Online education is an accommodation to life’s realities. For years I denied that online education was in many ways inferior to physical campuses. But, now…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: teaching
Back to school means back to Blackboard. My frustration with most learning management system (LMS) platforms is well known. The administration of a class, depending…
Back to school means back to the battles with Blackboard (I’ve posted on that plenty of times). Even if BB was the perfect learning management…
Notice that technical courses and courses that were “automated” had higher completion rates. New study of low MOOC completion rates | Inside Higher Ed The…
Pittsburgh TechFest was Saturday, June 1, 2013. For me, this is like going to a county fair or theme park… minus the junk food I…
Can computer software evaluate student papers? The debate has waged for about three years in higher education, and lately it has taken on a new…
Computers have changed writing education, but many writing teachers wonder if technology is now turning into a threat. Too many politicians, administrators, and non-profit foundations…
As readers of my blogs know, I’m never opposed to using technology when it is an effective tool. I am opposed to the blind embrace…
I have been contemplating if online learning differs by discipline, especially after reading a few studies on the topic. One of the studies (Xu &…
People have asked me (okay, two people) what “Poet Ponders” is meant to be. What is my purpose? I now will attempt to clarify what…