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Owning Your Massive Numbers

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by Marina Cast. If a course is going to be pumped up on the massiveness of its open enrollment, it ought to own how much or little comes out at the other end. I still maintain that the idea of a “dropout” in an open course– […]

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Dearth of Good Writing

What has happened to good writing? Are we so reduced to status updating that the skills of forming coherent, interesting sentences, believable characters, and interesting plots has gone by the wayside? I am not talking about essays, articles, or even blogging- I am talking about when email spam was somewhat credible. I cannot accept that […]