Shooting children in the US now commonplace
tokyokevinAnother shooting. James Fallows (Atlantic) outlined why nothing would change after the Colorado movie theater massacre. He was sadly right. One reason I am happy to live in Japan. We…
Homework. Does it do any good?
I don't think so. If you consider what is traditionally considered homework (exercises to drill into memory some point taught in class), there is controversy. Andrew Sullivan over at the…
Madoka wins Speech Contest with Open Education
Madoka Madoka, a student in our department at Showa Women's University, won a week-long trip to Boston in the Hitomi Cup Speech Contest yesterday. In "Wonder brings a lifelong love…
MOOCs and testing: the other shoe drops
We've all been amazed by the proliferation of MOOCs in the last year. We were all wondering how these large universities were going to monitize the courses to cover expenses.…
Teaching Online: A grammar of course development
As a Professor in the Department of English Langauge and Communication, I could define my job as one of teaching students. I don't. I consider it an impossible task to…