[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 to them as ‘puffy clouds’, ‘rain clouds’, ‘snow clouds’, ‘hazy clouds’. If I was some master of knowledge or learning like the school system tells…
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 that have the most potency. For a variety of reasons, we faculty tend to be reticent to let go of some of the control that…
“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 this tweet from Robin DeRosa quoting President Freeman Hrabowski of UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) it inspired me to write an #OpenEd17 reflection which…
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 blame twitter for this). Just after returning from Domains17, I started reading tweets from the New Media Consortium 2017 conference (which I didn’t attend), then…
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 know I can’t capture everything that I have been thinking for a whole semester in this blog post, but I will try to hit some…
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 efforts to bring awareness to the value of Open Education at Keene State College. Jenny Darrow (@gobman) and I have spent many hours this semester…
