From all the jails the Boys and Girls
Ecstatically leap—
Beloved only Afternoon
That Prison doesn’t keep
They storm the Earth and stun the Air,
A Mob of solid Bliss—
Alas—that
“Certainly anybody who has taught at the postsecondary level has had students
who regard school as an inconvenience and lead soap-opera lives, but fortunately
those students are not the norm. However, for Mr.
Don’t throw the past away.
You might need it some rainy day.
Dreams can come true again,
When everything old is new again.
—Peter Allen, “Everything Old Is New Again”
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“For children can accomplish the renewal of existence in a hundred unfailing
ways.”
— Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library
[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Illuminations/mV06rdTclagC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=
In his article, “Open-source Scholarship
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Open_Source_Scholarship.html]”,
Kris Shaffer argues that the open-source software model has lessons to offer the
academic community. Here, Kris demonstrates
Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.
Let me explain.
The open-source (or “free” or “libre”) software movement centers around a single
ideal: community ownership of software. Open-source software may or may not
As some are raised a Catholic or an atheist or a vegetarian, I was raised an
academic. The university always had about it a mystique, a cloud of mystery and
veneration. Lauded in
There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The
discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system
and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera. Forums
As teachers, we sometimes get tired of hearing our own voices. That’s why we
show movies, bring in guest speakers, and encourage discussion. Plus, we want to
bring in other views in
Victorian hubris opined, “All that can be invented has been invented
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell],” and so we entered the
20th century emboldened with a Titanic which was unsinkable,
The Challenge:Incorporate an open source community service project into every
class.
What happens to a student paper or project after the individual turns it in or
presents it in class? Where does
InA New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of
Constant
Change [http://www.newcultureoflearning.com/],Douglas Thomas and John Seely
Brown write, “Embracing Change means looking forward to what will
“It’s early days for online education,” declared a recent article in the
technology blogTechcrunch
[http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/72-of-professors-who-teach-online-courses-dont-think-their-students-deserve-credit/]
, with its typical giddiness about the changes that technology is poised
Here’s a little secret: when I started teaching people how to teach online, I
had no clue what I was doing.
It was 1998. I was a graduate student, without extensive computer
