dear unhappy student

This post also appears on my personal blog, thedaysman.com, but seemed appropriate for this blog as well. —————- Thank you for bringing your concern about your grade to my attention. The grade has been changed to the grade you felt you deserved, and was in fact the grade you earned. The discrepancy you noted regarding [...]

too little too late

It’s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ conference this month felt that expectations about research and tenure were interfering with the quality of learning. What is surprising is that the solutions proposed are so timid. Fewer lectures will help but it won’t save us.

the future of learning.

Some of my graduate students have been thinking about the future of online education, particularly from the students’ perspective. I’m intrigued by Ric’s observation that the learner of the future will still be, well, a learner. As probably the youngest of the four students considering this question, he indicates he is still learning new tricks [...]