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Here is an obvious question: Why don’t universities host their own MOOCs rather than outsource hosting to third parties like Udacity and Coursera?
As we clearly see with edX — the partnership between Harvard and MIT — many universities already possess considerable marketing power through their own branding, identity, and prestige. Why should the University of [...]
MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are here — The Next Big Thing in higher education technology development. They appeared rapidly and unexpectedly on the education scene in 2012. The 2012 Horizon Report (Higher Education Edition) did not even mention MOOCs. But just a year later the 2013 Horizon Report identified MOOCs as one of [...]
Beginning in the Spring term 2013, a student can earn a Graduate Certificate in Interactive Media Studies entirely through online courses. Two fully online courses will be offered in the Spring 2013 term — IMS 519, Digital Branding, taught by Jim Coyle; and IMS 522, Advanced Web Design, taught by Artie Kuhn. One fully online [...]
I have to disagree strenuously with Mark Edmundson’s overly casual dismissal of online education in his recent New York Times op-ed piece, “The Trouble with Online Education” (July 19, 2012). The trouble is that Edmundson doesn’t understand online education, or perhaps hasn’t much practical experience with it. Maybe he just needs a digital strawman to [...]
“Flipping the classroom” means using class time differently than you would in the traditional mode of instruction — which is to say this: Why waste class time lecturing/presenting during class meeting times when you can ask students to listen to lectures via video outside of class, and then use class time for interaction with students, [...]
Infographics are slick and fun, but can they function effectively as business reports?
Yes, that seems possible to me — and I plan to explore this possibility in a course I’ll be teaching in Spring 2012 on “Interactive Business Communication.”
Infographics are a visually compact way to present a lot of data in a small space [...]
“Business communication” is a large category, covering a lot of different interactive activities, so let me narrow that question: What new kinds of communications — let’s call them genres — and what new sorts of communication skills do people need to be successful in business?
Some old basic writing skills and rhetorical principles still very much [...]
Take a look at Tim Carmody’s recent Atlantic essay “10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books” for an interesting historical perspective on this question. As Elizabeth Eisenstein (1979) told us, the printing press allowed for the reliable production of “identical text” — and that change was important to the Scientific Revolution. Now, as we are increasingly using [...]
“Google Books Settlement 2.0″ is the amended settlement in the case of The Authors Guild, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., et al. (Plaintiffs) v. Google (Defendant). In 2005, the plaintiffs sued Google for alleged breach of copyright for its Book Search project. The amended settlement — released on Friday, November 13th, 2009 — has [...]