Opinion

Katherine Ellison and Cheryl Ball share questions you can expect to hear at an MLA interview.

Michael Bugeja wants his students to come to class, but he has unusual rules to encourage them to do so.

In a previous post we predicted that this year MOOCs will morph into MOCCS (Mid-Sized Online Closed Courses).

I recently read for the first time a book that for many (most?) is a classic: Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Culture of Disciplines, in its revised edition (2001). I admit that the idea of an ethnography of academic disciplines and their internal codes is a bit narcissistic in the sense that it belongs to the genre of academics studying and writing about academia, but then so is this blog and all the writing about the theories of pedagogy and the analyses of higher education.

Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) becoming mechanisms for international competition in global higher education? Or are the MOOCs born in the United States (circa 2012) poised to become post-national platforms of higher ed given their cosmopolitan multilingual architects?

Planning on taking some time off between Christmas and New Year's? Looking for some fiction that will accomplish the twin goals of keeping your brain engaged with technology trends while giving yourself a break? I have 4 suggestions.

Part 3 in my end-of-year review of the top ed-tech trends. This one addresses Code Year and the popular notion in 2012 that "everyone should learn to code."

My younger daughter decided against having a birthday party for her latest birthday and asked instead that I take her to the One Direction concert at Madison Square Garden.