When Institutions Forget How Things Were Built

Institutions often speak in the language of planning, alignment, efficiency, and sustainability. These are necessary words. No organization can function without structures, budgets, priorities, and decisions about the future. Yet there is a risk when this language becomes too narrow: it can begin to obscure the historical, technical, and pedagogical labor through which institutions are …

Innovating Online Education: Proctoring and AI Technologies to Support the New Learning Paradigm

1. Proctoring Center Despite a long-standing demand, BCC still lacks a dedicated proctoring room. Multiple efforts have been made to address this issue, including attempts to join a national consortium, yet these initiatives have not yet materialized. The absence of a proctoring facility poses a significant drawback, particularly as proctoring plays a vital role in …

Historia de fin de año

Estuve buscando esta historia y no he tenido la suerte de encontrarla. La escuche de un Sensei hace mucho tiempo y la quería compartir como anécdota de fin de año. Principalmente para los que somos educadores, y sabemos de las frustraciones de nuestras propias limitaciones. La historia la voy a modificar mínimamente para que tenga …

Tecnología, neoliberalización de la educación y el software de código abierto.

Hoy en día, la encrucijada de cómo enfrentar el desafío de nuevos paradigmas tecnológicos en muchos casos más tiene que ver con lo ideológico que con el tema de la infraestructura y recursos. Pensemos en los campos del software, la tecnología de la educación, las plataformas en el área del aprendizaje. Hay alternativas a cualquier …

#bccagora

A conversation about outsourcing education, higher education culture and adjunctivism. more info: http://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 …