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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 […]
Equality of educational opportunity in a world with zombies, werewolves, and vampires
In my class this summer, I inserted two slots in the schedule that I labeled vaguely, “Stump the prof.” In the first week, students asked what I meant by that, and I explained that twice in the semester, they not only could determine the agenda but direct what role I would have. I gave them […]
For public schools, “artistes” need not apply
A few weeks ago, my summer class and I discussed teacher evaluations–the first paper for the class uses value-added measures in teacher evaluations as the case under discussion. ((I am teaching the schools-and-society course in a six-week session: it’s intense, and because of that the class is smaller than the ten-week sections we are offering […]
Books on college teaching: The get-in-it-and-drive list
Over on her blog, Rebecca Onion distills her tweeps’ recommendations for readings on (mostly college) teaching, and her list includes classics from McKeachie’s Teaching Tips to Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do. I like almost everything on the list a great deal, but I would not recommend that a teaching assistant (or faculty member) […]
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 […]