By John Warner. Next week I will be starting a new position as an adjunct instructor at College of Charleston.By John Warner. Following the incident that caused me to realize something that should’ve been obvious – all students deserve empathy – in order to take the next step in applying empathy to my teaching, I had to extend it to an unexpected person. Read more...By John Warner. I’ve been thinking about empathy, its role in life, and especially its role in teaching.By John Warner. Would you rather be safe or feel safe? By John Warner. Plagiarism is in the air, which makes me think about my experiences with students, detecting, responding to, and punishing the act. Read more...By John Warner. Please know, I come neither to bury nor to praise the lecture, but to contextualize it to my own experience, to reflect on its shifting role in my pedagogy, and perhaps spur others to do their own considering. Read more...
By Dan Butin. By now we know that MOOCs are not the final answer. Higher education will not be saved (or destroyed) by these massive open online courses that splashed into everyone’s consciousness about three years ago. Read more...
By Thomas Carey. We have seen considerable discussion in recent Inside Higher Ed articles about “Teaching Excellence”, whether at the individual or institutional levels. We know this concept can be problematic: a focus on Excellent Teaching can have negative side effects in promoting an individualistic and competitive environment. Read more...
By Michael Patrick Rutter. MOOCs in particular, brought big data and analytics to learning, and by extension, to higher education. More and more institutions now put out data, not just anecdotes, about everything: What their students are doing post graduation and their earnings; whether they enjoyed their college experience; and even how happy they are. Read more...
By Akiba Covitz. Now that the breathlessness/euphoria/panic of the early MOOC days is well behind us, let's use this shared space to figure out what our "beta" will actually look like. And by us, I mean those in higher education and the growing number of not-for-profits, for-profits, and foundations engaged in the space. Read more...
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