“What should academics do on Twitter?”
At a recent roundtable workshop on developing a professional academic digital
identity, I heard the first four speakers address that question which I have
heard so many
Every day, students across the country open the doors to their classrooms and
see a stranger standing where their regular teacher should be. “Are you our
sub?” they demand in a less than
In recent years the long hidden problem of the adjunct faculty has become widely
recognized, as in a series of articles in Hybrid Pedagogy published in 2013 and
a current CFP there, The
This is an open, ongoing call. You can read the articles already written in
response [https://hybridpedagogy.org/tag/graduate-teachers-cfp/], or consider contributing
your own [https://hybridpedagogy.org/write/].
The May 2016 #digped
Endings are difficult and painful: The lava of new beginnings flows under the
hard, hollow shell of habit, threatening to burst out and create new forms. The
era of the public intellectual is
The late labor historian David Montgomery wrote famously about workers’ control
in America
[http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/american-history-general-interest/workers-control-america-studies-history-work-technology-and-labor-struggles]
during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. “At times the story
I appreciate the agility available to the digital academic, but there is
something a bit fun-house about all of this to me. Every day as part of my work
as a college English
Introduction
Today scholars walk a difficult line when choosing how much time to spend
gaining traction within their institutions or growing a reputation online. In
many cases these approaches can build on one
The serpentine struggle to make a living wage as an adjunct in academe is far
from over, and higher education is losing world-class instructors
[https://jfruscione.wordpress.com/] and original contributions to research
Academic librarians are worried about power. And powerlessness. They are
particularly concerned with the way power dynamics shape their identities as
educators and inform their pedagogical capacity.
Recent library scholarship has introduced a
We are two critical pedagogues who are also faculty developers, trying to create
space for conversations interrogating dominant approaches to faculty
development.
Faculty developers support the growth and continuing development and evolution
of
We have an immense amount of power, if we reach out and harness it. This is not
just some new age abstraction. To be specific: anyone can create a website, a
video, a
“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in
England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it
would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
Common systems that check finished work for signs of plagiarism turn it into a punitive situation, rather than a teaching opportunity. What if we looked at citation as a compassionate authorial act? Could we situate quoting and referencing as an act of academic kindness?
