Category Archives: Academia

English Composition I Week 2 and 3

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Steve Krause

April is always the cruelest month in academia because it’s near (or, at EMU, is) the end of the semester, which means there are all kinds of last meetings, end of the school year celebrations and recognitions, planning for spring/summer … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Scholarship, Writing | 9 Comments

ATTW & CCCCs in Vegas

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Steve Krause

Before writing this post, I looked through what I wrote last year about the CCCCs in St. Louis and in a lot of ways, this CCCCs in Las Vegas was remarkably similar to that CCCCs: my semester/year is/has been complicated, … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, MOOCs, Scholarship | 5 Comments

On having “The Least Stressful” Job of 2013

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Steve Krause

Making its rounds on the intertubes yesterday was this article/blog post/something by Susan Adams at Forbes, “The Least Stressful Jobs of 2013.” The winner? University professor, of course! The article is so factually inaccurate in so many different ways that there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Fun, The Happy Academic | 13 Comments

A few miscellaneous comments on online teaching, what I learned about eCollege (again), and MOOCs

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Steve Krause

I’ve been pretty crazy-busy this semester because I took on too much and because there were things I could not refuse. So the blog has been pretty neglected lately, mostly because I’ve been thinking and writing about online stuff and … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Computers, technology, etc., MOOCs, Scholarship, Teaching, Technology | 6 Comments

WIDE-EMU 2012: A Few Misc. Thoughts

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Steve Krause

WIDE-EMU 2012 (or is it WIDE-EMU 2?) happened Saturday at Michigan State and it all seemed to go off without a hitch, more or less.  There might be more later, but I thought I’d  write a down a few thoughts … Continue reading →

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Five ways EdX can help “the little people:” you know, community colleges, etc.

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Steve Krause

I still have a “what’s good about MOOCs” and/or “MOOCs are textbooks” post in me, but I wanted to post briefly about an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, “5 Ways That edX Could Change Education” that came out a few … Continue reading →

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Mooc Link clean-up time

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Steve Krause

I have a post in mind about what is good about the MOOC thing as far as I can tell and I think I’m going to be proposing something with Bill HD and some others about MOOCs for ATTW. But … Continue reading →

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17 more universities jump aboard the Coursera express

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Steve Krause

Because I have a Coursera account (which apparently makes me a “Courserian”), I received the email below this morning about seventeen more universities joining in with Coursera.  You can read the whole thing, but to me, this is starting to … Continue reading →

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“What did we learn here and what’s it worth to you?” The end of World Music, part 2

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Steve Krause

I probably have only two or three more posts in me about MOOCs generally and World Music in particular. This is one that I’ve been working on off and on while the course was wrapping up.  I don’t know if … Continue reading →

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The end of the World Music MOOC (part 1)

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Steve Krause

Well, that’s it:  I’ve reached the end of Coursera’s World Music,  and it seems like over the last seven weeks the MOOC talk in CHE and InsideHigherEd and other places has done nothing but get even more out of hand.  I was going to catalog/index … Continue reading →

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