This is a story about two hemispheres of graduate school: teaching and
dissertating. It is a story about how those two parts sometimes cohere but are
more often rendered in sharp relief. It’
Andrew Shaw’s “The College Experience: A Modern-Day Paddy West
[http://www.hastac.org/blogs/andrew-shaw/2014/02/16/college-experience-modern-day-paddy-west]
?” demonstrates the value of asking undergraduates to prepare and publish
assignments. As an
Hybrid pedagogy does not just describe an easy mixing of on-ground and online
learning, but is about bringing the sorts of learning that happen in a physical
place and the sorts of learning
As teachers who consider the whole world a virtual classroom and community, many
of us sometimes mistakenly assume that if we create space for representing the
“voice” of the marginalized, all will be
Innovate: French innover, from Old French, from Latin innovāre, innovāt-, to
renew : in-, intensive pref.; in- + novāre, to make new (from novus, new). ~
adapted from OED online [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/innovate]
I
InBeing and Time, Martin Heidegger writes with surprising brevity, “Temporality
temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.”
While we may speak and write of a distinct past,
“Learners are classified based on their patterns of interaction with video
lectures and assessments, the primary features of most MOOCs to date.”—Rene F.
Kizilcec, et al.
[http://www.stanford.edu/~cpiech/bio/
It’s evening. An Irish pub in Louisville, Colorado. Fish and chips. Beer. A game
of soccer on the TV. I’m sitting down with one of my faculty to revisit the
department’
Coursera [http://www.coursera.org/]is silly. Educational technology news has
been all a-flutter over the last few months about the work that Coursera is
doing to bring higher education into the open.
MOOCs are a red herring. The MOOC didn’t appear last week, out of a void,
vacuum-packed. The MOOC hasbeen around for years [http://mooc.ca/], biding its
time. Still, the recent furor
Early web commenters referred to the Internet as a primitive, lawless place like
the “Wild West.” Plenty still needs to change to make certain parts of the web
more civil and useful, but
