Should a university use data-mining techniques to shape courses? College Degrees, Designed by the Numbers – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education College administrators,…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Teaching
Pedagogy and general teaching with (or without) modern technology.
What does it mean to “teach” an online course? This question might be the most serious question facing colleges and universities as they migrate more…
Is it a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) if there is a fee for credits? What should such fees be? UW to offer fee-based courses…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley July 9, 2012 Deadline August 2012 Issue The Teacher’s Pet: Computers Grade Homework While technology long ago replaced human grading of…
There are colleges and universities moving towards 120-semester-unit bachelor’s degrees, down from 132 or more in many cases. Others are seeking ways to offer “accelerated”…
I teach at a small regional and it is making some positive moves to foster online and traditional courses that are compelling for students. We…
While I am a proponent of online education, some “market realities” are starting to concern me. Education is unlike most products in several ways, but…
This fall, I resorted to using “anti-plagairism” tools for the first time in at least six years. One reason for this is that what I…
One of the questions facing colleges and universities is “Can Anything Be Taught Online?” The simple answer is, no. But some of almost every topic…
This story explains some of my doubts about online education. It is not online education that concerns me, but the poor oversight and administration that…