The Failure of an Online Program
Digital Pedagogy
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’
Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It
Online Learning
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
A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education
Contingency
Higher education needs more bravery. Digital pedagogy, or any experimental critical pedagogy, is necessarily dangerous, often with real risks for both instructors and students, much of which can be valuable for learning. But
Will MOOCs Work for Writing?
Composition
When faced with a complex, fluid, and potentially uncontrollable situation, I’ve often heard people say, “It’s like herding cats.” I can think of no more complex, variable, and fluid task than
Vlogging Composition: Making Content Dynamic
Composition
With technological innovations come opportunities for students to compose, communicate, share, collaborate, and express themselves in contemporary ways as well as opportunities for teachers to harness potential academic possibilities. Vlogging, or video blogging,
It’s Time to Play: Games, Gamification, and Active Learning
Critical Pedagogy
Play is making a comeback. There have beenTED Talks [http://www.ted.com/search?cat=ss_all&q=Play], peer-reviewed articles in pediatrics journals [http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/119/1/182.
Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 1: Beyond the LMS
Digital Literacy
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
Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
Digital Humanities
Digital pedagogy is not a dancing monkey. It won’t do tricks on command. It won’t come obediently when called. Nobody can show us how to do it or make it happen
Of Icebergs and Ownership: A Common-Sense Approach to Intellectual Property
Copyright
Recently, my colleague and Hybrid Pedagogy co-conspirator, Pete Rorabaugh, and I spoke at theEmory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing [http://ewprogram.com/symposium/]. Over the course of two days of
Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 3: Developing Editors and Designers
Digital Literacy
This is the third installment ina three-part series [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/editorial-pedagogy-series]on Editorial Pedagogy, a critical and three-dimensional approach to teaching, editing, and service. Thefirst installment [http://hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
Online Learning
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
Learn Like an Arachnid: Why I’m MOOCifying
Composition
Every fall when I ask my first year students, “Why did you choose theCollege of Environmental Science and Forestry [http://www.esf.edu/]?” at least one will answer, “I want to save the
A User’s Guide to Forking Education
Higher Ed
At exactly this moment, online education is poised (and threatening) to replicate the conditions, courses, structures, and hierarchical relations of brick-and-mortar industrial-era education. Cathy N. Davidson argued exactly this at her presentation, “Access
The Hybrid Scholar
Digital Humanities
Negotiated hybridity — of the physical and digital, of the professional and social, of the individual and communal — is our natural state. Only since we launchedHybrid Pedagogy [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/](at last year’