The mushy MOOC middle.
"Few people would now be willing to argue that massive open online courses are the future of higher education. The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling…
“Our new Avocado Green Kelvinator looks good enough to eat.”
I've been working on the illustrations for Refrigerator tonight (out 9/15!) and found this one from 1966, which is so beautiful that it makes me want to cry: Alas, I…
The kind of proposal I make after being forced to teach four courses for a semester.
My latest for Vitae is here. Since I've already gotten some Twitter pushback for this essay, let me offer up some additional explanation. Have you ever noticed that when you…
Teach AND perish.
A little earlier today, some nice folks at the Chronicle (not the same ones who occasionally pay me money to write stuff) temporarily opened up a new locked article called…
“The academic equivalent of a corporate campaign.”
The Northern New Mexico College Study Group remain my heroes.
But The Man CAN bust our music.
As a comparatively old person, I think in albums. No song from the second side of "Abbey Road" sounds right to me unless the whole thing is played in order.…
Happy MOOC Year (or maybe not)!
While most people spend the start of the New Year looking forward, I've been looking back at my old MOOC posts today, trying to think of something new to say…
“How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market”
With a title like that, it should surprise you not at all that I get quoted in this Boston Globe story. In fact, the reporter did a good enough job…
Remember MOOCs?
https://twitter.com/sivavaid/status/542102763564724224 Who wants a writing update? Well, you're going to get one anyway. JP and I split up the chapters of Education Is Not an App about a month ago,…
My adventures teaching digital history.
I've had an absolutely terrible semester. The reason was/still is for one more week my fourth class. Like one of those self-destructive overworked academics who my friend Kate describes so…
