Field Notes for a Peer-Written Textbook for Teaching Collaborative, Open, Peer Learning and Teaching

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May 212013
 

Yesterday #Duke21C met again, two weeks after the end of the semester to take our book manuscript to the next level and make dozens of collective decisions and delegate all the chores necessary on the way to publishing our book together.   Amazingly, 100% of the students and the prof (moi!) showed up for an intense, friendly, and uttlery collaborative three hour session, one on Skype from Cambridge, one having just gotten in by bus from Washington, DC, another having returned early from a hiking trip, and ot

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Field Notes for a Peer-Written Textbook for Teaching Collaborative, Open, Peer Learning and Teaching

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May 212013
 

Yesterday #Duke21C met again, two weeks after the end of the semester to take our book manuscript to the next level and make dozens of collective decisions and delegate all the chores necessary on the way to publishing our book together.   Amazingly, 100% of the students and the prof (moi!) showed up for an intense, friendly, and uttlery collaborative three hour session, one on Skype from Cambridge, one having just gotten in by bus from Washington, DC, another having returned early from a hiking trip, and ot

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Storyboarding the Future of Higher Education.

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May 162013
 

This is a first draft of the storyboard outline for The History and Future of Higher Education, my six-week Coursera course that will premier in Spring 2014.   I will also be teaching a face-to-face Duke student-led course on the topic and the Duke PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge will be contributing ideas throughout the course to destabilize, complicate, agitate, and in otherwise shake up the centralized, Sage on the Stage video model.  

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Dream Courses: My students write 7 course descriptions for ideal courses, and critique their teacher’s attempts

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May 132013
 

 

This week, I had what I almost thought was an insurmountable challenge: To create a course description for an undergraduate communications/writing course that would be elective, that is, not required for graduation. Students would sign up of their own free will to learn more about communications and writing. What sort of course could attract undergraduates who are often so glad to be done with college requirements and busy with their own major requirements that they would take another writing course?

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Let’s Hack Higher Ed! An Invitation to Team Teach “Future of the University” in Spring 2014:

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May 102013
 

This is a formal invitation for anyone, at any level, to join several of us--it's becoming a small army!--in distributed team-teaching of many different kinds of classes on the future of the university, to be offered simultaneously and concurrently in Spring 2014.  No formal structure.   We'll communicate via HASTAC, via Twitter and Facebook, via anyone who wants to blog and reblog anything, but the purpose will be to come up with tons of new, exciting ideas (including some workarounds you are already using) for relevant, important teaching for this generation.  &nb

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Hello HASTAC: a brief introduction

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May 012013
 

I wasn’t planning on getting into education.

In high school my role model was Carl Sagan and my ambition was to study astrophysics at Cornell or MIT. When I arrived at Trent University in 1984 that had changed, and I enrolled in Comparative Development Studies – a discipline where one examined the structural causes of underdevelopment and poverty.

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