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Successful parasites never kill their hosts.
“I think this really makes clear that we are not out to put universities out of business — have never been out to do that.” Coursera’s Daphne Koller said this to Marketplace last week after hiring...
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The (edtech) hippie revolt.
One of the strangest rabbit holes I’ve gone down as a result of all this edtech blogging is the association between early developments in computing and the counterculture of the 1960s. While I’m not...
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It’s not the grade, it’s the comments.
It’s ironic that of all the articles I’ve read recently that have tempted me to blog when I should be doing something else, it’s this one that’s gotten me to hit the “Add New Post” button. You see it’s...
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The flipped classroom is decadent and depraved.
“The flipped classroom model is becoming increasingly popular in higher education because of how it rearranges face-to-face instruction for professors and students, creating a more efficient and...
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Tell me how you teach and I will tell you who you are.
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825. The great problem I have maintaining my Twitter account is to keep the edtech...
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A Facebook education?
A few days ago, my friend Jill suggested that I come up with a catchy acronym for my new position on MOOCs. She suggested: @jhrees Superprofs’ Pedagogical Open Online Redistrib of Communication...
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A world without us.
By now, you should have “met” John Kuhlman. My correspondence with him began after my office hours piece, and has only gotten more interesting over time. One of the things he’s suggested to me that I...
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You do not need an LMS in order to teach with technology.
“…Silicon Valley’s reigning assumption: Anything that can be automated should be automated. If it’s possible to program a computer to do something a person can do, then the computer should do it. That...
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“And we can act like we come from out of this world and leave the real one...
Mark Cheathem has done me a great favor. He’s written the exact post that I would have written about this Junto interview about MOOCs with the historian Peter Onuf so that I don’t have to repeat...
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If the first MOOC sex scandal breaks during the next two weeks…
If the first MOOC sex scandal breaks during the next two weeks, I’m going to be very upset because I won’t have any time to cover it. I leave on Sunday for the Doing Digital History Summer Institute...
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