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Randy Pausch's Boldest Innovation

A central concern with MOOCs and other student directed learning experiences is that by decentering the traditional gatekeeping role of teachers, such experiences lack an authoritative center for determining the rigor and depth of a course as well judging the mastery of learning outcomes by students. In a traditional one-to-many style of pedagogy, teachers simultaneously perform the roles of content creator, disseminator, and arbitrator of student success. The basis for academic rigor is based on structures such as the credit hour – students meet for three hours a week, complete three hours of homework between meetings, and repeat this cycle for 15 weeks.

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Professional Development and Higher Education IT

When it comes to the importance of professional development, the EDUCAUSE community has spoken. In the 2012 edition of The Top-Ten Issues in Higher Education IT, members identified “Updating IT professionals’ skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery models” as the number one issue facing their institutions today....

Why I’m Looking Forward to EDUCAUSE Next Week

Next week is the annual EDUCAUSE conference, with this year’s event returning to the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. Attending the annual EDUCAUSE event remains one of the highlights of my fall semester. Here are some of the things I am looking forward to next week.

  1. Giving something back. The EDUCAUSE events provide each of us the opportunity to give back some of that special knowledge and experience that we have developed over the past year. We are...

The Importance of Doing Enterprise (and Infrastructure)

...as Oscar Wilde well might have titled an essay about campus-wide IT, had there been such a thing back then. Enterprise IT it accounts for the lion's share of campus IT staffing, expenditure, and risk. Yet it receives curiously little attention in national discussion of IT's strategic higher-education role. Perhaps that should change.

Two questions arise:

  • What does "Enterprise" mean within higher-education IT?
  • Why might...

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