The rhythm of the classroom.
"There's a tsunami coming," President John Hennessy of Stanford University told the New Yorker in 2012. That presumably explains his efforts to keep his university at the forefront of the…
MOOCs as torture.
White man's neo-liberal techno-fantasy. These are not the kind of words designed to get me to read a book, yet these are the terms that keep appearing in my Twitter…
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…
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…
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…
