Grave dancers union?
Apparently, there's this big edtech conference going on in Florida. The Chronicle reports: MOOC fever is cooling, at least among campus information-technology administrators, according to the 2014 edition of the…
Superprofessors: Not actually all that super.
I have come to regret my frequent use of the word "superprofessor." Sure, it's fun to disaggregate it: "Super-" means over. "Super-" means superior. And in a sense that always…
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…
You’re not really paranoid if somebody actually is out to get you.
"My partners and I often fantasized about an end state in which professors would be free agents and education could become "unbundled" from the traditional campus setting and offered more…
“Every man, woman and mutant on this planet shall know the truth about de-evolution.”
I have to admit that I became much more fond of Clay Shirky the moment that I found out that he occasionally reads this blog (or at least the last…
“Nothing is over until we decide it is!”
This afternoon, I got into a Twitter conversation with Mike Caulfield: https://twitter.com/holden/status/506894579757359104 Read the whole exchange and it may look like an argument, but I've actually met Mike before so…
High Anxiety: Minerva edition.
If you had seen the first draft of the essay I turned in for the Baffler, you would have seen two distinct arguments. The first was the argument about being…
Chalk one off the bucket list.
I have been published by the Baffler. The subject is the Minerva Project and thanks to really intense, fantastic editing I'm very happy with the result.
Lepore/Christensen revisited.
Here at the end of the summer, I wanted to revisit something from the beginning of the summer: the great Jill Lepore/Clayton Christensen smackdown of June 2014. Why? Well, I'm…
No myth.
This is #2 on Josh Kim's list of 8 Myths about MOOCs: Myth #2 - The people involved in MOOCs think that open online education will replace traditional higher education:…
