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Open Ed Talk: Keeping the Person in Personalized Learning
On March 20, 2024, I gave a talk (rant?) about keeping the person in personalized learning. The slides can best be described as a collection of angry screenshots, so I won’t be sharing them, but in the off chance anyone is interested in the sources/information, here it is: Student Works I highlighted:
You don’t have to mandate ice cream
I heard today that once upon a time, CUNY tried to mandate that every faculty member be required to use Blackboard and only Blackboard. That attempt was unsuccessful, as I hope this draft policy will be as well, for the same reason- if the LMS is good (as we have been promised it is), then […]
One LMS to rule them all?
one LMS to find them, one LMS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them The draft policy for mandatory sole LMS usage is a massive incursion into academic freedom. While the EVP has offered several reasons for this policy, none of them justify this curtailing of instructors’ academic freedom. Isildur had good reasons […]
Does it though?
(TL:DR summary: increasing administrative efficiency does not justify radically curtailing academic freedom, surveilling instructors and students, and limiting innovation and real world experience for our classes.) Does the draft policy forced LMS use actually do what it says it does? The University-supported LMS is CUNY’s only platform for delivery of online instruction that: Overall: increasing […]
Draft LMS Policy is a giant lump of coal for faculty and students
“Lump of coal” is the most suitable-for-work way I can describe the terrible draft policy on LMS usage I received today. I can’t find anything about this policy on the EVP’s website despite the memo indicating them as the “Policy Owner,” so I’ve put a digital copy up here if you’d like to read it; […]
