Jesse Stommel is Executive Director of Hybrid Pedagogy and faculty at the University of Denver. His research and teaching focus on higher education pedagogy, critical digital pedagogy, and assessment.
Ungrading means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply not grading. The word, "ungrading," is a present participle, an ongoing process, not a static set of practices.
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.
We’ve spent the last several weeks rebuilding the journal on a new platform, looking carefully through our archives, to curate and foreground the most relevant articles we’ve published.
The work of teaching is hard. And much of the work is unexamined, exactly because the work is so precarious—because many teachers are not given the space or the support they need to improvise and experiment in their classes.
Education is, says Freire, an “inescapable concern.” No one can be left out of the work of critical digital pedagogy, both the effort of it and its ends.
Some platforms are not agnostic. Not all tools can be hacked to good use. Critical Digital Pedagogy demands we approach our tools and technologies always with one eyebrow raised.
“The tenacity of / writing’s thickness, like the body’s / flesh, is /
ineradicable, yet mortal” (87).
~ Charles Bernstein, “Artifice of Absorption”
Critical analysis is visceral. When I write it, the tips of my
A few years ago, Sean Michael Morris and I wrote, “Meaningful relationships are
as important in a class of three as they are in a class of 10,000.” In the rest
of
Digital pedagogy is not equivalent to teachers using digital tools. Rather, digital pedagogy demands that we think critically about our tools, demands that we reflect actively upon our own practice.
“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from
the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from their
encounter in relation to an object
