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Jon Breitenbucher

Essay says faculty involved in MOOCs may be making rope for professional hangings | Ins... - 0 views

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    Some warnings about what institutions might be losing with the rush to MOOCs
Jon Breitenbucher

New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses - Technology - The Chr... - 0 views

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    The rogue academic.
Jon Breitenbucher

Wellesley and Wesleyan hope MOOCs will inform campus-based teaching | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    We need to formulate a plan for how we want to address MOOCs. We can't ignore them.
Jon Breitenbucher

Higher education: Not what it used to be | The Economist - 0 views

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    A pretty scathing look at the value of higher education.
Jon Breitenbucher

Stanford moves ahead with plans to radically change humanities doctoral education | Ins... - 0 views

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    Possibly some ideas for how Wooster might begin to think about tweaking our curriculum.
Jon Breitenbucher

The Future of Higher Education: Keynote Panel | The New School - YouTube - 0 views

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    This seems relevant given wehre some of our SWOT conversation went.
Amyaz Moledina

Flipping the Curriculum: Introductory Courses Should Be Just as Good as the Capstone Ex... - 0 views

  • “flipping the curriculum.” It would call for small classes in the freshman and senior years and larger classes for sophomores and particularly for juniors. The profit that the university makes right now on introductory classes would remain, but just shift to the junior year.
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    We already do this!
Jon Breitenbucher

CourseTalk Launches A Yelp For Open Online Courses And What This Means For Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    Article with some more detail on CourseTalk
Jon Breitenbucher

CourseTalk - MOOC Reviews & Ratings - 0 views

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    A Yelp for MOOCs. It was only a matter of time.
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on what professors can learn from preschool teachers | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    An interesting article to consider as the Faculty's role continues to shift away from content delivery.
Jon Breitenbucher

Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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    Khan's ideas for what a 21st century university could look like sounds a lot like how I have heard early centers of learning described.
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on the challenges posed by MOOCs to liberal arts colleges | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    A thoughtful essay from the director and associate director of NITLE on the role of MOOCs for small colleges.
Jon Breitenbucher

The Open Utopia | …though no one owns anything, everyone is rich. - Thomas More - 0 views

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    Here is a good example of what an IS might look like in 2 years. You can read more about the process at http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Reading-Projects/135908
Jon Breitenbucher

Build Your Own Open Access Journal: An Interview with Rob Walsh of Scholastica - ProfHa... - 0 views

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    I sent this to some of the Fellows a few months (3-4) ago. This article gives a nice description of the service.
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