There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera. Forums

It’s evening. An Irish pub in Louisville, Colorado. Fish and chips. Beer. A game of soccer on the TV. I’m sitting down with one of my faculty to revisit the department’

This is the first ofa four-part colloquy of articles [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/online-learning-colloquy]. Each piece has been contributed by authors who have intimate experience with the struggles, failures, and successes of

We are not ready to teach online. In a recent conversation with a friend, I found myself puzzled, and a bit troubled, when he expressed confusion about digital pedagogy. He said something to

On December 14, 2012, a group of 12 assembled in Palo Alto for a raucous discussion of online education.Hybrid PedagogycontributorsSean Michael Morrisand Jesse Stommelgathered together with folks from a diverse array of

A MOOC is not a thing. A MOOC is a strategy. What we say about MOOCs cannot possibly contain their drama, banality, incessance, and proliferation. The MOOC is a variant beast — placental, emergent,

“The intellectual is still only an incompletely transformed writer.” ~ Roland Barthes,Writing Degree Zero There could be many epigraphs hailing a discussion of digital writing, many pithy observations about its nature, becoming, qualities,

This sentence is a learning object. Wayne Hodgins, the “father of learning objects,” first came up with the idea for them while watching his son play with LEGOs. The basic notion is that

Coursera [http://www.coursera.org/]is silly. Educational technology news has been all a-flutter over the last few months about the work that Coursera is doing to bring higher education into the open.

There’s nothing wrong with Blackboard, except in the way that there’s something wrong with all of it. AtInstructureCon 2012 [http://www.instructure.com/instructurecon], we noticed a lot of hate being

In preparing for theTeaching Naked #digped Twitter discussion [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Teaching_Naked.html]on Friday, June 8, I reviewed what felt like a massive number of possible topics, discussable

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from“The American Scholar” [http://emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm]: > The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so

Revealing the strange and wondrous power of digital publishing, the following unsolicited piece was written in response to anarticle [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Pedagogy_of_Manipulation.html] published earlier today, submitted