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Collaboration, Experimentation, and Solving the World's Problems
You've heard the stories from those who have successfully navigated the grad school gauntlet and come out the other end with gainful employment both inside and outside of the academy. While everyone's experience is uniquely their own, when you ask them about it two common themes seem to emerge.
Digital Literacies 101 – What MOOCs Really Teach
In my world, fall means back-to-school. This fall, across the world, back-to-school means MOOCs. For somewhere close to a million people.
How Do You Choose Your EDUCAUSE Vendor Meetings?
Are you going to EDUCAUSE in Denver the week of 11/5? If you are an "IT Decision Maker" on your campus, someone who decides what your institution or school or even department purchases, then there will be many folks at EDUCAUSE that will want to meet you. How do you choose which vendors to meet?
#EDU12 - Prepping for EDUCAUSE
The greatest higher education technology conference in the universe takes place next week. The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is simply amazing. As the epicenter of higher education and technology, this event offers up something for anyone who works in higher education. Ok, I know that I sound like an extreme fanboy right now, but trust me, this is an outrageously fabulous event. On my meeting calendar I've scheduled conversations with representatives from Pearson, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, AT&T*, and Ellucian. The amount of information that will be disseminated at EDUCAUSE is staggering. Major product announcements, press embargoes, non-disclosure agreements, and an enormous exhibit hall…EDUCAUSE is the most jam-packed event of the year for the ed tech crowd.
Math Geek Mom: The Center of our (Political) Landscape
There is a concept in geometry known as the “centroid” of a triangle. This is the point at which the...
Loyalty cont'd: Graham Spanier of Penn State Indicted
A very sad way to make the point from yesterday's post.
Open Online Education and the Canvas Network
Instructure announced today that it’s launching a new service called Canvas Network. The service is being positioned as an alternative to existing MOOC vendors or platforms (such as Coursera or EdX) to allow schools to teach open online courses on the Canvas platform.
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
The Girl dressed as a Tootsie Roll, and The Boy as a Jawa from Star Wars. They were endearing, but not scary. I had front door duty.