A recent post by Amy Cavender on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s ProfHacker blog explores the possibilities afforded by a syllabus that is fully online—as a web page that you can update during the semester without having to re-print the syllabus for your students. The post follows a sequence of previous articles on ProfHacker showcasing…
Category: Higher Education
Zombie MOOC?
EDUCAUSE defines massively open online courses (MOOCs) as a model for delivering learning content online to virtually any person—with no limit on attendance—who wants to take the course. MOOCs are offered on a wide range of subjects, including physics, journalism, and zombies. Wait…zombies…? Yes, that’s NOT a typo!
So, what, exactly, is a “MOOC”?
In 2012 and 2013, so far, there has been a lot of talk about massively open online courses, which are commonly known as “MOOCs”. Almost every session that we attended at the 2013 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting mentioned MOOCs, and the 2013 Horizon Report predicts that MOOCs will see widespread adoption in higher…
Snow Problem?
The last few days have seen quite a bit of snow here in The Valley and at UMass Amherst. Classes were canceled for some of us at the University this past Friday. This got me wondering, what do university snow days mean to us as adults and higher education instructors and professionals? I found this…
2013 NMC- ELI Horizon Report
On February 4, the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition was released. The Horizon Report is a joint initiative between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Topics covered in this year’s report include:
ELI Annual Meeting 2013
This week, February 4 to February 6, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting 2013 is being held in Denver, CO (in person and online). The theme of this year’s ELI meeting is “Advancing the Next Generation of Learning.”