"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
Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, recently presented at Stanford University on web trends. Her presentation contains eighty-eight slides full of interesting and thought-provoking information. Her message is that the evolving web forces us to re-imagine everything. For those of us in faculty development, it is suggestive of changes that… Read more Re-Imagination of Everything
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