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 …

Dissertation: Brujos, espiritistas y vanguardistas: la representación del esoterismo y el espiritualismo en las obras de Roberto Arlt, Vicente Huidobro y Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Abstract Brujos, espiritistas y vanguardistas: la representación del esoterismo y el espiritualismo en las obras de Roberto Arlt, Vicente Huidobro y Ramón del Valle-Inclán by Fabián Marcelo Banga Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages & Literatures University of California, Berkeley Professor Francine Masiello, Chair One of the aesthetic projects of the vanguard literary movements in …