My adventures teaching digital history.
I've had an absolutely terrible semester. The reason was/still is for one more week my fourth class. Like one of those self-destructive overworked academics who my friend Kate describes so…
“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…
“They’re back.”: MOOCs II (the sequel).
So MOOCs are back in the news. What's that you say? You thought they were dead? Try undead. Jeff Selingo digs them up with an excerpt from his new e-book…
How long will your course remain yours?
I am a fundamentally lazy person. That's a heckuva thing to admit in public, but really all it means is that if I don't like what I'm working on I…
The three-ring circus teaching paradigm.
I was a Reclaim Hosting devotee before I ever opened the account there that currently hosts this blog. The amazingly, revolutionary idea of faculty AND students maintain domains of their…
“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…
The MOOC revolution is indeed over.
The other day, after posting my last post here, I got into a friendly Twitter argument with the MOOC expert and future academic legend Rolin Moe. I, following conventional wisdom,…
