“With or without you.”
So it appears that Western Governors University [WGU] is being scrutinized by the federal government about the role of faculty in its competency-based online offerings. Here's the key part of…
“You can’t always get what you want.”
There's a moment in the first segment of the 60 Minutes piece on Apple that ran last Sunday that I found kind of amazing. It's in an exchange between Charlie…
Digital History Projects – Fall 2015.
These are the links to the projects from my first Introduction to Digital History class this semester: Colorado State Hospital Ludlow Massacre The Mineral Palace Mines of the Colorado Fuel…
What if the adventure chooses you?
I was reading those e-Literate guys, Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill, write about personalized learning at edSurge the other day. Oddly enough, I was writing my own little account of…
Worker’s Control in Academia.
There I go, bringing David Montgomery into it again...
Call me Carl.
https://twitter.com/laurapasquini/status/655158892532371456 Like a lot of people on my timeline, I got back from #dlrn15 yesterday. Unlike a lot of people on my timeline, I spent a lot of my time…
The death of expertise.
A few days ago, a Twitter acquaintance of mine – the gloriously cynical Professor Enron – wrote out a Twitter rant that I've had trouble shaking. I don't really feel…
How do you build a respectable all-online US History survey class?, Part I.
On Friday, Chronicle Vitae published an essay I wrote in which I argued that tenured professors ought to start teaching online (especially if they hate the idea), since they have…
“All you fascists are bound to lose.”
I have a confession to make: I've been blogging for so long now that I'm starting to regret more than a few of my older posts. Take this one, for…
“Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.”
I wrote about the flipped classroom, porcine suicide and Taylor Swift for the Kernel magazine's back-to-school issue. MOLB readers may also like Audrey Watters' article on the "MOOC revolution that…
