Gaining Insights into Online Teacher Training through Essential Questions
Online Learning
My favorite pedagogical tool is theessential question [http://www.authenticeducation.org/ae_bigideas/article.lasso?artid=53]. Briefly, these attempt to focus student attention on the broader implications and deeper meanings behind content.
Not a Scarlet Letter: Talking with Students about Being an Adjunct
Academic Labor
If you’re an adjunct, I have a small but important task for you: Ask your students what “adjunct professor” means to them. You might hear something like,It means you don’t
A Lecturer's Almanac
Academic Labor
MARCH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The hall of the department is a 1960s-era Bunker, molded of concrete and rebar, with tall, narrow windows to repel even the most determined activist. I watch my feet as I
Tales of a MOOC Dropout
MOOC
In September 2013,Hybrid Pedagogypublished an e-book of graduate student essays focused on student experiences in MOOCs — from EdX, Udacity, and other xMOOCs, to improvisational MOOCs created by the students themselves using open
Listening for Student Voices
Critical Pedagogy
Teachers don’t teach; instructors don’t really instruct. The lecture-based course fell out of favor years ago, and we know today to bringfront and center [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Pedagogies_
Beyond Rigor
editors’ picks
Intellectually rigorous work lives, thrives, and teems proudly outside conventional notions of academic rigor. Although institutions of higher education only recognize rigor when it mimics mastery of content, when it creates a hierarchy
CFP: The Problem of Contingency in Higher Education
Academic Labor
Read the collection of articles published from this CFP. [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/contingency-cfp/] The case ofMargaret Mary Vojtko [http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/death-of-an-adjunct-703773/] made much more public a
A Pedagogy for Cross-cultural Digital Learning Environments
What is Digital Pedagogy?
Education can benefit from the global network of connections we call the Internet, since the issue of access is less of a concern in thedigital space [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Hybridity_
How to Build an Ethical Online Course
Digital Pedagogy
The best online and hybrid courses are made from scraps strewn about and gathered together from across the web. We build a course by examining the bits, considering how they’re connected, and
All I Needed to Know about College Teaching I Learned as a High School Teacher
K-12 CFP
When people hear that I was once a high school English teacher and am now a college professor, they often ask, “How is college teaching different?” They expect I’ll say something about
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How Do Learners Experience Open Online Learning?
Learners
During the summer of 2013, George Veletsianos approached the editors of Hybrid Pedagogy about publishing a collection of graduate student essays. The collection focused on these students’ experiences in a variety of MOOCs
The Higher Education and K-12 Conversation
Collaboration
When we think about K-12 and higher education, educators think of them as two separate entities. Within K-12, we divide it further; primary, junior, intermediate, and senior. These artificial silos create barriers to
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Temporalizing Pedagogy and Technology: Pressing into the Future
online pedagogy
InBeing and Time, Martin Heidegger writes with surprising brevity, “Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.” While we may speak and write of a distinct past,
Fight the Dead, Fear the MOOC: Questioning The Walking Dead MOOC
MOOC
On October 14th, theCanvas Network [https://www.canvas.net/courses/the-walking-dead]will launch a new massive open online course inspired by the popular television seriesThe Walking Dead. Instructure [http://www.instructure.com/]has