Category Archives: Teaching
Do online classes suck?
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 Tagged Adaptive learning, adjunct instructor, assessment, Blended learning, brain surgeon, Distance education, E-learning, education, 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 7 Comments
Reddit, Course Discussion, and Badges
This semester I am using a community on Reddit to run my course. I’m certainly not the first to do this. Here, for example, is a subreddit for a Japanese language course, part of the whole University of Reddit project. Using existing social software for course management is also nothing new. The code that runs […]
Mind the MOOC?
Siva Vaidhyanathan has a new post up on the Chronicle blog that takes on the hype cycle around MOOCs. Which is a good thing. Experimenting with new ways learning online and off, particularly in higher ed, is more than a worthwhile venture. I think it probably does have a lot to do with the future […]
Posted in Teaching Tagged Board of Visitors, Distance education, Education in the United States, Khan Academy, MIT, mooc, online instruction, online open course, president, Siva Vaidhyanathan, SOOC, SUNY, United States, University of Virginia, University of Virginia Rector Helen Dragas, Visitors, wrong tool 5 Comments
Re-Presenting Badges