Professor of Biology, Keene State College
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 MoreI 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 MoreUn-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 MorePressbooks 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 MoreThe 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 MoreDespair 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 More[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 MoreAgency 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 More“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 …
Read MoreOne of the problems with being a slow writer, is that as you are in the middle of putting something together, you keep reading and wanting to add more. (I …
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