I’m going to put on my family scientist hat for a few minutes to talk about Mother’s Day. Last…
Help us understand learner experiences in MOOCs and open online courses
An invitation from George Veletsianos (Royal Roads University) and Amy Collier (Stanford University): We are conducting a study…
Theory As Liberatory Practice (hooks informs the discussion)
A lot of people are talking about the absence of theory in MOOCs and MOOC research. Here are…
What happens in distributed flips? Investigating students’ interactions with MOOC videos and forums (re-post from VPOL blog)
This article was originally written for and posted on the Stanford Online Signal blog Last month, Mike Caulfield…
Alternately titled: “Online learning has been around since before you were born”
Last night, our EDUC 338x class did a deeper dive into the history of online learning leading up…
The (online) teacher’s body
At #ET4Online in July, I met a kindred spirit named Jen Ross, lecturer and academic program director for the…
A community of obsessed makers: My day at Maker Faire 2012
I boarded the bike car of the 9:30 am Caltrain and ran into a wall of people and…
Arduino? Oh yes!
This week, I spent a bit of time talking about Arduino. I talked with a dance professor about…
5 easy things you can do to your course this summer [from the archives]
The summer is a great time for redesigning or redeveloping a course. The process of redesigning, when it…
Learning on the beach
This weekend, I had the opportunity to join a group of Stanford students on a field trip to…
The power of making
In third grade, growing up in Brazil and homeschooled through a correspondence school called Calvert, I found that my…
Failure is always an option
Last month, at John Seeley Brown’s evocative DML2012 keynote, I was reminded of the notion of failure in…
“Is this thing on?” What to do with student presentations [from the archives, renamed]
Admit it, student presentations can be a real disaster. I have used student presentations several times in my…
“Learn this” and “Pin This”: The Pinterest Model for a Connected Learning Platform
On the train, returning from the DML 2012 conference in San Francisco, I am sorting through the interactions…
Return to Evernote?
Several years ago, I began using a relatively new (at the time) service called Evernote. I was a…
The scientific method, 5 ways [from the archives]
This blog post was originally published in 2011. Over the weekend, I watched They Might Be Giants’ Here Comes…
Some thoughts on teaching with Pinterest [from the archives]
This post was originally published in 2011. Recently, a friend introduced me to Pinterest, an online pinboard tool…
Let go (of coverage) [from the archives]
This post was originally published in 2011. I heard it over and over at the CIC Information Fluency…
Vulnerability in the classroom [from the archives]
This blog post was originally published in 2011. “vulnerability is not only a condition to be endured, but…
Teaching an online course? 5 things to do at the start of the semester [from the archives]
This blog post was originally published August 22, 2011. I had intended to make another Made from Scratch…