Virtual community pioneer and author Howard Rheingold recently sat down with Bryan Alexander--senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education--to discuss MOOCs through the lens of liberal arts education, and the potential future(s) of MOOCs.
The National Writing Project, as part of the Educator Innovative Initiative (http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/), is kicking off a six-week Making Learning Connected MOOC starting June 15th! Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning.
Judith Butler, author of Bodies That Matter and Gender Trouble, delivered a pitch perfect honorary doctorate address at McGill University about the importance of the humanities in our society and in our universities. Butler is a post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminist philosophy, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley, and is also the Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.
"I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President [of the United States] if I had a personal email."
Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior: "Newcomer Participation in Online Communities"
Special Issue Editors
Aditya Johri, Virginia Tech
Vandana Singh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh
Oded Nov, NYU Polytechnic
