What If Some Faculty Don’t Want to Come Back to Campus?
I don’t want to do anything to deny that there is going to be an awful lot of suffering in the weeks ahead, but it does appear that the end…
Apples and oranges.
When I was growing up, a copy of the New York Times was on the breakfast table every morning. Even though this is why I feel culturally compelled to maintain…
What I’ve been doing lately other than blogging…
I wrote this for our local paper, the Pueblo Chieftain, with the title "New Education, Same CSU-Pueblo." I learned today they published it earlier this month, but I missed it…
The all-faculty university.
JP and I wrote about Western Governors University in Education Is Not an App. Therefore, when I heard that the Inspector General's Office at the Department of Education had asked…
More mistakes from my first semester teaching the US History survey online.
My first semester as an online instructor is almost over. Who knows where the time goes? Curating a respectable online survey course experience comes with a lot of responsibility. In…
My favorite mistake.
When I decided to teach online for the first time this semester, I was determined to throw out my old survey class and rebuild a new one from the…
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…
How do you build a respectable all-online US History survey class?, Part II.
Part I is here. So I'm well into writing my all-online US History survey course for this fall now. Oddly enough, after having spent so much time planning how I…
This is how it feels to use BlackBoard for the first time…
https://twitter.com/toongif/status/693252310089072640 "The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious," reads a quote from Steve Jobs in Walter Isaacson's authorized biography. "People know how…
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…
