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The MOOCs that (Almost) Ate UVA
As I’ve confessed recently, I’m not very good at predicting the future of technology. I missed wireless and YouTube, and there were nights when I had serious doubts about this whole “world wide web”...
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Inconvenient Truths about MOOCs
Are you tired yet of all the hype and counter-hype about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? Since my earlier post about the role of distance learning in the dismissal of UVA President Teresa...
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Google Course Builder — E-Learning, Google-Style
Last week, Google announced the release of Google Course Builder, an open source tool for building your own online courses. Before this, if you wanted to teach a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), you...
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The Final Last Word on MOOCs
I hadn’t planned to write another post on massive online open courses, but John Drummond posted a link to a “scathing” review of Sebastian Trun’s introductory statistics class that grabbed my attention...
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Three Reasons MOOCs Should Include Digital Humanities Projects
Of all the things Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have to offer, their potential to spread digital humanities work beyond a single campus, library, or museum excites me most. By incorporating the...
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Tales from the Creative Destruction Front
An image of the Teachers Pay Teachers website where teachers sell their lesson plans to other K-12 educators. App Bullying and Kindergarten Teachers If I had 99 cents for every time someone in my...
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What We Can Learn from Bryn Mawr’s Online Learning Experiment
The Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon is a project for creating and using online learning modules as part of college courses. As I’ve written several times (link, link, link) for this blog,...
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E-Learning According to Time Magazine
The Time cover. You can also find this post on W&M’s E-Learning Blog. I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of the “issues” coverage offered in Time‘s recent cover article on online education,...
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Thoughts from a MOOC Pioneer
A screen capture from Scott E. Page’s MOOC. Recently Scott E. Page did a presentation at the University of Wisconsin Center for Educational Innovation where he reviewed his experience teaching his...
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MOOC(h): How MOOCs Will Help the Rest of Us
We have written a lot about MOOCs on this blog, and if you are professor who teaches small lecture or seminar courses, you might not care. I understand! You have existing responsibilities and it can...
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Just a Little Apocalyptic Prognostication on a Tuesday Morning
Some original Luddites in an 1812 engraving. They’re trashing a mechanical loom because it and similar industrial machines replaced human workers. I often get inspiration for these articles from...
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Conversations About E-Learning: Three Ways to Get to Wear the Funny Hat
Imagine yourself in this hat before using discussion stoppers when talking about e-learning. I remember reading a blog post at some point about the way Zappos, the online retailer with the great...
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A View of the Future: From MOOC to MOOR
Four kinds of knowledge graphic source. The MOOC will soon die. Long live the MOOR: (Via MOOCtalk) Since the beginning, I’ve felt that one of the biggest contributions of MOOC mania is a richer view...
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Using Computers for Teaching, 1967 to 2013
A girl at Brentwood Elementary in Palo Alto using a “light-pen” to complete learning exercises in school in 1967. Stanford professors Pat Suppes and Dick Atkinson once hoped that their...
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Blinded by the MOOCs: Three Alternatives
Sometime within the last two years or so, the term “MOOC” (massive online open course) has entered the lexicon of academics across the country. For some folks, MOOCS have become synonymous with...
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“Communities of Inquiry”: The Anti-MOOCs
Conversations about e-learning at William & Mary are on the rise. Rachel, Jamison, and I have been working with two Arts & Sciences faculty who are in the process of developing the College’s...
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