Author Archives: Steve Krause

Thurn’s “fall” and other MOOC notes of late

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Steve Krause

Not only am I racing to the end of the semester right now; I’m also racing to the end of the “MOOC book,” Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Online Open Courses. With any luck, I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Being a professor is like having a white collar job

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Steve Krause

Being a professor is like being a rodeo clown. Being in academia is like being in a frat. Being a professor is like being first mate on a pirate ship in the 18th century. Being in academia is like working … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Blogs, The Happy Academic | 4 Comments

Why faculty unions and strikes are unpleasant but necessary in higher education (an open letter to Alexander Coward)

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Steve Krause

Dear Alexander– You don’t know me and I don’t know you beyond your now viral email that I saw via Facebook, and I don’t know all the details of the striking actions taking place right now in the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in The Happy Academic, The Strike of 2006 | 12 Comments

Among other things, a Latour MOOC?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Steve Krause

Jeez, the blogging here has slowed down. I’ve been busy enough over at my hobby/community service blog, but the main reason I’ve been so slow in any blogging here I think has been kind swamped with things like the MOOC … Continue reading →

Posted in MOOCs, Writing | 2 Comments

WIDE-EMU 13 is in the books

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Steve Krause

Well, we did it again: Bill, Derek, and I organized and hosted WIDE-EMU 13, the third in a row for the free unconference (sort of) we thought up in a long car drive as much as a dare as it … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, EMU, The Happy Academic | 11 Comments

So much MOOC news, so little time

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Steve Krause

Dang, it’s been a crazy beginning of the semester around here lately. No posts in all of September (what??) and I’ve been trying to write this post for literally a couple of weeks! Besides all of the usual school things, … Continue reading →

Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship | 1 Comment

Miscellaneous Thoughts on Paris

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Steve Krause

Annette and Will and I came back home from Paris yesterday, which means I am uncertain as to what time it is right now. My clock (when I started this) says 5:50 AM, six hours behind where I was yesterday … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Travel | 3 Comments

MOOCs for classrooms, feminists, corporations, computer science majors, etc.

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Steve Krause

I’ve been traveling a lot lately, so my reading, writing, and editing about MOOCs (and pretty much everything else) has been pretty scattered to say the least. This is a post I’ve been writing off and on for about a … Continue reading →

Posted in MOOCs | 7 Comments

A little gardening update

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Steve Krause

A break from all the MOOC posting (though I have a brief another one of those in me I might get to yet today) to share a Flickr set and an update on the gardening for 2013. Part of what … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening | 4 Comments

Truths about MOOCs, Rees v Chait, and a bunch of other MOOC article links

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Steve Krause

It sure seems like there’s been a swing in both the education media and the main stream media against MOOCs as of late– that is, from what once seemed to me to be a blind faith of MOOCs being the … Continue reading →

Posted in MOOCs | 50 Comments