The MOOC stumble: Lessons from Napster
I have been a long time proponent of online education and have been offering webcasts of my classes since 2001. However, I was a little skeptical about the…
MIT’s Big Data education set to get underway
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) is offering its first professional learning course tackling the ins and outs of Big Data, a subject near and dear to educators and…
Bursting the MOOC bubble
After a couple of years basking in the spotlight the tide seems to have turned in MOOC-land. We seem to be heading for the dreaded trough of disillusionment.…
Collaboration in the ‘cloud’ helps develop key skills
In today’s world, businesses are grappling with the need to equip their employees with state-of-the art technology—and the skills necessary to deal with the continuous information overload employees…
The best way to define success in a calculus MOOC
I’m going to strike now, while the conversational iron is hot, and ask people to define success for a calculus MOOC. I’ve already mostly explained why in this…
6 steps to better emergency preparedness on campus
Today’s college campuses are faced with a myriad of potential risks, ranging from active shooters and natural disasters to power outages and medical emergencies. While most institutions have…
MOOCs: Cheating as learning
I've participated in many MOOCs (I've lost count). Many of them I felt were xMOOCs but I wasn't so comfortable with my first MOOC experience which I thought…
Here’s why MOOCs don’t work (and how they can be fixed)
I spent some time over the holidays looking at some MOOC offerings – either the freebie intro lectures available from some of the major providers, or the clips…
Big Data’s place in community colleges
If I ask 10 people to define predictive analytics and how it is used on their respective campuses to improve student outcomes, I am likely to hear stories…
Confessions of a MOOC reviewer
As an American Council on Education (ACE) CREDIT reviewer, I had the unique privilege of being on the team that reviewed the first MOOC (massive open online course).…