I just came across a useful article by William Fenton in PC Mag, reflecting on future trends in online education in light of happenings at the recent Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning-organized Learning With MOOCs II conference: “Online Education:…
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Notes on distance teaching and learning from UW-Madison
[updated 8-19 10:00am] [updated 8-18 9:00am] I’ve arrived and settled in at UW’s annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, from today to Thursday (Aug 12-14). I’ve come with a few hats on: at a general level, trying to glean…
The classroom sublime—In search of “the magic beyond the MOOCs”
I’m in the middle of reading David E. Nye’s historical treatment of a philosophical and cultural construct as it has evolved over time and place, and it’s got me thinking about online learning and the classroom in a slightly different…
MOOCs, SNOCs, DOCCs, and flipped classrooms: Thoughts from the first Yale Online Education Open Forum of 2014
On Monday last week, my colleague Dave Malinowski and I were able to sit in on Yale’s first Online Education Open Forum of the year. The event was live-tweeted by @Yale_Online (scroll down to Jan. 27 tweets), and videos of the presentations, such as those by…