Tag Archives: education

Do online classes suck?

By alex | Published: 12/8/2012

Before arriving at my current posting, I would have thought the idea that online classes compared poorly to their offline counterparts was one that was slowly and inevitably fading away. But a recent suggestion by a colleague that we might tell incoming freshmen that real students take traditional meatspace courses and those just interested in [...]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Adaptive learning, adjunct instructor, assessment, Blended learning, brain surgeon, Distance education, E-learning, Educational psychology, Educational Technology, FTE, good teacher, Instructional design, instructional designer, Learning, Learning platform, Massive open online course, online classes, online course, online courses, online degree, online education, online fishbowl, online instructors, online program, Online Teaching, Pedagogy, Phoenix, Teacher, United States, University of Phoenix | 5 Comments

Badges: The Skeptical Evangelist

By alex | Published: 3/6/2012

I have been meaning to find a moment to write about learning badges for some time. I wanted to respond to the last run of criticisms of learning badges, and the most I managed was a brief comment on Alex Reid’s post. Now, with the announcement of the winners of this year’s DML Competition, there [...]

Posted in Research, Teaching | Also tagged advisor, Alex Reid, assessment, Badge, Barry Joseph, computer technology, Department of Education, DML, Educational psychology, Evaluation, Evaluation methods, Evergreen State College, Formative assessment, genetic engineering, Georg Simmel, Heraldic badge, Heraldry, Herb Schiller, important applications, Learning, Mitch Resnick, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, potential tool, Symbols, Thought | 8 Comments

Rank Teacher Ranking

By alex | Published: 2/24/2012

There has been a little discussion on an informal email list at my university about the Op-Ed by Bill Gates in the New York Times that argues against public rankings of teachers. It’s a position that in some ways constrains the Gates Foundation’s seeming interest in quantifying teaching performance. It led to questions we have [...]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Alternative education, assessment, Bill Gates, Education reform, Educational philosophy, Educational psychology, Gates Foundation, higher education, measurement, merit, Teacher, Teaching, the New York Times | 1 Comment

IRBs and Clean Secrets

By alex | Published: 12/8/2011

There’s a comment piece I wrote that appears in today’s issue of the journal Nature that talks a bit about the role of open data and IRBs. But I worry that perhaps in the number of iterations it made before publication the main point got muddied a bit. So here it is: Funding agencies and [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged Academia, Academic Publishing, Experimental design, IRB protocols, IRB-approved protocol, Protocol, Scholarly Communication, Science, the journal Nature | 3 Comments

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