By Patrick Bigsby. I was a deer in the headlights the first time a student attacked me with words online. A few weeks into my first digital course, a student, convinced that his thesis was both present (it wasn’t) and effective (nope), became very angry with me over his poor assignment grade. Read more...
20 septembre 2015
Stop Feeding the Trolls!
Of MOOCs and Metrics
By Akiba Covitz. As I and others have written in this blog recently, we can learn many things about learning from MOOCs. We can also learn many things about management in higher education from the people who have made possible the massively scaled aspects of learning in MOOCs. Read more...Community-Engaged Research
By Barbara Osborn. Students "in the field" as part of the author's course; they were participating in a Lunar Day parade for API Equality-LA, an advocacy group in the Greater Los Angeles area for the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community for the fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and marriage equality. Read more...Overworked and Underpaid: The Labor and Laborers of the Writing Classroom
By John Warner. Last week I went to my first ever academic conference,[1] the meeting of the Carolina Writing Program Administrators[2]. Read more...
To "Quit Lit" or not to "Quit Lit." What Was the Question?
By John Warner. I am generally agnostic about the genre. I do not object to its existence any more than I would object to any category of personal writing, and I’d be lying if I hadn’t occasionally indulged in the composition of a version of my own quit lit piece in my head over the years. Read more...
CBE, PLA, and Residency Requirements
By Matt Reed. How do residency requirements work for competency-based programs?
Modern States' recent announcements got me thinking about that. More...
Details, Details…
By Matt Reed. The entire higher-ed-policy Twitterverse was abuzz Saturday morning with news of the release of Education Department data on the performance of colleges across America. More...
