Engaged learning—the type that happens outside textbooks and beyond the four walls of the classroom—moves beyond right and wrong answers to grappling with the uncertainties and contradictions of a complex world.
My iPhone backs up to the “cloud.” GoogleDocs is all about “cloud computing.” And Facebook, well, forget the clouds; it’s as ubiquitous as the sk...
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
It will be truly ironic if the most impersonal technology of all ends up saving the most personal kind of teaching and learning in higher education.
I speak about the dramatic rise of online learning and MOOCs. Everyone, it seems, is talking about and questioning the relevance and “value proposition” of higher education. From Thoma...
An education dean reflects on MOOCs …I am not a machine.This makes my college students happy. Though, to be honest, they assume as much since I walk into the classroom, make some small talk and launch into my lecture. After a few minutes, I may stop, ask for questions, prompt some discussion and perhaps tell a few bad jokes. Which should prove once and for all that I am human and fallible.M...
It’s a great day when work means meeting with two women you admire greatly to discuss postsecondary education and workforce development in your favorite state!
Songwriter and social activist Cyndi Lauper will deliver commencement address @northernVTU in Johnson on May 18; documentary filmmaker Bess O’Brien will address @northernVTU in Lyndon on May 19
Three Southern Vt. colleges closing: College of St. Joseph, Green Mountain College, Southern Vermont College | Our Opinion: And then there were three ... https://t.co/KTIUyDxroP via @BrattReformer
Engaged learning—the type that happens outside textbooks and beyond the four walls of the classroom—moves beyond right and wrong answers to grappling with the uncertainties and contradictions of a complex world.
My iPhone backs up to the “cloud.” GoogleDocs is all about “cloud computing.” And Facebook, well, forget the clouds; it’s as ubiquitous as the sk... 
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
It will be truly ironic if the most impersonal technology of all ends up saving the most personal kind of teaching and learning in higher education.
I speak about the dramatic rise of online learning and MOOCs. Everyone, it seems, is talking about and questioning the relevance and “value proposition” of higher education. From Thoma... 
An education dean reflects on MOOCs …I am not a machine.This makes my college students happy. Though, to be honest, they assume as much since I walk into the classroom, make some small talk and launch into my lecture. After a few minutes, I may stop, ask for questions, prompt some discussion and perhaps tell a few bad jokes. Which should prove once and for all that I am human and fallible.M... 
