Why I recommended Canvas as an LMS
My role in the group evaluating LMS options ended yesterday, and I don’t know the recommendations of other individuals in the group, though I get sense of where we’re headed as an institution. For my part, after looking at Blackboard 9.1, Moodlerooms/joule, and Canvas, I recommended Canvas. We have a lot of transitions to plan […]
University of Florida faculty union head: Why the giant provost’s raise in the midst of budget cuts?
From John Biro, University of Florida chapter president of the United Faculty of Florida: Dear Colleague, Before the Administration imposes the draconian budget cuts it claims are unavoidable, it owes the faculty answers to these questions: 1. Why, instead of imposing a hiring freeze, is it continuing with extensive hiring? Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education […]
Thank you!
Among many others… Ms. Holscher Ms. Fried Ms. Brown/Ms. Bollinger Mr. Gere Mr. Schnitger Mr. Vassos Ms. Mook Ms. Thompson Mr. Harvey Mr. Knowton Prof. Jefferson Prof. Caplan Prof. Stuard Prof. Lane Prof. Spielman Prof. Weinstein Prof. Hamilton Prof. Davidson Prof. Pine Prof. Roelofs Prof. Park Prof. Katz Prof. Licht Prof. Engs Prof. Fine Prof. […]
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.
The different meanings of “public”
A brief gloss this morning on Bruce Baker’s take on whether (and the extent to which) charter schools are public schools: to historians this splitting of the meaning of “public” makes sense. As historians of education such as Michael Katz have noted, one of the consequences of the common-school movement in the 19th century was […]