"Competency-based" education appears to be this year's answer to America's higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Interesting opinion piece by John Ebersole.
Matthew Guterl writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the alternative of open curriculum. It is a nice opinion piece in our discussion of Heutagogy.
Interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that deals with the lack of proper research skills of college graduates as they engage the internet.
This short article comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is part of the ongoing research around MOOCs. This article deals with the management of a MOOC. I hope to create an online class for Candler that will also serve as a MOOC. This will contribute to the learning of how each is different.
In December 2013 a group of academics gathered during a Texas snowstorm and began the second phase of a discussion about massive open online courses. They were not terribly impressed by the hype the courses had received in the popular media, and they had set out to create a better body of literature about MOOCs-albeit a less sensational one.