Disruptive innovation in the academy by any other words
In the article linked below, The Economist makes the case for MOOCs (massive open online courses) as disruptive innovation. Nothing could be closer to the truth.…
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,…
What we talk about when we talk about online education
by Juliette Levy, Ava Arndt & Steve Anderson This summer, we taught an online class (Introduction to Latin American History – Hist75V). We did this while…
From MOOC to SMOC?
The last couple of weeks have been rife with debate over the fate of MOOCs (see here http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCs-May-Not-Be-So-Disruptive/140965/; http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/the-pro-mooc-coalition-cannot-hold/; http://on.wsj.com/TFoLhl) . Will they or won’t they survive?…
The rewards of online teaching – and its costs
I just got the teaching evaluations from my university’s Registrar’s office for a class I taught in summer sessions. The course was a three-week summer session…
Trending now: Online ed bashing
And the online ed bash-fest continues, but it has a hard time finding traction when confronted with real-life results and with an informed readership. Either the…
The “vivid nightmare” of online education – NOT.
In this recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rob Jenkins describes online education train as bearing down on him in a destructive path. What…
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