How do you build a respectable all-online US History survey class?, Part II.
Part I is here. So I'm well into writing my all-online US History survey course for this fall now. Oddly enough, after having spent so much time planning how I…
History professors and technology: Why can’t we be friends?
A few days ago, blogger and podcaster extraordinaire John Fea artfully summarized an AHA Perspectives piece about why the number of history majors has dropped nationwide: 1. The 2008 recession…
“I always feel like somebody’s watching me.”
My old friend Historiann has a post up today that really deserves every professor's attention. The subject is a new-fangled productivity measuring tool now being implemented at Baa Ram U.:…
What happens if you’re the asshole?
There 's a Chronicle article from last week that has been stuck in my craw ever since I read it. You may have read it when it was free for…
Both sides now.
Way back during the "Year of the MOOC" my friend Jonathan Poritz in our math department wanted me to turn the predecessor of this blog into a book. "No way,"…
This is how it feels to use BlackBoard for the first time…
https://twitter.com/toongif/status/693252310089072640 "The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious," reads a quote from Steve Jobs in Walter Isaacson's authorized biography. "People know how…
My manifesto (at least for this year).
This morning, Hybrid Pedagogy published an essay that I've been working on for almost a year now. It started life as a blog post here. Then I took it to…
“With or without you.”
So it appears that Western Governors University [WGU] is being scrutinized by the federal government about the role of faculty in its competency-based online offerings. Here's the key part of…
“You can’t always get what you want.”
There's a moment in the first segment of the 60 Minutes piece on Apple that ran last Sunday that I found kind of amazing. It's in an exchange between Charlie…
