Web Monetization: A Radically Optimistic Economic Future
I attended two sessions at OE Global 2021 that were about “Web Monetization”. OK, to be truthful, I never would have chose these sessions to attend if I wasn’t “assigned” …
Read MoreTowards a Manifesto for Liberatory Open Education
At the 2020 Open Education Conference this past November, Tanya Elias and I co-facilitated a participatory session, where we shared our draft Manifesto for how we began to imagine Liberatory …
Read MoreOpen Ecosystem
I made this fun gif to illustrate some key components of the open ecosystem and the ways in which Open Education encompasses all of them. via GIPHY If you like …
Read MoreA Special Kind of Hell
Un-Grading is Another Kind of Grading I’ve been teaching for more than 27 years, but it is just in the last five that I stopped grading traditionally, and so I …
Read MoreA Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology
Pressbooks version: A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology Printable/downloadable PDF version of the book: Digital/downloadable PDF version of the book: A Student’s Request During the Fall 2016 semester, a …
Read MoreAn Inter-institutional, International Collaboration: The KPU-KSC virtual OPLC
The Keene State College Open Pedagogy Learning Community (OPLC) is now in it’s sixth semester! We are excited to be doing something a little different this year as we have …
Read MoreThe Positive Feedback Loop of Open Pedagogy
Despair It is really easy to feel overwhelmed these days. The increasing corporatization and dehumanization of higher ed in the U.S. right now feels like watching a train wreck that …
Read MoreBut You Can’t Do That In a STEM Course!
[Originally Published in Hybrid Pedagogy on June 26, 2018 and reproduced here. ] • • • “I spent a whole year learning about all the different kinds of clouds. I still refer …
Read MoreThoughts on Student Agency
Agency by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images Of the many possible defining aspects of open pedagogy, I am realizing that it might just be centering student agency and learner-driven structures …
Read MoreTowards a Practice of Open as Commoning
“The most important role of a university is to prepare citizens. We have a responsibility to govern in this democracy.” — Robin DeRosa (@actualham) October 19, 2017 When I saw …
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