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…
Category: English
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,…
2013 RMMLA-Vancouver (USA) – Call for Papers
Open Education: Challenges and Possibilities* Contact: Fabian Banga, Berkeley City College; fbanga@peralta.edu Description: Challenges and opportunities with the use of open learning materials and technologies, including any learning, teaching and research resources in the public domain; such as open courses and course materials (courseware), open textbooks, and MOOCs . *2013 RMMLA-VANCOUVER (USA)
Contemporary Latin American literature – MOOC
Para los que estén interesados, vamos a ofrecer un MOOc (massive open online “course”) “spanish 38” que será una extensión del curso en BCC Spanish 38, Introducción a la Literatura Latinoamericana, de la primavera del 2013. Este MOOC es enteramente en español, no es por crédito, no requiere asistencia obligatoria, no tendrá exámenes u otro tipo de evaluación…
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…