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“Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: May 19, 2015
  • Post category:Teaching
  • Post comments:1 Comment

At the risk of sounding like one of the several thousand Republicans now running for President, I want to make a slippery slope argument here: Point 1: The Monster Turns…

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Cut the professor a check and walk away.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: May 14, 2015
  • Post category:Academic Freedom/Learning Management Systems/Shared Governance/Teaching/Technology
  • Post comments:4 Comments

It's awesome that even though I'm down to something like a once-a-week posting schedule on this blog, people still tweet articles at me that are right up my alley.  Saves…

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MOOCs: Making the unacceptable acceptable since 2012.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: May 6, 2015
  • Post category:Academic Labor/MOOCs/Teaching
  • Post comments:1 Comment

I seem to find myself writing more and more about MOOCs again.  Some of this is due to the fact that I'm finishing a book chapter on them right now.  Some…

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Dear Superprofessors: The experiment is over.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 30, 2015
  • Post category:Academic Labor/MOOCs
  • Post comments:5 Comments

Dear Superprofessors, I know it has been a long time since I addressed you all directly, but there's been an important development in MOOCville that I wanted to be sure…

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Academic survival literature.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 27, 2015
  • Post category:Academia/Publications
  • Post comments:0 Comments

My version of academic survival literature is now up over at Vitae.  Warning: It's kind of depressing, but then again so is academia these days.

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Not ready to make nice.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 26, 2015
  • Post category:Academia/Economics/MOOCs
  • Post comments:2 Comments

There's an utterly reasonable comment on my last Arizona State/edX Global Fresman Academy post that deserves a response, so I figured I'd make it a post of its own.  Here's…

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Big fish eat little fish?

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 22, 2015
  • Post category:MOOCs/Teaching/Technology
  • Post comments:11 Comments

So edX and Arizona State are gonna offer MOOCs for credit.  Will the big fish eat the little fish? Actually, I think it will be more like the big fish…

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MOOCs: Not dead yet.

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 13, 2015
  • Post category:Monty Python/MOOCs
  • Post comments:5 Comments

I come here not to praise MOOCs, but to bury them. Or at the very least to get someone else to bonk them on the head so that we don't…

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“We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore.”

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: April 2, 2015
  • Post category:Academic Labor/Adjuncts/Technology
  • Post comments:4 Comments

Yippee!  Rebecca Schuman is back from maternity leave and writing at Slate again. This makes me happy because Rebecca is a) prone to say exactly what everybody else familiar with…

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Would somebody who shares my obsession with fridges please do me a favor?

  • Post author:Jonathan Rees
  • Post published: March 31, 2015
  • Post category:Refrigeration
  • Post comments:0 Comments

I spent most of a day talking to the team that made this BBC World Service radio documentary about refrigerators.  I even went to visit Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA…

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  • The Chemistry of Fear
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