The broad objective of this discourse is to change the way teachers and students think about onsite and online education—leading to ways that improve upon contemporary pedagogical practice and banishing the notion that one form is inferior to the other. Click … Continue reading
Three common approaches to online course development are compared and contrasted herein for a higher synthesis. … Continue reading
It’s always interesting to see, hear and read the buy-in on Bloom’s Taxonomy, and the grand ascriptions to its rather dull precepts. … Continue reading
Piazza (http://piazza.com) is an open source Q&A (Question & Answer) platform. … Continue reading
This article concerns the outsourcing of school information technology (IT) services. … Continue reading
A. J. Liebling famously commented that freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. “Well, we all own one now,” said Mike Godwin, legal director of Public Knowledge, a First Amendment group. (See The New York Times, Sunday, September 25. Page 3.) See http://cpsr.org/prevsite/conferences/cfp93/godwin.html … Continue reading
Silviculture, from the Latin silva + cultura is the art and science of forest management. … Continue reading
At the intersection of the public’s rights, wants and needs to know, where does the media draw the line with respect to privacy? … Continue reading
I urge the Board of Education to devise a mechanism for monitoring the quality of online courses at all levels in Connecticut. … Continue reading
In the 1990s, talk of the “digital divide” in education revolved around the haves and have-nots. … Continue reading