Cynthia Reeser takes a flipped approach to writing intensive courses
Jim Spain gives his thoughts on Quality Course Peer Reviews
C.B. Chastain establishes cohesiveness in online program development
George Justice shares his thoughts on Quality Course Peer Reviews
Kerri McBee-Black’s students learn with digital media
Dawn Heston leverages curricular consistency
Jason Aubrey uses Camtasia for refreshing his classes’ basic skills
I was watching a student make up an exam when he reached for the silicone wristband (or so I thought) on his left hand and with three taps activated a touchscreen display on his wrist. In this case, he was just checking the time, but “Smart Watches” are here. Joining them are camera pens and [...] Read more
Mizzou is eleven weeks into the semester and some of our Blackboard Grade Centers are showing signs of disarray. Not because we see instructors taking a carefree approach to assessment planning – even the most polished lesson plans succumb to the features of the Grade Center. Many of the issues we help to solve stem [...] Read more
Along with my colleague Garet Marling, I’m enrolled in the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) “eLearning and Digital Cultures,” taught by a team of instructors from the University of Edinburgh and offered via Coursera. The course started on January 28. Incidentally, January 28 was also the start of my first full-time week back at work [...] Read more
I just noticed a super-irritating consequence of poor planning that we were inflicting on you, our awesome readers. Until just a moment ago, all of our posts invited comments, but required logging in—but we provided no way of creating an account. Since I personally hate having to create an account just to post a comment, we [...] Read more
I’m now in my third week of my first MOOC, E-learning and Digital Cultures. It’s offered by the University of Edinburgh through Coursera. And boy howdy, is it a lot to digest! The course, which boasted 40,000 students in the first week, kicked off with tremendous energy. Discussion groups with hundreds of participants formed on [...] Read more
On campus recently, there’s been a lot of talk about a [very poorly edited] short film—EPIC 2020—that forecasts in its first few seconds nothing less than the utter destruction of higher education as we know it. Not within centuries or decades, but to be largely done with by the year 2020, whereupon Google buys up [...] Read more
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