Rap Genius, Course Constitutions, and Formative Assessment: #FutureEd Week One
This weekend I caught up on “The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” a massive open online course (MOOC) taught by …
Lessons Learned from Vanderbilt’s First MOOCs
Last month, I shared on the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog a report on Vanderbilt’s first three MOOCs. I’m cross-posting that report …
Why Isn’t the Digital Humanities Community Building Great MOOCs?
In spite of the fact that I’m a mathematician, I’ve been fairly active in the digital humanities (DH) community for a while …
A Few FAQs (with Answers!) on Clickers from #nercompCRS
Two weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) special interest group meeting on classroom response …
A Crowdsourced Rubric for Evaluating Infographics
I’m teaching a statistics course this spring. It’s the fourth time I’ve taught this course, and, in an effort to make it …
Structured Twitter Assignments
Last month on ProfHacker, Mark (@samplereality) Sample described his use of Storify to collect and organize student tweets in his science fiction …
Learning-through-Diversity at the #CIRTLForum
I’m facilitating a workshop on learning-through-diversity at the CIRTL Network Forum later today. The workshop is titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of …
New and Improved Prezi: The Wisdom of Crowds (#NAIRTL11)
I’m giving a talk at the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference and Galway Symposium on Higher Education today in Galway, Ireland. The talk …
Hitting the Road: Clickers Conference (Houston) & Higher Ed Conference (Ireland)
I’ve giving a keynote at two conferences in early June. The first is the Clickers Conference 2011 in Houston, Texas, June 3-4, …
A Workshop on Leveraging Student Diversity through Crowdsourcing in the Classroom
Last night I led a workshop titled “Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching.” My goal in the workshop was …