Two recent articles about higher education are about academic innovation more broadly, but raise a specific issue about information systems ...
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Connected Learning as informal learning across an academic department, part 2Connected Learning as informal learning across an academic department, part 2
Last week, I wrote about how I was working on a concept paper that I hope will make the case for ...
ArtfulnessArtfulness
Yesterday’s post was a semi-serious attempt to synthesize the narrative around “academic innovation” in higher education. I say it was ...
The Academic Innovation LandscapeThe Academic Innovation Landscape
For a number of reasons, over the last few years, I’ve been tracking the narrative around “innovation” in higher education. ...
“Be Less Helpful” (Meyer, 2009).“Be Less Helpful” (Meyer, 2009).
[image courtesy of Joe Chavez] I feel pretty confident that this is the first time I’ve used APA ...
The innovation baby and the ed. tech. bath waterThe innovation baby and the ed. tech. bath water
I encounter a lot of resistance to the work that I do. It comes in many forms, and in many ...
Nurturing curiosity through course selection/registrationNurturing curiosity through course selection/registration
Here’s a dilemma that I’m certain is not unique to my institution, but that raises complex questions for me: VCU ...
TensionsTensions
The latest and greatest cohort of our intensive online learning faculty development program, the Online Learning Experience (OLE), begins this ...
Snow day?Snow day?
Trying to understand what it means in this day and age for an organization to be “closed” for weather? Are ...
Announcing ALTfest 2016!Announcing ALTfest 2016!
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that VCU’s Academic Learning Transformation Festival (ALTfest) is coming back to a theater near you! ...