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Academia

Unsolicited advice about academic job interviews

In this throwback from 2011, I give six pieces of advice to academic job-seekers and some updated thoughts for 2022.

Higher Education

Radical simplification redux

A podcast episode with my thoughts on "radical simplification", and two additional related thoughts.

Higher Education

Losing our nerve

I am worried not so much that we are losing students, funding, or our currency with the general public. My worry is that we're losing our nerve.

Mastery Grading

A word about words

Why David Clark and I are dropping the term "mastery grading" in our upcoming book on that subject.

Academia

Three ground rules for academic work

It's time for faculty and administrators who can do something about the creeping time demands of academic work, to step up.

Academia

The power of communities of practice

As a Presidential Fellow, the biggest thing I've learned is the centrality of communities.

Online learning

Can hyflex be made to work?

Hyflex is a toxic brand for many college faculty, but it is still a good idea on paper. What needs to be in place to make it work?

Higher Education

On ceding power to learners

Higher education faces a choice about whether or not it will deliver an empowered educational experience.

Grading

Moving on from rigor

If "rigor" is a meaningless term then what should we be using? What are we really talking about?

Mastery Grading

Specifications grading and "help"

Can students in a specs grading setting do work without help? Do we care?

Academia

Doing what you can, with what you've got

A plea and some suggestions for breaking the loop of fear and hopelessness heading into Fall 2021.

Productivity

How to handle Inbox Infinity

How I'd handle an email inbox that's too full even to contemplate.

Teaching

Building Fall 2021: Discrete Structures

A work-in-progress report on my Fall 2021 classes, one month before launch.

Academia

Ungrading: A 3x3x3 reflection

Ungrading is gaining traction in K12 and higher education. Here's what I learned from a recent edited volume on this concept.

Academia

Entering the feedback loop: My origin story with alternative grading

Sometimes all it takes to get started with a new idea is just to start and then follow through.

Academia

Two important questions about Inbox Zero

The Inbox Zero concept elicits a broad range of responses from academics, mostly negative. Here are the two most important questions we can ask about it.

Academia

Working in context

So you made a Next Actions list. How do you decide which actions to do? The constraints on those actions give us a clue.

Academia

Working mindfully with projects

How do you give appropriate attention to things you want to do, that require multiple steps?

Academia

How much research has been done on flipped learning? The 2021 update

Updating the annual data on the number of peer-reviewed publications on flipped learning, this time with the numbers for 2020.

Balance

Clarifying what you captured

Anything that we capture in our attention needs clarification about what it means to us. Here's a process for doing that.

Technology

How to add captions to videos (including different languages)

I avoided captioning videos for a long time out of sheer laziness, but it turns out it's not that hard with the right workflow.

Academia

Introducing the Summer Challenge

This summer I'm starting a weekly series focused on building habits, practices, and mindsets to inoculate against burnout and exhaustion in the Fall.

Academia

How to write learning objectives

Writing clear, measurable learning objectives for lesson seems simple; it isn't. Here are some steps that can make it easier.

Academia

The semester that was, Part 2: A 3x3x3 reflection on Modern Algebra

Another 3x3x3 reflection on my Winter courses, this time my Modern Algebra class.

Academia

The semester that was: A 3x3x3 reflection on Calculus

What I learned, what surprised me, and what I still don't know about the Calculus class that just finished up.