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What-the-heck Happened in 2012? Review of the Top Three Events in Education
This was an extraordinary year in the education sector providing bloggers and journalists with much content to write about: ed-tech start-ups, big data, open courses attracting thousands of students...
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One Essential Resolution for Educators in 2013 – A Personal Learning Environment
This is part one of a three-part series for educators that describes how to create a rich, robust learning network and virtual space—a personal learning environment that supports professional and...
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Need-to-Know News of the Week: The ‘Student Cliff’, Coursera’s Signature...
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series, I aim to share noteworthy stories with readers that speak of developments within higher education and K-12 that have potential to influence, challenge and/or...
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Is Blended Learning the Best of Both Worlds?
… Research has found that blended courses have the potential to increase student learning outcomes while lowering attrition rates in comparison with equivalent fully online courses. ‘Blended Learning’,...
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How NOT to Design a MOOC: The Disaster at Coursera and How to Fix it
I don’t usually like to title a post with negative connotations, but there is no way to put a positive spin on my experience with the MOOC I’m enrolled in through Coursera, Fundamentals of Online...
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How Collaborative Learning Works in Closed Online Courses vs. MOOCs
My previous post about the MOOC disaster at Coursera with the Fundamentals of Online Education [FOE] course generated constructive and worthy discussions among readers that focused on the value and...
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A Course Design ‘Sprint’: My Experience in an Education Hackathon
This past Saturday, February 23, I participated in my first hackathon event; not a coding event as typical of computer programmers, but an education hackathon—a “Course Sprint” where a group of...
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Why and When Peer Grading is Effective for Open and Online Learning
Is peer grading an effective assessment method for open and online learning? What about in MOOCs where student feedback may be the only means of determining a pass or fail in a course? This posts...
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Jailbreak the Degree: Alternatives to the Certifed Transcript
“The degree, like government, holds only the power we give it. America has lost its way by ordaining the degree as requisite to prosperity. Universities do not have a monopoly on learning—only...
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Need-to-Know-News: One HUGE Step Forward for Competency Learning, NEW...
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series my goal is to share noteworthy stories with readers that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to...
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Four Good Reasons Why Students Need Instructor Feedback in Online Courses
In this post I describe why instructor feedback in an online course is essential for students that have yet to master a specific skill set and knowledge, and why MOOCs won’t cut it. In a world of MOOC...
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Need-to-Know News: Minerva’s Model, MOOC Students Reveal Why they Quit and More
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series I share noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge and/or...
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Giving Feedback to Students: Instructor vs. Machine
“edX, a nonprofit enterprise founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will release automated software that uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short...
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News of the Week: Robo-Grading Debate, MOOCs Promoting Peer Collaboration &...
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series I share noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge and/or...
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Why Online Courses [Really] Need an Instructional Design Strategy
In this post I examine and define instructional design, and share why it’s essential to the development of online courses. “Design brings forth what would not come naturally“ Klaus Krippendorff...
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Need-to-Watch-Videos: Three Clips that Promote Thinking Outside-of-the-Box
I interrupt this regularly featured ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series to bring you three media clips that may promote thinking-outside-of-the-box—a different way to look at three much discussed and...
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A MOOC Quality Scorecard applied to Coursera Course
In this post I review a recently completed Coursera course using a quality scorecard approach to measure and quantify five key dimensions of the course. I’m in the final week of a Coursera MOOC, Sports...
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Need-to-Know News: New MOOC Research Hub, ROI on Higher Ed Degrees, Ed-Tech...
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series I aim to share noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge and/or...
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College 2.0: The New Face of Higher Education
What will education look like 15 years from now? What will education look like 15 years from now? This was the first question posed to a group of four leading educators during a recorded panel...
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Need-to-Know-News: An Anti-MOOC Contest, edX & the Future of Higher Ed, New...
In this ‘Need-to-Know’ blog post series my aim is to share noteworthy stories that speak of need-to-know developments within higher education and K-12 that have the potential to influence, challenge...
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