MOOC madness takes its toll.
It seems as if it's been a very long time since I've written anything about MOOCs. To be honest, I've been avoiding clicking on MOOC links entirely in order to…
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…
“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…
The tsunami has been postponed because MOOCs are a lousy product.
Before Kevin Carey came along, Stanford President John Hennessy was doing most of the heavy lifting as the bad guy in the MOOC chapter of the online education book that…
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…
