Try, try again, Udacity
Stumble. On hold. Pause. Suspends. Falls short. Fails fast. Gets an F. Last week, there was an almost gleeful torrent of articles describing the crumbling […]
July 24, 2013
Author: Michelle R. Weise, PhD
Forget ‘facilitate’: ‘Alter’ the paradigm of teaching and learning
Last week, Blackboard made two major announcements: first, they would be jumping on the MOOC bandwagon by creating their own MOOC platform (not a huge […]
July 17, 2013
The liberal arts: dead or alive?
Full disclosure: I majored in comparative literature in college and then went on to do a master’s and a Ph.D. in English literature. Having also […]
July 10, 2013
Technology makes the pedagogy go ’round
Let’s talk about control. At a recent conference for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), former president Cary Nelson talked about how faculty members’ […]
June 26, 2013
Publish or perish? Publish or teach.
When my college seniors would approach me for recommendation letters for graduate school in the humanities, they would inevitably leave my office with copies of […]
June 19, 2013
Online education is no bubble
In his most recent Forbes op-ed, John Tamny calls out online education as the bubble that’s about to burst. He asserts that the traditional college […]
June 12, 2013
Setting up competency-based education for success
Out of all of the innovations emerging in higher education, competency-based education has been flying under the radar especially when compared with MOOCs. Only competency-based […]
June 5, 2013
Why we “hire” MOOCs like Coursera
Last week, I dared to suggest that Coursera is not disruptive—at least, not yet. Its inclusion of K-12 teacher-training materials, while not passing the litmus […]
May 29, 2013
Coursera’s not disruptive…not yet
My colleague Meredith Liu recently blogged about Coursera’s latest venture: professional development (PD) courses for K-12 teachers. Meredith rightly outlined the ways in which these […]
May 22, 2013
Time to ride the tsunami
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on HuffPost Live. The topic was massive open online courses (MOOCs), prompted specifically […]
May 15, 2013