BYOB (Be Your Own Boss).
You might not know this about me (as I don't write about it much here), but I'm Co-President of the Colorado Conference of the American Association of University Professors (or…
“I don’t need your civil war.”
All us historians let out a loud sigh when we read that story about Republican Senator Ron Johnson wanting to replace us all with Ken Burns videos. It's an incredibly…
MOOC madness takes its toll.
It seems as if it's been a very long time since I've written anything about MOOCs. To be honest, I've been avoiding clicking on MOOC links entirely in order to…
“We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore.”
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…
What do Salman Khan and Scott Walker have in common?
Q. What do Salman Khan and Scott Walker have in common? A. Neither one of them seems to think that teachers work particularly hard. Let me explain: Like all good…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
