"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
As we approach the end of Spring semester in GRAD-602, our students are beginning to submit their reflections on the book they read for the course. They had a choice of five books: Ambrose, S. et. al. (2010). How Learning Works: 7 Research-based Principles for Smart Teaching Bain, K. (2011). What the Best College Teachers… Read more Evangelizing Teaching
An interesting second and third day here at the 19th Annual SLOAN Consortium International Conference on Online Learning. The second day started early with an 8am keynote by Daphne Koller of Coursera, entitled “The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits.” Her abstract for this talk made the following points: “We are at the cusp of a… Read more Sloan Online Conference Days Two and Three
This past weekend, I was in my old hometown of Atlanta for the first Teaching Professor Technology Conference. With only 650 people attending, the conference had an intimate feeling to it. This was one of the first conferences I have attended in which I knew very few people, but friends were quickly made…and I added… Read more Integrating Teaching and Technology
These are exciting times at our Center for Teaching Excellence at VCU. Gardner Campbell is reporting next week as our new Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success. Jon Becker started yesterday as our interim Director of Online Education. We are saying goodbye to Phillip Edwards as he leaves for the Ohio State University Center… Read more Rethinking Fundamentals
In this last week of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures, I mentioned in my last post that our assignment was to create a digital artifact for this learning experience. I chose to explore Scoop.It as a way of curating resources from this course, and posted my resulting artifact here. … Read more Exploring EDCMOOC Digital Artifacts from My Global Classmates
As we entered the fifth and last week of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures, our assignment was to create a digital artifact for this learning experience. I chose to explore Scoop.It as a way of curating resources from this course, and then to use Camtasia to record a short… Read more EDCMOOC and My Digital Artifact
. We are in our second week in the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures. This was the image that greeted us when we clicked on the Week 2 page – a cross-stitch noting that its gonna be the future soon! Nice Flickr photo from krupp! Of course, we are typically… Read more EDCMOOC Week 2: Looking to the Future
I discussed the first week in the Coursera course, E-Learning and Digital Cultures, in my last post. Now, four days later, it has been interesting to see the social side of this massive open online course unfold. Friday, I attended the Google Hangout session for the class. Bud Deihl joined me in my office as… Read more EDCMOOC Thoughts on Social Side
I am in the first week of the five week-long massive open online course (or MOOC) – E-Learning and Digital Cultures, offered by Coursera through the University of Edinburgh. The course is being taught by Jeremy Knox, Sian Bayne, Hamish Macleod, Jen Ross, and Christine Sinclair. To quote from the course information page: “E-learning and… Read more EDCMOOC Week 1: Utopias and Dystopias