Comments for University of Venus http://uvenus.org GenX women on work, life, and higher education Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Teacher as Team Leader? Maybe by Ejz http://uvenus.org/2012/01/23/teacher-as-team-leader-maybe/#comment-2373 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:58:07 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3031#comment-2373 Ordinary article… Nothing new!

]]> Comment on How Journals Put Us Behind the Times by Phil Palladino http://uvenus.org/2012/02/16/how-journals-put-us-behind-the-times/#comment-2368 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:20:20 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3067#comment-2368 I am not in the academe. I am astounded by the hoops that you folks have to jump through to get an article published in a journal. I like the possibilities of blogging, the interaction it provides, the conversation that is possible, the refining of ideas, and the probability that the thought is current and appropriate for today’s discourse. Great article.

]]> Comment on Networking aka Getting Outside the Comfort Zone by curtrice http://uvenus.org/2012/01/25/networking-aka-getting-outside-the-comfort-zone/#comment-2324 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:56:29 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3038#comment-2324 Great story. I think it’s good to get a challenge and to try to meet it. But I also think organizations can facilitate networking much more than we tend to do. At universities, faculties tend to be silos, but it doesn’t take much to create contacts across those boundaries when there’s a little help. I hosted a “write in” week for about 40 women on my campus, as part of a project to get more women ready for promotion to full professor. One of the most frequent comments at the end of the week was the value of meeting women from other faculties. I wrote about this experience a little in “Four crucial steps for hosting a successful write in” at http://bit.ly/write-in

]]> Comment on Administration Ambitions by profjanniaragon http://uvenus.org/2012/01/21/administration-ambitions/#comment-2317 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:10 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3024#comment-2317 Thanks for your comment. Yes, there are lots of us out there, but we are at times quiet about this desire. I’m hopeful that it will happen for both of us. And, thanks for reading the post.

Sent from my iPad!

]]> Comment on UVenus Networking Challenge by Networking aka Getting Outside the Comfort Zone « University of Venus http://uvenus.org/2011/09/17/uvenus-networking-challenge/#comment-2316 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:15:34 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=2813#comment-2316 [...] semester I signed up for the University of Venus Networking Challenge. The challenge asked readers to reach outside of their departments and meet people in other [...]

]]> Comment on Administration Ambitions by JoVE http://uvenus.org/2012/01/21/administration-ambitions/#comment-2309 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:38:57 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3024#comment-2309 When I first took an administrative job the most common reaction was something that seemed like they were wondering if I should be committed. I started being more circumspect, especially with the social work department since they actually know how to get someone committed :-)

No one could understand why I would WANT to be an administrator. You are right. We need more people in administration who want to be there and have a desire to make things better.

]]> Comment on Administration Ambitions by Molly http://uvenus.org/2012/01/21/administration-ambitions/#comment-2304 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:23:44 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=3024#comment-2304 I’m pretty sure you could have plucked every single word of this post straight from my brain. I appreciate knowing I am not completely alone in the world of ‘desires to be an educating administrator’. Thank you for some inspiration!

]]> Comment on Two Worlds Colliding by Lori Roe http://uvenus.org/2012/01/05/two-worlds-colliding/#comment-2260 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:03:27 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=2986#comment-2260 Bonnie,

Your blog post led me to register for the course. I look forward to exploring the past weeks’ content.

What impact, if any, do you see this type of course having on traditional higher education?

Lori

]]> Comment on Two Worlds Colliding by Bonnie http://uvenus.org/2012/01/05/two-worlds-colliding/#comment-2246 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:48:26 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=2986#comment-2246 additionally, Molly, if you’d like to get involved in #change11, Howard Rheingold is this week’s facilitator and you can register here: http://change.mooc.ca/cgi-bin/login.cgi?action=Register. the more the merrier!

]]> Comment on Two Worlds Colliding by Bonnie http://uvenus.org/2012/01/05/two-worlds-colliding/#comment-2245 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:46:50 +0000 http://uvenus.org/?p=2986#comment-2245 hi Molly – happy to offer what I can.

MOOCs more or less got started a few years back, with David Wiley’s work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley), some of the open courses offered by Alec Couros (http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/) and others. The term was formalized in 2008 when Stephen Downes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Downes) and George Siemens (http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm) offered an open online course on George’s theory of connectivism that drew hundreds of students. dubbed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), this course has been the model for a continuing series and has been taken up by other educators and leaders, especially within the educational technologies community. I got involved through my partner, Dave Cormier, who has facilitated a number of them with Stephen and George. in 2010, George, Dave, and my one of my faculty advisors and I conducted a research study on the phenomenon: our final paper is here. http://davecormier.com/edblog/wp-content/uploads/MOOC_Final.pdf

similar models have more recently been taken up by Stanford and, as of late December, MITx.

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