Modeling manners online
I have been teaching online over the last couple of years, and the classes are getting bigger. This means – more students, more TAs, more google hangouts,…
D-day minus 6
New Year’s eve Shmew Years eve… Between today and the beginning of the new online class on January 5th I have 1 proposal due, 1 talk to give, 60 conference…
The end of front-row bias
The affordance of the physical classroom dictates that there must be a front row. No matter what type of student you are, on day 1 of class,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Juliette Levy 