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I'm a writer and a professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. You can learn more than you want to learn about me by clicking on "about." You can contact me by sending email to skrause at emich dot edu.
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The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed MOOCs (and other pre-sabbatical thoughts)
I’ve been re-reading The Sun Also Rises lately as my just before sleep reading, so hopefully some Hemingway folks will understand my reference. Anyway, I find myself with some MOOCs not taken regrets and some MOOC plans that might be more … Continue reading
Posted in Life, MOOCs, Sabbatical Lite, Scholarship, The Happy Academic
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Don’t Panic and Bring a Towel
I’ve got at least two other blog posts in mind to write (not to mention lots of end of the semester/school year stuff), but I thought I’d try to write something this morning about Marc Bousquet’s CHE commentary “The Moral … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Scholarship, The Happy Academic, Writing
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Thoughts on “Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor”
I’ve watched “Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor” twice now today, even though I don’t have anywhere close to enough time to be doing that– and I don’t have time to write this post, either. But I kind … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Teaching, The Happy Academic
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A few random thoughts on the VCU MFA reunion
This coming weekend is the 30th anniversary reunion for Virginia Commonwealth University’s MFA program in creative writing. Originally, I thought I was going, but delays in information about the schedule of events, conflicting life events and obligations, and this pesky day … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Fun, Life, Writing
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CCCC 14 in Indianapolis Recap
A recap of (for me) a very MOOC-centric CCCCs, more or less in this order and/or with some recall help from my Twitter feed as notes: Indianapolis is about a four hour drive from Ypsilanti, so even though I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, MOOCs, The Happy Academic
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Get your copy of “Invasion of the MOOCs” Today!
Well, it’s finally and officially here: Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses, edited by me and Charlie Lowe, is out, available for sale and as a free PDF download. Parlor Press is selling the … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship, The Happy Academic, Writing
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Not Dead Yet
Let me start with what I think Ann Larson and I both agree about, at least as she discusses it in her post “Rhetoric and Composition’s Dead.” I think collective bargaining/unionization for academics is a good thing: faculty, lecturers, part-timers, and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, The Happy Academic
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Coming soon/by the CCCCs: Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses
I am happy to report that the book of essays that Charlie Lowe and I have been editing is that much closer to being out. It’s called Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promises and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses, it’s being … Continue reading
Posted in MOOCs, Scholarship, Writing
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What is this, “MLA?”
About a month ago, Annette and I both received a Facebook message from a grad school friend of ours asking if we were going to MLA this year. My smart-ass reply was “What is this ‘MLA?’” As I have mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, The Happy Academic
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Three things that could (maybe) change the academic job market in small, medium, and large ways
I’m still procrastinating on getting ready for the start of the winter term (we call it winter and not spring here– and for good reason– and it starts next week), and for whatever reason, I can’t quite let go of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Blogging about blogging, The Happy Academic
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