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HypeX: What edX can and can’t do
The joint Harvard-MIT venture announced today has significant money ($60m), reputational credibility, and a coherent argument that has been missing from other massive online open course (MOOC) systems: that aggregation of thousands of students in a course can speed up research in higher education learning.
Bernie Machen #fail
Steven Salzberg says it better than I could, on Forbes. Since 2008, President Bernie Machen and Provost Joe Glover have repeatedly taken bad news from the legislature and made it palpably worse for UF. ((Reminder: This is my opinion as an individual faculty member and does not necessarily represent the views of my department colleagues […]
Reports on college student learning leave out passion
Thursday’s David Brooks column talks simple-mindedly about wanting colleges to be held accountable for student learning, somewhat misstates a key claim of Academically Adrift, and writes in a generally David Brooksish style, which should only be alarming if you were expecting a Krugman column. From my position deep in the territory controlled by the Southern Association […]
Kale chips and the LMS
For the last three Thursday mornings, I’ve sat through presentations by a combination of developers and sales teams from three different learning management systems (or LMSs), since USF’s IT department wanted to look at the institution’s choices and asked faculty and students from around the university to help organize an evaluation of different LMSs. ((The […]
What my department colleagues and students are doing on #dayofhighered
Lee Bessette has called for a public description of an ordinary day in higher education today, a Day of Higher Ed. I firmly believe in this type of descriptive transparency, so here goes, in a way: I will skip my activities as a chair today, other than noting that my week is looking like the […]