The critiques leveled against students objecting to their institution’s chosen commencement speakers are often dishonest. They appeal, vaguely, to academic freedom and the ideal of a free exchange of ideas. But neither of these ideals is endangered when students object…
Tag: higher education
MOOCMOOC II: The Wrath of MOOC
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…
Pedagogy, Penguingogy, & MOOCs
Penguins have very particular opinions about learning and teaching. Maybe this has something to do with how devoted their elders are to raising their young. During the first MOOCMOOC, I made a video about the environments in which I have…
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…