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3 mars 2019

Friday Fragments - February 14, 2019

By Matt Reed. I read with interest the Chronicle blurb on “pop-up” courses, which are one-credit classes offered at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  Students can take individual short courses, or stack them into three-credit bundles. More...

3 mars 2019

Friday Fragments - February 22, 2019

By Matt Reed. This piece is written about research universities, but it mostly applies to community colleges as well.
Good Trustees matter. In their way, bad Trustees do, too. More...

3 mars 2019

Upstairs, Downstairs

By Matt Reed. Sunday at the League for Innovation conference encapsulated the tensions in my job just about as well as anyone ever has, mostly without trying. It was jarring. More...

3 mars 2019

Somewhere Between Urgent and Cranky...

By Matt Reed. Monday’s League conference was one of the most encouraging conference days I’ve had in quite a while. For today, I’ll just focus on Uri Treisman’s keynote. More...

3 mars 2019

Build Your Own Course

By Matt Reed. Middlesex Community College (MA, not to be confused with the ones in CT or NJ) has broken its student success course into one-credit shards, from which students pick three.  They’re then bundled into a single course on the transcript. More...

3 mars 2019

Anxieties

By Matt Reed. Weighing college offers.
Decision anxiety is a real thing. Sometimes that still surprises me. More...

3 mars 2019

Why Is High School Four Years?

By Matt Reed. Over the last few days, some colleagues and I have been meeting with curriculum directors and principals of local high schools to discuss ways to ensure that fewer high school grads place into developmental courses. More...

3 mars 2019

'Inclusive Access' and the Comcast Problem

By Matt Reed. As longtime readers know, I’m a supporter of Open Educational Resources (OER), and I’m a seasoned veteran of handset-to-handset combat with customer service people at Comcast. That combination is probably why a lawsuit around “inclusive access” textbook arrangements in South Carolina caught my eye. More...

3 mars 2019

Hampshire: On the Bus or Off the Bus?

By Matt Reed. The college's unusual approach to its current predicament. More...

3 mars 2019

“I Wasn’t Trained for This.”

By Matt Reed. You’re teaching a class. It has twentyish students, ranging in ability, interest, age, and background. One student seems a little offbeat, but nothing out of bounds. One day, about a month into the course, that student starts rocking back and forth aggressively in his chair, and ignoring requests to stop. More...

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