I’m giving a talk this morning at the 5th annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Academy hosted by Grand Valley State University. The talk is titled “We Can’t X-Ray Their Brains,” and it explores two categories of methods we might use to make student learning visible: social media and visual …
“I wish they would just step away from the MOOC terminology, which is, let’s be honest, copying and lending out a videotape in another name.” That’s a quote from Kevin Bell’s recent essay, “The Hijacking of MOOCs.” Bell is the executive director for online curriculum development and deployment at Northeastern …
In spite of the fact that I’m a mathematician, I’ve been fairly active in the digital humanities (DH) community for a while …
And here’s the Prezi for my concurrent session at the Technology in Higher Education conference in Qatar, “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through …
Here’s the Prezi for my keynote at the Technology in Higher Education conference in Qatar, “Technologies for Learning: Creating Active Learning Environments …
This weekend I get to take the longest plane ride of my life, a 14-hour flight from JFK (in New York City) …
Earlier this week I gave a short presentation as part of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s spring online focus session on MOOCs (massive …
I’m giving a talk on social pedagogies at Georgia Tech later this morning as part of the “Celebrating Teaching Day” hosted by …
Update: Here’s an archive of the “Rock the Monkey” webinar, featuring visual notes by the one-and-only Peter Durand! Next week (Tuesday at …
The “Circuits and Electronics” MOOC from MIT last summer had over 150,000 registrants, but only 5% of them completed the course. The …