I’ve been saying since we began thinking about having an Open Education ‘Initiative’ on our campus- that it has to rise up from the people. (Those who have known me as an activist for at least three decades wouldn’t be surprised by this.) For our institution of ‘higher learning’, that means we the faculty and…
Keene State College begins its Open Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community (OPLC) this Spring 2017 semester. I am very grateful for the generous support of the Keene State College Faculty Enrichment, Faculty Fellow program, and excited to facilitate this learning community together with KSC Instructional Consultant, Chris Odato. From the time that I first began learning…
I wrote this in response to Institutionalized by Mike Caulfield and following the Jim Groom and Mike C. conversation. And frankly just trying to keep up as others are also posting about this! See Stephen Downes‘ piece and Maha Bali’s, The Sustainability of Open. This is not a new debate. And may be one of…
My 2016 summer session biology course, Evolution and Human Behavior, finished up a few weeks ago. I had asked my students to write a final blog post reflecting on their experiences in the course and figured it is about time that I do the same. As I began to think about the summer course itself,…
