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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, education, Educational psychology, Educational Technology, FTE, 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

A farewell to academia

By alex | Published: 11/21/2008

There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, […]

Posted in Teaching | Also tagged Alternative education, Council of Independent Colleges, Criticism of college and university rankings, Eleanor Duckworth, General, intercollegiate sports programs, Ivy League, mid-career professor, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Pragmatists, professor, Teaching, University administration | 3 Comments

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