It is a truth universally acknowledged that it is impossible to tell how striking a particular piece of writing is until you’ve read several dozen examples of that genre. This applies to genres of novel as much as it applies to essays and cover letters. Purely in the interests of…
In my last entry on MOOCs, Massive Online Open Courses, I mentioned that one of the reasons I felt that some MOOCs didn’t offer an educational experience as high in quality as traditional, in-person university courses is because qualitatively evaluating the work of thousands of students poses a huge problem…
(Apparently one pronounces the acronym for Massive Online Open Course “mook.” I did not know this until hearing them discussed at a teaching workshop on distance learning.) As a post-secondary instructor and someone who loves taking classes, I’ve been fascinated by the MOOC model of learning, in which universities and experts…
Books MG/YA fiction The Emerald Atlas ( **** – liked) Homeland ( *** – enjoyed) Fiction Body Double (**** – liked) Vanish (**** – liked) Daybreak (**** – liked) The Sisters Brothers (**** – liked) Non-fiction Outliers: The Story of Success (**** – liked) The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How…