When have you had online "aha" moments reacting to others?
For the first time in five years, my distance-learning course is asynchronous, without a live chat, and this poses an interesting challenge. Oh, heck, let me be honest: at some level I’m terrified at the prospect of an asynchronous-only class, because my teaching style relies heavily on the timed revelation of material and ideas, commonly in […]
The penultimate-policy fallacy (the reverse of "fighting the last war")
Florida’s universities are facing an interesting mix of budget pressures in the short term, with some possibility for substantial improvement in about 2-3 years but also a serious Sword of Damocles in a property-tax referendum in January and short-term misery if a state-level budget-reduction exercise is handled poorly (or illegally: by law, higher ed shouldn’t […]