MOOCs

Are You Ready for These New Education Technology Fads and Trends?

by Frank Catalano At one point in early May, three different edtech conferences overlapped in the San Francisco Bay Area in the same week: NewSchools Venture Fund’s invitation-only NewSchools Summit, the Software and Information Industry Association’s annual Education Industry Summit, and the U.S. Office of Education Technology’s Future...

Satire: Dead Professor Wins Top Online Teaching Awards

by Teena Angst Freelance Writer “Clarence was such a loving and attentive partner, I never even knew he was teaching classes during his last few years,” said widow Clara Franklin..

MOOCs Will Probably Turn Out To Be Little More Than An Edu-tainment "Bubble"

by Peter Scott I have tried, really hard, not to write about MOOCs. But I can't keep it up forever, and what better time than the silly season to write.

San Jose State MOOC Experiment Suggests MOOC Pushers May Be Selling Snake Oil

by Michael Hiltzik Let it not be said that San Jose State University hasn’t taught the world a valuable lesson in the promises and pitfalls of the fancy new craze for online university learning. The Cal State University campus set itself up as a pioneer in...

Do MOOCs Spell Disaster For Adjunct Faculty?

by David S. D’Angelo Within higher education, non-tenured faculty are not only on the front lines of higher education, their jobs are most often impacted tremendously by technological and political.

Campus Threats Made in Online Courses—What's A Faculty Member To Do?

by Kate Mangu-Ward If a student threatens to shoot his classmates (or himself) on the online message board for his physics class, does that count as a campus threat? That’s.