What does Hybrid actually mean?

Generally, when you enroll in college, you see different courses in the catalog.

“What’s this? Online. That makes sense. It’s an online course.”

Right or Privilage?

This last week I had the pleasure of seeing former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich speak at InstructureCon in Park City, Utah.

His talk was quite boring for me honestly, because he spoke of the obvious. He spoke of rising tuition costs, continued cuts to education…

The Rise of the Adjuncts

As you may have noticed in recent years, the hiring of adjuncts has increased considerably, most notably after the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis). Almost all adjuncts I’ve ever worked with are passionate instructors, dedicated to their students’ success and willing to help them…

Extending Canvas

So a faculty member asked me a few days ago how she can put things in canvas that will make it more fun for students. ANGEL had graded crosswords, and a couple of other tools that could be added in.

Apps

On Net Neutrality

The fundamental idea behind net neutrality is that the information we receive online is given equal access to us, that is movies don’t get better access to us than an academic article or a small college’s website. The audiences that certain content can reach is on an even playing field and…

Let’s Let go of Files

More and more these days, people are using “The Cloud” for work and school.

The idea that we need files to download and work with is becoming less and less of a necessity.

Competency-based Education: the solution to all our problems?

In my role as an eLearning Director at a small technical college in Washington state, I attended a series of workshops put on by Western Governor’s University, going over various aspects of their online competency-based…