Does it really matter whether you take notes with a laptop or by hand?
A recent study on the merits of note-taking by hand (instead of using a laptop) further adds to the evidence that taking notes like our parents did is the…
Day 2 of DHSI 2014: the intersection of theory, games and pedagogy
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria is the place to be this week, if Digital Humanities is your thing. I have spent…
why the Digital Humanities are the next awesomest frontier (and it’s here)
On day 1 of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI 2014) I want to post a video produced by one of my students in the online…
The digital is the collective
A quick update as we process the experience of teaching via Google Hangout to a classroom of 60+ students: it cannot happen without a great team…
Suck it snowstorms – or how profjuliette got beamed into class
I spent a wonderful snowed-in week-end in Portland. Seriously, it was glorious. Portland does not believe in snowplows, so after the 3rd snowstorm, we had no…
Digital pedagogies – starting the conversation at UC Riverside
UC Riverside is part of the UC Online project. Of the current 23 online class in the UC roster, 4 are taught by UCR faculty and…
Welcome to the Future (of Higher Education)
If you are still wondering what an online class of the 21st century looks and feels like, I urge you to sign up NOW to Cathy…
The MOOC is dead, long live the MOOC
Much has been said about the so called “failure” of the MOOCs. I have written about this fallacy before on this blog, but the debate continues,…
The UC goes online!
The UC goes online! This is not new to anyone who knows me, but it is news to most. Now, not only is the LA Times…
Online ed en español
My first glimpse of what was possible in education came from Salman Khan. He showed me that if I had a good internet connection and a…
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