It is striking how different the support models are for online education at different CCC schools. There's not one right way to do it, but under-resourced is under-resourced. #virtualOTC

Slides illustrating how the Student Support Hub concept has come to fruition at 4 California Community Colleges: docs.google.com/presentation/d… Thanks Gregory Beyrer !

Excellent commentary on the possible, the challenging, and the middle ground reality of online teaching (esp. in the humanities), WITH EXAMPLES - so needed. Only addition I'd suggest is conflation of MOOCs with online ed in the ed press reflection of research on online ed.

Dear Achieving the Dream thanks for the Teaching and Learning Toolkit. achievingthedream.org/resource/18241… It looks super but why-oh-why would you put a No Derivatives license on it? Wouldn't it be better to allow institutions to adapt it for optimal local uses?

This is taking a stand - leading 3-1 in the final game of the season with a potential playoff place on the line, and choosing to uphold principles far greater than "winning." Well done San Diego Loyal . Hope to be in the stands next season.

For anyone following #detche20 and wondering why it's kinda quiet (thanks though to Dr. Jenae Cohn (@[email protected]) and @dmaduliwilliams !), the conference also has open chat in Zoom, Pronto as another backchannel, and Nooks.in as yet another informal connection space #abundance

One of my kids who is in college sent me this communication from her prof. I am so baffled at this approach to assessment. Can someone explain why an instructor would WANT to see students scoring between 60 and 70% on a test?

Not a surprise: insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/1… "Security" measures are not a substitute for co-creating a culture of learning, respect, and mutual commitment to privacy.

Without minimizing complexities in "return to campus" planning, I'm especially focused on: (1) How to build on positive experiences of faculty and students w/ emergent course modalities (2) How to clearly communicate course options/expectations & help students select good fits.

Seems odd to me for K-12 leaders to decide the online option going forward is a canned curriculum with teachers checking in with students once every two weeks. Isn't this a moment to change that model? sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education…

And if you're tempted to use "best" as an adjective relating to a technology or an educational practice, ask "best for whom and in what context"? What's the evidence? Would words such as "promising" or "emergent" be more appropriate, given the evidence?

Jim Julius 💯. And also “best” according to whom? Who is the arbiter of this best? What are the inherent values and assumptions in defining practices & tech as useful, let alone best? I use “effective” if an adjective is helpful, but the underlying questions you ask are the important ones.

.Dr. Jenae Cohn (@[email protected]) great article on edtech selection processes/disconnects. chronicle.com/article/who-ch… I'm fortunate to be faculty & in tech influencing role. Drafted guide for faculty selecting tech, feedback was "feels like a path to 'no'": docs.google.com/document/d/1-k… Would love your take!

MiraCosta College, a California Community College in north coastal San Diego County is (finally!) hiring its first permanent instructional designer! jobs.miracosta.edu/postings/2448

Only needs "because studies show a 32% increase in learning" to cover pretty much the breadth and depth of edtech hype for the last 25+ years.

This captures the truth, promise, and challenge of online education as well as anything I've ever read. Thank you, Michelle Pacansky-Brock, for your incredible leadership.

.George Siemens opens #eli23 with a talk on AI and the "space for humanity" ... starts w/ overview of multiple perspectives on recent developments in AI. Wish he might have delved a bit more into ethics - doomerism hype vs. actual present issues we in ed should be considering.

.George Siemens hasn't said "connectivism" but very much still talking about the importance of networks to humans generally, and in learning (yay!). Implications when AI agents are part of our networks? "Humans will bond with anything." #eli23

When I hear "I don't like teaching online b/c it's impossible to 'read the room' b/c I can't require cameras on" I just hear that we haven't adequately helped faculty approach teaching online differently. #eli23

Love that a major takeaway from this AWS and univ admin presentation on "future-fitting higher ed" using data is: A powerful data collection method is paying for a lunch where students have personal conversations with IT staff about their experiences. #eli23