When others channel the Borg, look for the bagmen and the Borgias

Inevitability is a common rhetorical ploy in education. To Thomas Edison, film would inevitably replace textbooks. In the 1960s, B.F. Skinner said that teaching machines were inevitably going to replace teachers. In 2012, massive open online courses (MOOCs) were inevitably going to take over higher education. Pick your initiative, and you can almost always find someone […]