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: […]
Non-hurricane day
What happens when there is a hurricane day at the start of a semester? I know part of the answer, and we’ll find out the rest of the week.
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 […]
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, […]