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  • Civilization’s jungle paths

    Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site… Continue reading

    Civilization’s jungle paths

  • Looking for art history? Search no further.

    Good day and well met all of my brothers and sisters of the Ether! Those of you into art , art history, and aesthetics will really enjoy this. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a database with… Continue reading

    Looking for art history? Search no further.

  • MOOC, Online Education and its future | Learner Weblog

    Misunderstanding, lack of common “goals” among various institutions and professors, and differing interests in schools of education and pedagogy have all left people mixing MOOCs with online education. To me, this is only part of the “wicked problems” especially when disruptive… Continue reading

    MOOC, Online Education and its future | Learner Weblog

  • [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

    This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine:   …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4   Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

  • Aurora Consurgens

    Our evaluations. – All actions may be traced back to evaluations, all evaluations are original or adopted – the latter being by far the most common. Why do we adopt them? From fear – that is to say, we consider… Continue reading

  • Visual Practice

    As a closet doodler most of my life I was enthralled to learn that note taking through drawing is not only a practice but an evidence-based accepted practice filled with amazing people working in the field. via Visual Practice.   Continue reading

  • The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics!     Teri Shaffer Yamada Jeffrey J. Selingo, Editor at Large at the Chronicle of Higher Education, has extensive experience with the politics of … Keith Wayne Brown‘s… Continue reading

    The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics

  • Major Players in the MOOC Universe

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Explore connections among the industry’s major players. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most… Continue reading

    Major Players in the MOOC Universe

  • Keeping the Humanities Vibrant

    My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of… Continue reading

    Keeping the Humanities Vibrant

  • Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?

    You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that  in its current form, the… Continue reading

    Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?

  • The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science

    My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading

    The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science

  • Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’ – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Karl Jaspers and a number of other professors gave radio lectures and then television lectures. I recall my great friend, Richard Owsley, telling me that while he studied at the… Continue reading

  • Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News This is the time of year many high school seniors are getting their long-awaited, highly anticipated college acceptance letters. See on inplainsight.nbcnews.com Related articles Organizing Adjunct Faculty… Continue reading

    Meet your new professor: Transient, poorly paid

  • Socialist Alternative – What is university for? (and what it should be like)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Going to university should be a liberating experience. It should train us to critique rigorously all orthodoxies and dogmas. It should be about unloc… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Everyday I try to help youth… Continue reading

    Socialist Alternative – What is university for? (and what it should be like)

  • An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education « Learning Change

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This dissertation develops an ontological understanding of dialogue that is then used to reconsider the forms and purposes of schooling. Employing the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the work departs from the… Continue reading

    An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education « Learning Change

  • Logocentrism and the Unpreparedness of [Top] Students

    A recent commentary at the Chronicle of Higher Education centers on the lack of preparedness among even top students entering college at even the most selective universities. Above all, it’s time to acknowledge that even top students may have college-readiness… Continue reading

    Logocentrism and the Unpreparedness of [Top] Students

  • School text book: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A textbook used in one of Louisiana‘s voucher schools has a lot to say about the 1960s counterculture See on www.salon.com Related articles The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocalypse (keithwaynebrown.com) Getting rich off of schoolchildren… Continue reading

    School text book: Hippies were rude, didn’t bathe, worshipped Satan