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...
Upstairs, Downstairs
Somewhere Between Urgent and Cranky...
Build Your Own Course
Anxieties
Why Is High School Four Years?
'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...
Hampshire: On the Bus or Off the Bus?
“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...