Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D.

“There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that schools can operate safely, at least under certain circumstances. But no country that closed schools has attempted to reopen them with outb...

http://www.jonbecker.net/it-didnt-have-to-be-this-way/

Living at the intersections of education, technology, leadership, and policy.

http://www.jonbecker.net/preparing-for-just-in-time-remote-teaching-learning/

A recent article in Inside Higher Ed. features Ohio’s Eastern Gateway Community College, which “has grown its online programs rapidly in the last few years, with most of

http://www.jonbecker.net/distance-education-across-state-lines/

😂🤣😂 The very sole of our nation depends on it pic.twitter.com/PDTtZHO827 — The LeBron James of Pig Feet. (@GeeDee215) August 19, 2017

http://www.jonbecker.net/tweet-of-the-day-08-19-17-365project/

A little more context beyond that Twitter conversation: This summer, I am teaching two sections of the same course in our Ed.D. program ((One section is online and the other is f2f. I should prob...

http://www.jonbecker.net/storytelling-with-educational-data/

Looks like it’s OPM Week. I wish I knew in advance; I’d have dressed more appropriately. Kevin Carey, the vice president for education policy and knowledge management at New America and direc...

http://www.jonbecker.net/opms-in-the-news/

The original impetus for European sugarcane plantations was to obtain sugar not controlled by Muslims, but Europe was generally too cold to grow cane. When European voyages of discovery revealed ...

http://www.jonbecker.net/on-nonscalability-of-teaching-and-learning/

Two recent articles about higher education are about academic innovation more broadly, but raise a specific issue about information systems in higher education. In the first, Matt Reed, Vice Pres...

http://www.jonbecker.net/higher-ed-boxed-in/

I have long struggled to imagine myself writing a book. Even as an “academic” for over 15 years, writing a book never appealed to me for a lot of reasons, ranging from priorities to impostor ...

http://www.jonbecker.net/a-book-project/

(Double entendre warning…) Over the last 4+ days, I have been reading a LOT. A few of the articles I read kind of hung together in my head. The headlines below are linked to the articles if you...

http://www.jonbecker.net/regulating-social-media/