Academic Freedom and the LMS
This morning, I delivered this paper in the Academic Freedom session at the West Coast Division of the American Historical Association's Conference in Las Vegas. Thanks to my friend Hank…
What happens if you’re the asshole?
There 's a Chronicle article from last week that has been stuck in my craw ever since I read it. You may have read it when it was free for…
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
Way back in 2012, when the new all "online-Ivy" Minerva, was known less formally as "the Minerva Project," the MIT Technology Review explained founder Ben Nelson's labor plan: Nelson says…
Cut the professor a check and walk away.
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…
How long will your course remain yours?
I am a fundamentally lazy person. That's a heckuva thing to admit in public, but really all it means is that if I don't like what I'm working on I…
“My class, my choice.”
That's the title of my latest post on the Academe blog. It's something of a retread of themes I've already explored on this blog, which means it's also the mandatory…
“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…
Superprofessors: Not actually all that super.
I have come to regret my frequent use of the word "superprofessor." Sure, it's fun to disaggregate it: "Super-" means over. "Super-" means superior. And in a sense that always…
“You are not alone.”
In which I report upon the other reason I spent last weekend on the other side of the state.
