Think different.
I've been an Apple user since the early-1980s. I don't think I qualify as a fanatic since I haven't bought anywhere near everything the company ever put out. Heck, I…
Both sides now.
Way back during the "Year of the MOOC" my friend Jonathan Poritz in our math department wanted me to turn the predecessor of this blog into a book. "No way,"…
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…
Between a rock and a hard place.
I became fascinated by Ben Nelson's Minerva Project long before I became fascinated with MOOCs. You can see the product of that fascination in my one (and so far only)…
“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).…
LMS = AOL.
Who remembers America Online? No, I don't mean the nondescript media company that's still barely around today. I'm talking about the dominant player in dial-up Internet way back in the…
“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…
Mandatory use of learning management systems?
Ever since I wrote that article for Academe a few months ago, I've been arguing that mandatory use of learning management systems is the future of higher education. Our employers…
“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…
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…
