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 […]
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 […]
The Educational Technology Paradox – The Shallows
We just recently updated our kids’ tele-technology, letting the older boy purchase his first smartphone (an Android) and getting our younger one a device just for phoning and texting (no data). At 15 and 12 respectively, they’re a bit behind their peers with regard to personal tech. In addition to those phones, the family still […]
Mother Minerva Project
If the phrase “wrecking balls smashing through windows of classrooms” (with an accompanying image) is showing up in a popular mainstream magazine, that can only mean that another high-tech “alternative to college as we know it” option has come online, generating zeal and condemnation similar to the year-long roller coaster ride the MOOC story took […]
Learning by Doing
Well my break from blogging was not accompanied by a break from thinking about the subject of learning, especially that mix of real world and virtual learning experiences that might ultimately lead to a genuine rewriting of the rules of education. The first experience which triggered this line of thought came from a visit to […]
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