Now that CNN is broadcasting the documentary Ivory Tower (a film I saw in the cinema and reviewed last summer), I wanted to revisit the cost-of-college series I wrote earlier this year so that anyone interested in the questions Ivory Tower raises will have some alternative theories to chew over. Fortunately, I recently discovered a […]
Esprit de Course
Part of the professional test-design experience I’m trying to bring to MOOC development includes the generation of specific learning objectives (tied to overall course goals) that spell out exactly what students should know after being exposed to course materials such as lectures and reading. This type of detailed breakdown will be familiar not just to […]
Inside Higher Education Survey on Online Learning
In recent years, the publication Inside Higher Education has published a Survey on Faculty Attitudes Towards Technology, the most recent of which highlighted continuing skepticism over online learning in general. The summary article linked above provides a good abstract of the Insider Higher Education survey results, and reading that (and the detailed results) over, there […]
MOOCs: The First Blurb
When do you know your book has actually been published? When your parents tell you then can order it from Amazon and when the first blurb on it appears in the Library Journal: Amid the debate concerning the future of higher education, some of the more interesting voices are those that highlight the liberating […]
Making MOOCs
A number of people have asked about what’s it’s like being on the inside of the MOOC-development process, now that my recent Fellowship puts me in the middle of the action of course creation. While I could wax rhapsodic about the joy of working with smart and dedicated colleagues (vs. just consuming their output, as […]
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