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Affordances of MOOCs
There’s a very cleverly-constructed MOOC about MOOCs this week, MOOC MOOC, and while my days are going to be crazy this week workwise, I’m trying to dip in as much as I can to get a handle on the chaotic discussion. At the end of the second day Athabaska University MOOC organizer/connectivist George Siemens wrote, […]
The revolution in university… extension programs
Last summer and this, my daughter and I have been slowly working our way through the online lectures in Leonard Susskind’s second trimester of PHY 25 (The Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics). ((At least according to Amazon, Basic Books is publishing a book written from all six extension courses in early 2013.)) We just finished the […]
Nation of patriots, nation of fandoms
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s schooling blog Sunday, Pelham City superintendent Jim Arnold explains his distrust of the Common Core, referring to old patriot Thomas Jefferson: Common Core is a standardized national curriculum. Why is this problematic? From an historical context, a centralized school curriculum serves the goals of totalitarian states. Jefferson warned us about that. […]
Lessons of Sullivan’s reinstatement
“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”–Alice in Wonderland. Congratulations to the University of Virginia, which restored some hope to higher education today with the reinstatement of Teresa Sullivan as president. In turn, I hope people will understand how local these events were, despite being interpreted […]
Helen Dragas and the Bérubé test of reasonableness
Inability of some in high office to admit they are wrong, even in face of overwhelming evidence, is at heart of matter at UVA. – Larry Sabato Everyone has myside bias, the tendency to keep believing in one’s prior views and filter available evidence through those views. The question of whether discussion among people with differing […]