"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Interesting days here on the fourth floor of the Academic Learning Commons at VCU. Today was the roll out of our institution’s first MOOC – Thought Vectors in Concept Space. CogDog (Alan Levine) and Tom Woodward have been creating magic side by side for the past week – developing a single platform in which six… Read more New Courses and New Play Things
My colleagues in the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence spent an hour this morning debriefing our experience at the first OpenVA Conference held October 14-15 at University of Mary Washington‘s Stafford Campus. Our Jeff Nugent was on the organizing committee for this conference, with strong input from our colleagues at UMW like Jim Groom and… Read more Group Reflections on OpenVA
I admit it. I have not been blogging much lately. There are excuses. To a large degree, I have been wrapped up in other work, so my connections to networked learning have been primarily through Twitter. We have been gearing up for our week-long summer institute, which this year focuses on online learning. I have… Read more Blogging Confession