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For the last several months, I’ve wanted to write something to document the remarkable experience I have had being a part of the Interdisciplinary Studies program here at Plymouth State University. I keep waiting to have the time to do justice to the richness of this experience, but it’s clear that uninterrupted time like that Read More …
Open Pedagogy. I’m taking a 15-minute break in a busy afternoon to sketch out some thoughts ahead of the #YearOfOpen hangout happening in a few minutes. Access. If we care about book costs, it’s because we understand that the real cost of college goes beyond tuition. If we care about the real cost of college, Read More …
I’ve spent some time talking about open pedagogy at several universities this Spring, and in each of those presentations and workshops, I have usually mentioned The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature, an OER anthology that my students and I produced last year for an American literature survey course I taught. When I talk about Read More …
Good afternoon! A note about accessibility before I begin. If you would like to follow along with the written version of this talk, you can visit http://bit.ly/palakeynote. That link will also have the images on the slide deck with embedded descriptions for your screen reader, and the embedded video has closed captions. I was Read More …
Today, I participated in a Virtually Connecting session featuring some great folks, including Jess Mitchell, one of the keynote speakers from this year’s Open Education conference in Niagara Falls. I was so struck by her answer to a question by Hal Plotkin about what assessment could look like from an “open” perspective that I transcribed Read More …
In this post, I am going to describe #Opensem, an Open-Pedagogy-powered First-Year Seminar (FYS) that I taught this past Fall at my small, public university in New Hampshire. While following certain parameters set by the university regarding learning outcomes and goals for the FYS program, I ran the course as an experiment in radical OpenPed. Read More …
In October 2016, I was invited to give an Ignite Talk at the Digital Media and Learning conference at UC-Irvine. Ignite Talks are exactly five minutes long, with twenty slides that auto-advance every fifteen seconds. For those who prefer a text version, here are the slides with the transcript (or the transcript of what I Read More …
The First Year Seminar: Critical Thinking and the Nature of Inquiry Introduces students to the concepts of general education and the academic community and to the skills educated people use to generate and address important questions. Using critical thinking skills and basic tools of gathering and evaluating information, students and the instructor together engage in Read More …
Tuesday 11/15/16 PROJECT RUBRIC IS HERE Group Assignments are here. Research Thursday 11/17/16 PROJECT RUBRIC IS HERE Research Tuesday 11/22/16 PROJECT RUBRIC IS HERE Paper Due: 7 pages minimum, 7 sources minimum, with: hyperlinks, openly-licensed images, Works Cited section. Posted to at least one ePort. FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD, CREATE Read More …
I am writing this from OpenEd15 in Vancouver. And this is a call to my like-minded compatriots spread across our conference rooms here, but also to the tweeps and digitalactivists I’ve worked with online over the last two years. After three days of sessions focused on reducing textbook costs, creating all-OER degree programs, generating data Read More …