By Rich Russell I had a student in a traditional class last semester (let's call him "Anthony") who was a bit of a Holden Caulfield. (I don't…
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By Rich Russell "Inside the Machine," in Forster's short story, Kuno's mother Vashti is a lecturer on music history. Here, where every individual is confined to a separate…
By Rich Russell My mom said to me recently, "In twenty-five years, none of this [waving arms about to indicate college building] will exist." We were sitting…
By Rich Russell It is that time, just before the new semester begins, when the online professor must again go diving into the wreck. Well— but it…
By Rich Russell The answer to the question I get asked "all" the time is, yes — I do actually sometimes wear pajamas while teaching online. I'm an…
By P.D. Lesko The new E-Zine content went up and there are a couple of pieces that deal directly with the question of whether higher education will…
By Rich Russell It is upon us, colleagues!! THE END [of the semester] IS NIGH!!! I declared to a colleague this week: "If you do not hear…
By Rich Russell A few weeks ago, I posted the following assignment for my two sections of online Composition II students: Discussion: Wikipedia and the Iraq War.…
By P.D. Lesko I'm starting to get jealous of AdjunctNation.com's Juggling 101 blogger Kat Kiefer-Newman. Her blog posts are shared and shared and shared on Facebook with…
By Rich Russell Upon discovering that I'd become a contributor to a blog about online education, a colleague of mine posed two important questions about our work:…