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Digital Humanities

The Digital Humanities is About Breaking Stuff

Many have argued that the digital humanities is aboutbuilding stuff [http://stephenramsay.us/text/2011/01/08/whos-in-and-whos-out/]andsharing stuff [http://www.samplereality.com/2011/05/25/the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/] — that the digital humanities reframes

by Jesse Stommel

5 min read

Engagement

Engaging Students: Lessons from the Leisure Industry

While on a cross-country trip a few years ago, I stopped at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and had a revelation. It was a few days before the nearby Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was

by Mary Bucy

8 min read

MOOC

Meaningful Collaboration: Revitalizing Small Colleges with MOOC Hybrids

When MOOCs went viral in 2012, traditional small colleges reached an identity crossroads, a midlife crisis where idealism and wisdom collide. Although the main concerns of future viability have been present for years

by Kevin R. Burke

6 min read

Critical Pedagogy

Social Action and the Status Quo: Bravery in First Year Composition

Lee Skallerup Bessette and Jesse Stommel [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Contingency_and_Higher_Education.html#sthash.sHQKzfrw.dpuf] note the real need for bravery in higher education, paying special attention to

by Susan Gail Taylor

13 min read

MOOC

A Plea for Pedagogy

It goes without saying that technology is changing education. Children’s brains are being rewired, universities are being threatened with extinction, and we will be in serious trouble if we ignore the transformative

by Matthew J. Kruger-Ross

8 min read

K-12

MOOCifying K-12: Relationships, Collaboration, Risk-Taking

Just over a year ago, my “learning” exploded. I was developing a hybrid Canadian online delivery program for Chinese high school students. I was encouraged to push the boundaries of K-12 online and

by Verena Roberts

7 min read

Community

Hashtag Classroom

Hashtags are taxonomic and pedagogical tools (with citation standards to boot [http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/8/2853518/modern-language-association-standard-format-citing-tweets] ).The Twitter hashtag was born in 2007 [http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/

by Charlotte Frost

5 min read

editors’ picks

In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: a Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice

This article is an attempt to address a possible gap in Connectivist thinking, and its expression in cMOOCs. It’s to do with the experience of technology novices, and unconfident learners in cMOOC

by Keith Brennan

12 min read

MOOC

MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and the Meta-MOOC

“Building community doesn’t mean that learning happens.” ~ from an audience comment at InstructureCon 2013 Learning in a MOOC Instruction does not equate to learning. This is the fundamental fly in the ointment

by Jesse Stommel

9 min read

Graduate Education

Help Wanted: Supporting Graduate Student Writers

On my first day of work, my supervisor and the assistant director walked me over to what would be my office for the next two years: it was a hidden office, an office

by Liana M. Silva-Ford

5 min read

Critical Pedagogy

Learning from Early Childhood Education: Higher Ed and the Process of Becoming

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.On my luckier days, I am gifted a few invisible moments at pick-up time before my son or one of his

by Marisol Brito

9 min read

MOOC

Straining the Quality of MOOCs: Student Retention and Intention

“Learners are classified based on their patterns of interaction with video lectures and assessments, the primary features of most MOOCs to date.”—Rene F. Kizilcec, et al. [http://www.stanford.edu/~cpiech/bio/

by Peter Wallis

10 min read

Higher Ed

The Rise of MOOCs and The Myth of Mass Exodus in Traditional Higher Ed

For those who follow the MOOC debate, every day is Armageddon:The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Professors-Corporate-University-Humanities/dp/0823228606] , “The Year of

by Tiffany Kirwan

8 min read

Collaboration

Edu-Punk Video Killed the LMS Star: In Absentia Video Presentations

While the interview was conducted with Dr. James Schirmer, James Schirmer is not how I think of him or his work. My introduction to Schirmer’s work and presence was through his presentation

by Gregory Zobel

7 min read