One of the interesting things that is going on right now is that MOOC providers, unable to find a path to sustainability in the direct-to-consumer market, have now positioned themselves as providers of materials for campus-based flipped classes, part of a larger trend Amy Collier and I have been referring to as the “distributed flip”. Continue reading

I gave a presentation at InstructureCon last week on the distributed flip, and in particular, how it related to MOOCs. I thought the session went extremely well, and when the video is available a couple weeks from now I’ll post it. But I wanted to get the main argument down here. I flew through it Continue reading

This is a short presentation I gave our advisory board at the college recently. What I wanted to explain to the board (mostly businessmen and political people) is why we are looking at Open Course Frameworks with Lumen/Kaleidoscope. For the uninitiated, Open Course Frameworks are to commercial courseware what open textbooks are to textbooks. The Continue reading

So I’ve taken a bit of ribbing for my Chromebook purchase since the PRISM leak (although it’s increasingly looking like PRISM is overstated, and other aspects not tied to providers are understated — so I guess we’re all going to stop using the internet and phone service now…).  But as quirky as my little $250 Continue reading

Today I learned that Justin Reich is going to HarvardX as a research fellow. That’s good news for Harvard and open access online efforts in general, since Justin is nothing if not ambivalent about recent developments, and the CourdacityX space needs more ambivalent people.  The fact they have brought him reaffirms my belief that edX Continue reading