“I want to break free.”
So apparently I've driven Michael Feldstein to drink. I, for one, think the quality of his post is worth the cost (but then again it's not my liver that's involved).…
In which I compare academia to the Hotel California…
"We are all just prisoners here, of our own device."
“I feel the earth move under my feet…”
Good old Phil Hill shot me his notes from Educause via Google+ last night because he knew I'd want to see them. My first reaction was that I wasn't touching…
Grave dancers union?
Apparently, there's this big edtech conference going on in Florida. The Chronicle reports: MOOC fever is cooling, at least among campus information-technology administrators, according to the 2014 edition of the…
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…
You’re not really paranoid if somebody actually is out to get you.
"My partners and I often fantasized about an end state in which professors would be free agents and education could become "unbundled" from the traditional campus setting and offered more…
“Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about de-evolution.”
I have to admit that I became much more fond of Clay Shirky the moment that I found out that he occasionally reads this blog (or at least the last…
DH as self-defense.
If you're interested in what I was doing for most of this month, you can read about it here. [Yes, I'm the goofball wearing a baseball cap in the back…
In which I compare professors to the Joad family…
This is actually the second time that I've compared professors to characters from Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. In the first post, I didn't know a darn thing about MOOCs…
