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…
Tag: Academia
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…
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…
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,…