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Author Archives: actualham
University of the Margins: Institutional Structures and Open Practice
This is my unkeynote address for the AMICAL Conference 2019 at the American University in Cairo. Universities are, in many ways, centers. They are places of coherence, with focused (and often noble) missions related to learning and education. But as … Continue reading
The Future of the Public Mission of Universities
Keynote for “Making Knowledge Public,” the 2018 President’s Dream Colloquium at Simon Fraser University I would like to begin by acknowledging the Squamish, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie and Kwikwetlem peoples on whose traditional territories Simon Fraser’s three campuses stand. And back … Continue reading
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Tagged OER, Open Access, open pedagogy, privatization, public higher education
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A Human Framework for Institutional Innovation
Keynote: Technology Enabled Seminar and Showcase, Toronto, 2018 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/TESS18. That link will also have the images … Continue reading
The Library is Open: Keynote for the 2018 Pennsylvania Library Association Conference
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 … Continue reading
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Facebook: Delete and Stay
So I deactivated my Facebook a few months ago to enjoy a more distraction-free sabbatical, and there wasn’t really a minute where I missed it. I considered deleting it this week for a few reasons. The company’s ethics are crap, … Continue reading
Open Assessment: The Parable of the Scorpion, with Jess Mitchell
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 … Continue reading
Open Pedagogy at the Program Level: The #PlymouthIDS Case Study
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged connected learning, higher ed, Interdisciplinarity, OER, open pedagogy, PlymouthIDS
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Open Pedagogy: Quick Reflection for #YearOfOpen
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 … Continue reading
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Extreme Makeover: Pedagogy Edition
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged OER, Open Educational Resources, open pedagogy, OpenPed, opensem
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“Open” for the Public: Using Open Education to Build a Case for Public Higher Ed
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 … Continue reading
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