Category Archives: Scholarship

Week 5 of English Composition 1

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Steve Krause

Before news about Composition I, some MOOC reading round-up: As Nick Carbone pointed out on the WPA-L mailing list, it seems like journalists taking and reporting on MOOCs has become all the rage as of late. Just goes to show … Continue reading →

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An idea for a CCCCs panel: How about the teachers amongst us who have been MOOC students?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Steve Krause

I might have an idea for a proposal for the annual Conference of College Composition and Communication, which will be happening in 2014 in Indianapolis March 19-22.  The theme in the call for proposals (this is a PDF) is “Open | … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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MOOC and Pony Show

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Steve Krause

(And that blog title was brought to you by Derek who named my just completed trip the “MOOC and Pony Show.”) A while ago (maybe two months ago?), I was invited to give a talk about MOOCs at the American … Continue reading →

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Presidential Footnote

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Steve Krause

The other day via the trackback notifications here, I learned that MLA President (or I guess now past President?) Michael Bérubé mentioned one of my previous blog post in his recent 2013 Presidential Address, though he doesn’t quote me per se. Hey, … Continue reading →

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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

More on MOOCs, writing in November

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Steve Krause

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about MOOCs or anything else, mainly because I’ve been pretty swamped with teaching and other work-related things, far too busy to have stayed active in either of the Coursera courses I had signed … Continue reading →

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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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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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