Someone should tell Donald Trump that unauthorized immigrants’ contribution to the U.S. economy is approximately $743 billion/year. Since unauthorized immigrants from Mexico are approximately 60% of them, their contribution is around $445 billion. 34 million Hispanics of Mexican origin reside in the United States legally, 11.4 million born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in…
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#bccagora
A conversation about outsourcing education, higher education culture and adjunctivism. more info: www.bccagora.org Saturday, May 10th from 9:00 am to noon – Berkeley City College, room 431 / 2050 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 There have been numerous conversations in the last few decades about the neoliberalization of higher education and how colleges and university are increasingly being conceived as…
What Adjuncts Do
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress” Frederick Douglass Thomas A. Foster is right in his article “What faculty do” when he describes the innumerable tasks that professors do during their tenure in universities. The idea that labor compensation in higher education is associated only with teaching is a sign that the person who…
@rjhogue writes in her blog “I did not leave the conference feeling that I was part of the community”
When Rebecca Hogue @rjhogue writes in her blog “I did not leave the conference feeling that I was part of the community” (referring to the MOOC Research Initiative conference in Arlington Texas #mri13) she is not alone. And perhaps this feeling of isolation is not because of her position, experience, connections or degree; I think it…
Academia and #MOOCs
MOOCs may be great as OER artifacts but from a practical pedagogical perspective, they are definitely not courses/classes. Classes are not (or should not be) simply unidirectional lectures or broadcastings. Classes require interaction and the development of ideas. Students construct the class; the teacher is just the guide and helper. The job of the teacher is to…
MOOCs and etc.
I am definitely not against MOOCs. I think everyone should open their courses, share materials, teach in the wild and understand the OER paradigm. I just disagree with the opinion that MOOCs are or can replace courses. At least not the MOOCs I have seen and I have seen many. I think the problem is…
Video CEL-MOOC#1
more about the CEL-MOOC group < a link
The tip of the iceberg in the area of instructional technology
In response to: @suifaijohnmak: Tell me more about this beginning of the instructional technology universe. Do you mean MOOCs or something more? I definitely think that we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg in the area of instructional technology. MOOCs are solid and dynamic new paradigms; but in the near future, the possibilities in this…
Posted in response to a conversation about “changes in academia” with a friend of mine
It is not that simple here in the US my dear friend John. Perhaps things are different in Australia or Europe, I do not know; but here in the US in academia, if you are tenure track or looking for a job, you do not have the power to question the status quo. Graduate schools…
The day the MOOC invented Social Media (a very short perspective about MOOCs)
by Fabian Banga After exploring this idea of the MOOC for several months, participating in several of them and reading everything I could find about this topic, I honestly think that the last C in MOOC should be seriously reconsidered or substituted for something more appropriate. Perhaps MOOE (for Event) would be more meaningful. Furthermore,…
The challenges of teaching online composition classes
(in-progress – for the 2013 edition of magazine Connections – FLANC) The importance of confronting the challenges of online classes and preventing those challenges, I would suggest, is more important than foreseeing the opportunities the classes will offer. The possibilities are unlimited in every class. However, understanding its level of unpredictability, seem to be common ground on online…