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 Open Education. We then invited participants to help co-create the document and to talk about how we might best share and use it. At least…
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 the still version, it’s here:
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 am what some may call an “un-grader”. But the thing is, if you work in an institution where your job is to assign final grades…
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 student came to my office to ask me a question. Haley: “Hey, are you teaching your tropical marine biology class next semester?” Me: “No, it’s…
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 joined forces with faculty and staff at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, BC to form a KPU-KSC virtual Open Pedagogy Learning Community. I am especially…
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 you have no power to control. As a long-time activist for social justice, human rights and environmental issues, I am used to losing and to…
