Medieval Robots
Medieval is the new modern.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
MOOCs and the Liberal Arts
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Nathan Heller's recent piece in The New Yorker about MOOCs at Harvard is fantastic. It's not as long as it could be (I rarely say ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Game of Thrones as Universal History
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Vin cent of Beauvais writing his universal history. BL MS Royal 14 E.i I recently had a conversation with a colleague about the limitati...
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Further Tales from The Library
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I had a rare treat this afternoon: I went to the brand, spanking-new Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Penn. The space is gorge...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Notes from The Pedagogue's Desk
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Several weeks ago, we began a new unit in the Medievalisms course that I'm teaching this semester. It's on fantasy and fan culture: ...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Not Content
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Recent articles and incisive blog posts about MOOCs, alongside few more recent news articles that present different ideas about the purpose ...
Saturday, April 6, 2013
The Dystopic Future of Education Is Here
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What an eye-opening week for higher education! Thanks to the folks at EdX, computers will soon be grading college papers. "The sy...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Game of Thrones Is Better on TV
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I'm teaching a course on medievalism this semester, and one of things I've assigned is an episode of "Game of Thrones" (S1...
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