Brian McDermott

I wish I could say that’s because of my teaching panache as a visual journalism professor at UMass Amherst. But the reason is more universal. By creating a blended learning classroom—and incorporating external Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)—I can now confidently outsource what’s boring, remedial, monotonous and binary to self-guided online lessons.

Bat for Lashes singer Nastasha Khan is making silly faces. A little later, she’s spinning in a circle and changing outfits. She pulls her hair.