This week, a monster not seen since August returned. MOOCMOOC, a MOOC about MOOCs, took over Twitter, and rampaged on Storify and The Canvas Network once again. I can only presume that the monster, temporarily sated will now hibernate for…
Tag: Education
A MOOC, A Meta-MOOC, A MOOCMOOC Monster
This week, I became part of the incessant march. I participated in a MOOC (a Massive Open Online Course), but not just any MOOC: a MOOC about MOOCs. I started out knowing very little about MOOCs other than that they…
Swimming and Teaching
I never came close to being an elite athlete. I never swam in a meet that required qualifying times. I occasionally scored points for my team—usually because the lanes weren’t full for distance or butterfly events. (What can I say?…
Sometimes Innovative Teaching Is Beside the Point
I had great plans for my tutorial this semester. I was going to have them use the class wiki to put together images and passages from assigned texts, using Tom Clark’s post on one of Katherine Mansfield’s poems as a…