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Hybrid Pedagogy Books

Quality Theater

A deeply common and deeply problematic area of instructional design is the unquestioned adoption and propagation of online course quality rubrics.

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Hybrid Pedagogy Books

Click, Click, Connect

The following vignettes are based on events that occurred during the 2020-2021 academic year, a pandemic year that called me and so many others to “pivot” to teaching and learning completely online.

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Hybrid Pedagogy Books

An Introduction to Designing for Care and Toward a Critical Instructional Design

For many of us, the Covid crisis brought into focus that assumptions underpinning our instructional design, and our ID practices themselves, were failing our teachers, students, and institutions.

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Hybrid Pedagogy Books

A Foreword to Toward a Critical Instructional Design

As we design our courses, we are participating in a larger project to design the future of higher education.

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Hybrid Pedagogy Books

A Foreword to Designing for Care

By prioritizing care and community in our teaching and instructional design, we give ourselves and our students the opportunity to remake this uncertain world.

Light-blue paint cracks and peels, exposing the wood beneath. Who obscured the view in the first place?

Cultivating Student Resilience to Resist Institutional Replication

In the wake of the pandemic, resilience has become the word of the day on most college campuses. How well do we really understand what it means?

Looking up through a canyon carved long ago, we can see…hope?

Students Voices CFP

Las Ganas for Change

I never got the chance to break down my high school experience in a way that was analytical and “academic. Entonces, even though this letter is addressed to y’all, this is an opportunity for me to articulate thoughts I had lingering en mi mente with concepts that I’ve learned aquí.

A door helpfully suggests that a push will do the trick. But we probably won't notice that until after we try to pull.

Teacher of the Ear

Feedback

Laura Gibbs says feedback—giving advice and support—emphasizes learning. Hear about separating feedback from assessment, ungrading, and more.

Unbroken

I wish someone had told me–verified for me, validated for me–that everything would be okay. Just the vote of confidence, a light of hope, would have been enough for me to see the path ahead.

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Teacher of the Ear

Love

Martha Burtis discusses the benefits of loving students in the classroom. Hear how pedagogies of care affect classroom labor.

Designing for Fatigue

Designing for Fatigue

If we can imagine a post-pandemic campus that nurtures rather than fatigues, we can begin to make such campuses our future.

Teacher of the Ear

Optimism

While teaching through years of a global pandemic, Jessica Zeller says hopeful optimism can keep us centered on what we value: engaging with students.

Teacher of the Ear

Self-Care

Kaitlin Clinnin and sarah madoka currie acknowledge that we’re all worn out, then explore ways to contextualize the problem and show ourselves some grace.

Public Scholarship

Teacher of the Ear

Public Scholarship

Dr. Mia Zamora blurs the lines between school and community, class and real-world, expertise and experience.

Teacher of the Ear

Care

During the pandemic, the work of teaching has earned greater attention and importance. What might care work look like from a global pedagogical perspective?

Scholarly Communication

Teacher of the Ear

Scholarly Communication

What could scholarly communication look like if we understand the system and strategically apply pressure in an effort to break that system?

When Returning to Campus, I Realized I Miss Virtual Courses

Virtual Courses

When Returning to Campus, I Realized I Miss Virtual Courses

Despite the majority of mainstream society's expectation for being back to normal, which may refer to taking in-person classes, I want to argue for the minority preference for preserving an option outside the scope of “normalcy.”

Building Classroom Community, Even When We’re All Alone

Building Classroom Community, Even When We’re All Alone

I soon realized that visual presence did not determine student participation. ...Rather than hiding behind turned off cameras, there seemed to be a kind of courage that came about in speaking while not being gazed at.

You're Not Alone: Finding Connection in the Classroom and Outside It

CFP: Student Voices

You're Not Alone: Finding Connection in the Classroom and Outside It

I felt disconnected at school, and I desperately wanted to change that.

CFP: Student Voices

CFP: Student Voices

CFP: Student Voices

We want to hear from you, students, whether you are in your last semester of a post-doctoral degree or if you just graduated high school and are on your way to a new college. All students have a voice here.

The Cult of Quality Matters

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The Cult of Quality Matters

Quality Matters, with its 42-point rubric, is one of the most pervasive and insidious examples of a standardized approach to the development of online courses.

Building a Writing Class from the Ground Up

Building a Writing Class from the Ground Up

I’ve stopped worrying about managing the classroom the way I used to. I’ve stopped telling students what to write about. I’ve realized that the more ideas there are in the writing classroom the better.

A Pedagogy of Self-Care for a Post-Pandemic Fall

A Pedagogy of Self-Care for a Post-Pandemic Fall

"To be able to mentor students effectively, we first need self-care in the wake of this global health crisis. Self-care, under these circumstances, is nothing short of an act of defiance in the face of exploitation."

Ray, Jeremy, and other reverberations:

Ray, Jeremy, and other reverberations:

Not all of my stories are as utilitarian to my teaching as the stories I’ve shared above. But all of my stories—all of our stories—have the potential to be enduring. Stories are sustenance: they are in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the communities we live, work, and love.

Reframing the Revolution

Reframing the Revolution

When I started teaching I liked to think that I was participating in the education of a new generation which would reinforce the foundations of democracy; today I feel more like a job trainer.