“My class, my choice.”
That's the title of my latest post on the Academe blog. It's something of a retread of themes I've already explored on this blog, which means it's also the mandatory…
Mind the gap.
Yesterday was a pretty good day for two reasons: 1) I learned that the first Trader Joe's has opened in Colorado Springs. 2) I went to see Jad Abumrad speak…
Mandatory use of learning management systems?
Ever since I wrote that article for Academe a few months ago, I've been arguing that mandatory use of learning management systems is the future of higher education. Our employers…
“I feel the earth move under my feet…”
Good old Phil Hill shot me his notes from Educause via Google+ last night because he knew I'd want to see them. My first reaction was that I wasn't touching…
The MOOC revolution is indeed over.
The other day, after posting my last post here, I got into a friendly Twitter argument with the MOOC expert and future academic legend Rolin Moe. I, following conventional wisdom,…
Grave dancers union?
Apparently, there's this big edtech conference going on in Florida. The Chronicle reports: MOOC fever is cooling, at least among campus information-technology administrators, according to the 2014 edition of the…
Superprofessors: Not actually all that super.
I have come to regret my frequent use of the word "superprofessor." Sure, it's fun to disaggregate it: "Super-" means over. "Super-" means superior. And in a sense that always…
As the learning management system turns…
"[T]he LMS does a very poor job at providing a lot of the learning technologies desired by faculty and students. There is no way that a monolithic LMS can keep…
“I’ll only buy a book for the way it looks, and then I stick it on the shelf again.”
The last Radiolab podcast I listened to was kind on insane. It featured Jad Abumrad's brother-in-law, who apparently wrote a really, really dense book about nihilism called In the Dust…
You’re not really paranoid if somebody actually is out to get you.
"My partners and I often fantasized about an end state in which professors would be free agents and education could become "unbundled" from the traditional campus setting and offered more…
