Worth Reading: Use of adjuncts and one challenge of online education
By Phil Hill. There is a fascinating essay today at Inside Higher Ed giving an inside, first-person view of being an adjunct professor.
2015 is my 25th year of adjunct teaching. In the fall I will teach my 500th three-credit college course. I have put in many 14- to 16-hour days, with many 70- to 80-hour weeks. My record is 27 courses in one year, although I could not do that now.
I want to share my thoughts on adjunct teaching. I write anonymously to not jeopardize my precarious positions. How typical is my situation?
The whole essay is worth reading, as it gives a great view into what the modern university and the implications of using adjuncts. More...
LMS Is The Minivan of Education (and other thoughts from #LILI15)
By Phil Hill. During yesterday’s K-20 learning platform panel at IMS Global’s Learning Impact Leadership Institute (the panel that replaced the LMS Smackdown of year’s past), Scott Jaschik started the discussion off by asking “what is the LMS?”. As I have recently complained about our Saturn Vue that replaced a Chrysler Town & Country, the answer I provided was that the LMS is the minivan of education. More...
The ETV Personalized Learning Series: What We Hope It Contributes
By Michael Feldstein and Phil Hill. It seems like there has been an avalanche of high-profile books about the future of education lately—Kevin Carey’s The End of College, Jeff Selingo’s College Unbound, Anya Kamenetz’s The Test, Michael Crow’s Designing the New American University, and Fareed Zacharia’s In Defense of a Liberal Education, to name a few. More...
Release of e-Literate TV Series on Personalized Learning
By Phil Hill. Today we are thrilled to release the initial episodes in our new e-Literate TV series on “personalized learning”. In this series, we examine how that term, which is heavily marketed but poorly defined, is implemented on the ground at a variety of colleges and universities. What does it really mean in practice? What problem is intended to solve? And how well is it working. More...
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Discover Emerging Trends in Online Higher Education
By Ian Quillen. Prospective online students may encounter project-based learning, gamification and live course sessions.
As online education enrollment growth slows, programs are exploring new formats to appeal to students. More...
Radford University introduces MBA program online delivery
By Stefanie Botelho. Radford University's College of Business and Economics announced the launch of online delivery for their MBA program. This initiative will make higher education even more accessible for students who wish to secure their master's degree in approximately two years. More...
Knowledge is Not a Tree
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Knowledge is Not a Tree
overeducated_alligator, Metafilter, 2015/05/07
Short post from Metafilter illustrating how we're advancing conceptually: "Piggydb and Oinker.me: Non-hierarchical information tools from Japanese designer Daisuke Morita. Piggydb is a Java-based open-source personal knowledge manager, similar to a wiki. More...