are learning and how they could be taught to learn more. Read the article on archive.boston.com

The Shadow Scholar

The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story

The request came in by e-mail around 2 in the afternoon. It was from a previous customer, and she had urgent business. I quote her message here verbatim (if I had to put up with it, so should you): “You did me business ethics propsal for me I need propsal got approved pls can you will write me paper?”

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