Electronic surveillance and higher education
These are only the stories that came across my radar during just the last 4 months. Harvard secretly photographed students to study attendance (Boston Globe, 11/5/14) Harvard University has revealed...
View ArticleHigher ed’s big move? Part 1
Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, delivered the 2015 Hays Press-Enterprise lecture at the University of California, Riverside on April 7. The text of his speech titled...
View ArticleWhat does learning in #highered look like to you?
If you’re reading this post, you probably know a bit about Minerva. If not, please consider reading on without first pinging the Google machine. If you do know some things, try to pretend you don’t...
View ArticleHacking the syllabus
Today, at #VCUALTfest, Lyndsay Durham and I co-facilitated a “hackjam” focused on hacking the syllabus. I regret that we never got around to actually building or producing anything. But, we spent a...
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The Online Learning Experience (OLE)
Image courtesy of neil banas In my last post, I invited you all (both of you?) to follow and learn along with two online summer courses taking place right now. Today, I’m inviting you to learn and...
View ArticlePersonality, personalization, and teaching in higher ed.
In a return to the good ol’ days of educational blogging, Martin Weller wrote a blog post that has generated 49 comments as of this writing (which comes about 72 hours after he posted). I can’t...
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The Defaults and Constraints of Teaching in #Highered
In faculty development generally, and certainly in #VCUALTLab specifically, the goal is often to help professors design new and (presumably) better learning experiences. When working with willing and...
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Dispositions and habits of/for connected learning
Next week, we begin the next iteration of what we call the Online Learning Experience (OLE), an intensive faculty development experience for VCU faculty members who will be teaching an online course....
View ArticleA meta #onlinelearning faculty development activity
In my (simple) mind, one overarching theme of VCU ALTLab‘s online learning faculty development initiative, the Online Learning Experience (OLE), is exploring the affordances of the modern Web for...
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Announcing VCU ALTfest
Here at VCU ALT Lab, we are driven by the act of transformation. Not only do we work everyday to transform learning experiences with and for VCU faculty, staff and students, we are also driven to...
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