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Covid has forced pretty much everyone teaching in higher and K-12 education to become at least proficient in online teaching and learning. The learning curve is steeper for some than it is for ot...

https://edwired.org/no-wild-ducks-online/

The sudden shift from face to face learning to online learning as a result of the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted multiple deficiencies across institutions of higher education — everything from...

https://edwired.org/hybrid-challenges/

When it comes to the transition to online teaching and online learning, I’m one of the lucky ones. I was already teaching online this semester, so I didn’t have to scramble to make the transi...

https://edwired.org/lighten-up/

Right now, everyone is scrambling. We’re trying to move to 100% remote work, 100% remote teaching, homeschooling our children, making sure the pantry is full, worrying what this all means for o...

https://edwired.org/what-foundations-can-do/

When I agreed to take over as Executive Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media back in July, one of the first things I did was speak to our faculty, staff, and graduate s...

https://edwired.org/who-knew/

This morning’s National Public Radio show included yet another story on “essay mills,” those dastardly buy-an-essay businesses that will write students’ essays for them for a fee. Of cour...

https://edwired.org/should-we-keep-teaching-writing/

North America is lousy with ghost trails. Most of us walk right past them without noticing, or if we do, don’t stop to think about what we just saw, why it’s there, who (or what) made it, how...

https://edwired.org/ghost-trails/

Yesterday I was honored to take part in a digital history seminar that gave its participants an opportunity to reflect on the life and accomplishments of our friend and colleague Peter Haber who ...

https://edwired.org/peter-haber-five-years-after/

Last week I had the unenviable task of culling the life of my mother-in-law, aged 81. In some ways I was the perfect person for this task, because in my sister-in-law’s garage there were 32 ban...

https://edwired.org/culling-a-life/

“Our students come first.” That’s what it says on page five of George Mason University’s Strategic Plan. As one of the authors of that document back in 2014, I’m always happy when this ...

https://edwired.org/its-not-all-about-me/