Tag Archives: Online Teaching

Shifted Pace

By alex | Published: 6/23/2009
Got an IM from someone checking in a few weeks back. He had gathered that my work had “changed pace.” I wondered what that meant, and he suggested that I had slowed down. Now, I am naturally lazy–a trait I am trying to more actively cultivate, but I gather he had figured that because I haven’t [...]
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What do you mean, “open”?

By alex | Published: 6/18/2009
From very early on in my university teaching career, I’ve tried to make the materials in my courses openly accessible. This started by simply publishing my syllabi to the web, and has evolved to opening up all (or almost all) of the materials in the course, and more recently accepting non-registered participants into courses. That [...]
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Dealing out the Uni

By alex | Published: 3/20/2009
Howard Rheingold recently tweeted something that plugged into a question I have been mulling over for a while: If I taught a truncated online version of Social Media CoLab for 6 weeks, no accreditation, what would students pay? In particular, I tried (somewhat unsuccessfully) to relocate a small grad seminar to the local Panera Bread. I was [...]
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Breeze & Transparency online

By alex | Published: 4/6/2008
I am engaged in a three-week online seminar with other online teachers at Quinnipiac, talking about teaching and learning online. Since this week I we are talking about transparency, I figured I should put my contribution up here on my blog as well. So, here is the short (11 minute) presentation in Breeze–it opens in [...]
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