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Selected Video, Webinars, Podcasts HyFlex Courses: The Challenge and Promise (Guest on the Unusually Well-Informed Podcast) HiFlex Design: Modalities & Mindsets for Planning (Keynote with M. Burtis for the Ohio Association of Community Colleges The Pedagogy of Pandemic: Open Learning for the Public Good (Keynote for Faculty of the Future) Leveraging OER During COVID-19 (Webinar Read More …
Introduction Recently, my public university announced its intention to begin a large-scale interdisciplinary initiative focused around clusters. As part of the initial phases of the planning, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning asked a variety of faculty members with interest/experience in interdisciplinarity to contribute a “a one-page document that synthesizes and distills information Read More …
Recent Articles, Chapters, Guest Blog Posts, & Interviews Writing from the wreckage: Austerity and the public university (2024) Chronic Illness is a Real Part of College Life (2022) Foreward to Hybrid Teaching (2021) Higher Education’s Big Rethink (2021) Values-Centered Instructional Planning (2020) Why is Zoom so Exhausting? (2020) The Shift to Remote Learning: The Human Read More …
This syllabus will change as the semester unfolds. Print at your own peril. 5/7/18 ALL OUTSTANDING GREENLIGHT ASSIGNMENTS DUE by 9pm. NO WIGGLE ROOM. Take-Home Portion of Final Exam (due to your ePort and our spreadsheet by 4pm today): Write an essay (not a bullet list of answers to these questions) summarizing your learning in this course. Be sure Read More …
TWITTER HASHTAG: psutheory Our spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gTiBnORP7OWipyrbVogSGIXgV14KmXpUkljaCSJx3es/edit?usp=sharing Tuesday, September 1 Intro & Expectations Introduction to OER, Digital Reading, Open Pedagogy Read Konnikova’s “Being a Better Online Reader” Open Educational Resources (OER) NOTE: This article comes from The New Yorker, and has been made freely available by the magazine at this link. Thursday, September 3 Grab the Read More …
To follow along with the text of this presentation, view the Google Slides version of the talk as I give it: http://bit.ly/rethinkingdistance. Here is the video for the keynote. The transcript follows below. [This version below has image descriptions, so may be the best version if you are using a screen reader.] Recently, I have Read More …
Last week, faculty, staff, administrators and students began participating in a new learning community here at Plymouth State University. The purpose of the community is to understand how pedagogy could or should develop under the new integrated cluster model that is emerging across our wider university. The pedagogies that the learning community is focusing on Read More …
Paul Kirschner is a professor at the Open University of the Netherlands and a leading educational psychologist. This summer, he tweeted this: In an interview about the tweet, he continued: The only thing I accept as ‘true’ is what is supported by high-quality research. I am a researcher. I suppose my Ph.D. in English qualifies Read More …
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 on the slide deck with embedded descriptions for your screen reader, if you want to Read More …
I am the director of Learning & Libraries and the director of the Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University, part of the University System of New Hampshire. The Open CoLab is a dynamic, praxis-powered hub dedicated to innovative teaching and learning and a community-driven approach to academic professional development; we focus on Read More …