“Yeah, a storm is threatening my very life today.”
So I got to meet Audrey Watters yesterday. Her talk here in Madison at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Summer Institute was (as you might expect) pretty intense. I highly recommend…
He lost me at “scale.”
I don't know the historian Steve Mintz, but I do know he's a pioneer in putting all kinds of historical resources online. This means he was doing what we now…
“Mine.”
People harsh on lectures. For example, while those of us in North America were sleeping last night, my friend Kate noted: I’ve loved the experience of listening to people who…
“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…
Time has come today.
Long before most of us ever heard of MOOCs, I was taking cheap potshots at online education (and my personal all-time favorite). A lot of those cheap potshots were accurate…
“Would you mind telling me whose brain I did put in?”
At the risk of sounding like one of the several thousand Republicans now running for President, I want to make a slippery slope argument here: Point 1: The Monster Turns…
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…
MOOCs: Making the unacceptable acceptable since 2012.
I seem to find myself writing more and more about MOOCs again. Some of this is due to the fact that I'm finishing a book chapter on them right now. Some…
Big fish eat little fish?
So edX and Arizona State are gonna offer MOOCs for credit. Will the big fish eat the little fish? Actually, I think it will be more like the big fish…
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…
