The Owlfred Chronicles

I recently met Dr. Diana E. E. Kleiner, a distinguished professor at my alma mater and director of the Open Yale Courses initiative. We were talking about “OpenStudying the Classics”—to my knowledge, the first use of “OpenStudy” as a verb.[1] This made me think—what does it mean to “OpenStudy” something? Some background first. In collaboration with Dean Preetha Ram [...]

One of the biggest challenges of online study is students’ need for real-time help. This is one of the things that education, right now, does not do very well–message boards, blogs, and even OpenStudy have a handle on asynchronous learning, but when a student needs to have their question answered right that moment because he [...]