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Macaulay Springboards: The Capstone as an Open Learning Eportfolio
a later version of this essay appears in Eportfolio as Curriculum, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey, from Stylus Publishing. Macaulay Springboards: The Capstone as an Open Learning Eportfolio Joseph Ugoretz Macaulay Honors College, CUNY Introduction A department office at a large public university is often a busy place. When I was an undergraduate, long […]
Why videos?
In the Cathy Davidson “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC, I’m really intrigued by her decision (or maybe Coursera’s decision?) to have so much of the content delivered by means of video. Particularly I’m intrigued (or even concerned) by the use of video that takes so little advantage of the affordances of the […]
Creativity vs. Organization
I’m enrolled in Cathy Davidson’s “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” MOOC. I’ve got some comments about the course in general in another post, but I thought that I might as well share, here, my first assignment for the course. No guarantees that I will keep up with these assignments, but at least I […]
Reverse Midterm
This exercise is one that I invented (pretty much on the spur of the moment) last year, when students asked me if we were having a midterm and I hadn’t planned on it. I told them no, then thought it over a bit. The next class I came in and put on a grave and […]
Classroom Manifesto
In no particular order, I propose these two dozen…. Questions are more important than answers. Cooperating is more important than competing. Thinking is more important than knowing. Searching is more important than finding. Making is more important than having. Opportunities are more important than rules. Understanding is more important than achieving. Learning is more important […]
The Emerging Doitocracy
A meritocracy is not enough, when it requires someone, somewhere, to recognize that merit as an abstract concept. We live in a world where, increasingly, the reliability of credentialing is suspect. Where the proof of merit is not a degree or a position or a title. In that situation, when it’s tough to trust a […]
STEAM
Thanks to Michael Branson Smith for the great tip to listen to Adam Savage’s talk “Why We Make” at the 2012 San Francisco Maker Fair. Savage explains with some brilliance how art is always part of STEM (art is where it all begins), and how learning works best when it comes through “making what you […]
On Wizards and Learning
There are many things to like about Gandalf, but one that especially appeals to me is that he isn’t a wizard just because he was stolen away and adopted by wizards when he was a baby, or because another wizard bit him and sucked his blood, or some woman in a lake chucked a sword […]
The first MIT.x course
MIT has opened enrollment for the first of the new MIT.x courses, “Circuits and Electronics.” The course is free, and in this first pilot instance, even the certificate gained for completing the course successfully will be free (MIT expects to start charging for those some time soon). 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics) is designed to serve […]
Of iBooks and textbooks. And Authoring. By Students.
So there’s been a lot of excited posts–positive and negative–in a lot of different places about Apple’s announcement last week that they were ready to “revolutionize” the world of textbooks. Some of the best of those that I’ve seen are from Audrey Watters at Hack Education and Kathleen Fitzpatrick at ProfHacker (both of these are mainly critical). […]
