It’s time to confront our bias against open sources and redefine how our
students research in digital environments. We should both allow them to use the
research sites that are most handy,
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.
MOOCs are a red herring. The MOOC didn’t appear last week, out of a void,
vacuum-packed. The MOOC hasbeen around for years [http://mooc.ca/], biding its
time. Still, the recent furor
Pedagogy is inherently collaborative. Our work as teachers doesn’t (or
shouldn’t) happen in a vacuum. In “Hybridity, pt. 3: What Does Hybrid Pedagogy
Do?
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/What_
I live and work in one of America’s poorest regions, Appalachia — specifically
eastern Kentucky. Businesses and municipalities don’t have a strong web presence
(if any at all), Google Maps is essentially
The act of writing is organic and generative. Ironically, this biological
approach to writing is strengthened by digital environments that allow students
and teachers to cultivate better compositions. Composing is a demonstration of
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
This is the third in aseries [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/hybridity]of
articles that investigates hybridity as it relates to our positions as teachers
and scholars, but also as learners, composers, and
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
The rise of stuff likehybrid pedagogy
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/Hybridity_2.html], open source
content, and massive open online courses (MOOCs
[http://ric.libguides.com/content.php?pid=151305&
This sentence — this one right here — is the first sentence I’ve written in two
months that wasn’t co-authored in a Google Doc. It’s the first sentence, outside
of e-mails and
Audience has been a critical concern during our first five months at work on
Hybrid Pedagogy. We realize the need to consciously expand our audience — to
consider institutions and colleagues outside of the
Learning Management Systems (LMS) are walled gardens. They provide substantial
control over the environment in which learning activities take place, and at
first glance this appears to be a good thing. For this
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
