Read on Every Learner Everywhere Website In an earlier article on the Every Learner website, I argued that college and university faculty have a responsibility to support student development in the context of digital environments. Those environments may be familiar and commonplace, like social media platforms and a learning management system, or emerging, like AI-enabled…
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…
[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…
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…
