"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to 2013! I have two “open” new years resolutions. We have been talking about how the web has become increasingly open, social and participatory for the past four years…yet with the arrival of the MOOC bandwagon last year, “open” took on new significance. So, as 2013 gets rolling, I and… Read more Starting the New Year Open
I fell behind in BlendKit 2012 for the simple reasons many of my students fall behind in some of my classes – life intervened. I managed to keep up the first two weeks, but in the past two, I attended SLOAN-C’s International Conference on Online Learning, our Center started a new Learning Path for online… Read more Blendkit2012 Weeks 3 and 4
In a post last week, I discussed starting UCF‘s MOOC on blended learning. In the first week, we looked at what our blend might be. This week, the focus is on how and when students will interact, with each other and with the instructor. There are some things I like about this course and things… Read more BlendKit2012 Week 2
This semester, Joyce Kincannon and I are both facilitating two separate faculty learning communities on blended learning. I am also trying to wrap my brain around the whole MOOC thing. So what better way than to sign up for a MOOC on blended learning! Joyce is taking it too, so we will see if we… Read more Starting BlendKit2012
A TED Talk posted earlier this month has created a bit of buzz. Daphne Koller discussed what she had learned from forming Coursera and offering online courses free to thousands of people. I recommend spending the 20 minutes to listen to Daphne. Many of her points are not new, but she has framed them in… Read more What I Learned From Daphne Koller