A 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 …
Read MoreReclaiming Disruption
One 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 …
Read MoreMore Questions Than Answers (about Open Ped)
Now that the Keene State spring 2017 semester Open Education speaker series and Open Pedagogy Learning Community have come to an end, I wanted to write a wrap-up post. I …
Read MoreStudent Drivers
Our spring break is just around the corner, and as we reach the middle of the semester I am thinking about how things have been going so far with our …
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