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Why USF is moving from Blackboard to Canvas
Note: the following is intended to be funny. Whether or not it is, to you, it bears a much closer relationship to how I feel about content management systems than it does to the reality of Blackboard 9.1. Or if you are working on a Blackboard campus, you should hope so. Earlier this year, I […]
Tenure application: perspectives from the almost-grizzled reviewer
Yesterday, my college had its first “T&P brown bag” discussion for tenure-earning faculty (tenure-earning being the local equivalent of tenure-track outside Florida). My teaching schedule conflicts with the discussion time, but I had been asked to be a participant as a former member of the college’s tenure and promotion committee. While or perhaps because tenured […]
Federal regulations are not generally written to have pilots and adjustments
Over the past week, different groups are maneuvering around the writing of regulations for Title II of the Higher Education Act, which focuses on teacher education. Education Week has been covering the lobbying that’s developed after the breakdown of attempted stakeholder negotiations over the regulations, with articles last Wednesday on a coalition of higher-education organizations ((Disclosure: […]
Universities and MOOCs and zombies
It’s the last day of MOOCMOOC, or Hybrid Pedagogy‘s massive open online course about massive open online courses. I was one of 591 registered participants, which made it less massive than the largest lecture classes at universities, yet still larger than any formal class I have ever taken. Several posts from earlier this week were […]
O brave new university, / That has such MOOCs in’t!
As we head into the second half of Hybrid Pedagogy’s MOOC MOOC, I thought I’d talk about the practices, principles, benefits of MOOCs using some of my favorite characters in all of pop culture. The basic principle: the ultimate learner-centered environment The most important thing to understand about Massive Open Online Courses is that they […]