Category: Open Courses
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Free Tutoring via TutorJam’s Access Program
A note from Nathan Arora, Co-Founder and President of Tutor Jam: I know your time is very valuable so I’ll try to be brief. TutorJam (www.tutorjam.com) is an online tutoring company with offices in Waterloo, Canada and Chapel Hill, NC offering K-12 tutoring to students in math, science, English and social studies. A key part…
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Rough Draft Thinking for a Hybrid Professional Development Experience
Well, we have a hybrid professional development experience coming up on September 24th for the Project WRITE teachers. In trying to meet a number of constraints and opportunities, I have set up a wiki page for the evening’s activities. Here is some of my thinking about why and how this is set up this way,…
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Reconsidering the “Grammar of Schooling” in a Digital Age
Tom Hanson from Open Education recently emailed me and alerted me to a post about technology infrastructure and professional development in schools. How Do We Ensure Our Schools Are Staffed with Technologically Savvy Teachers — Open Education Unfortunately, in many schools and for many teachers, the above five suggestions simply are not happening on a…
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Press Release: Open Yale Courses
Like MIT’s Open Course Ware, Yale is moving some of its content online and making it publicly available with a Creative Commons license. As a professor and digital writer, I applaud this move and hope that I can encourage my university, CMU, to move into that direction, too. Below is a copy of the press…