Spring 2014 Features
Education at the Touch of a Screen
BU rethinks the classroom experience and offers it globally By Leslie Friday (COM’07) MOOCs (massive open online courses) have begun at BU, signaling the University’s official entrance into a new form of higher education that rethinks the current classroom model and offers it—free of charge—to a global audience. (And yes, parents can sign up for […]
Questions, Please
Thurman Center program for intellectual, curious students By Paula Sokolska (CAS’15, COM’15) Above photo: TeAndrea Jackson (CGS’15) (left) and Christian Cho, mediator and founder of Agora. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi Imagine that all men are gone. Fathers, brothers, uncles, boyfriends—gone. In the course of a night, every Y-chromosome-carrying human male has ceased to exist, vanished […]
The First-Years Abroad
New CGS program for second-semester freshmen By Susan Seligson At the start of the spring semester, BU’s College of General Studies (CGS) welcomed the first 80 freshmen to its fledgling January Program in Boston and London. The new core curriculum is condensed into six months (rather than the previous nine) and capped by a six-week […]