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August 30, 2017

The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing Students for the World Beyond the Classroom

There needs to be a general reshaping of how college is viewed and how colleges act. There is an epidemic going on right now. Students invest...

Higher Ed, Purpose of Education CFP, students0

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March 8, 2017

Access

https://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/8376/access.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 40:02In this episode (full transcript available), I spoke with Robin DeRosa about a broad issue that affects the way...

Academic Labor, Digital Pedagogy, Higher Ed, Open Education0

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January 25, 2017

Community-Focused Versus Market-Driven Education

Public education is now transitioning from a system of educating citizens to a market for profit. “Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding...

Higher Ed, Hybridity, Purpose of Education CFP3

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September 7, 2016

“College Readiness” versus “Ready for College”

We have lots of definitions of “college readiness”; here are the ACT’s definitions as well as the Common Core’s in Language Arts (as for math, it’s...

Higher Ed, K-12, Learners1

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August 19, 2016

Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed

https://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/7938/making-breaking-rethinking-web-higher-ed.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 27:39On Friday, 12 August 2016, Martha Burtis gave one of two closing keynotes at the Digital Pedagogy Lab...

Digital Pedagogy, Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute, Higher Ed, instructional design1

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July 28, 2016

Learning Through Conversation

“My teaching portfolio speaks of challenges and failures alongside successes, all woven into a narrative organically establishing who I am and why I do what I...

Course Design, Critical Pedagogy, editors’ picks, Higher Ed, Pedagogy, Purpose of Education CFP8

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May 26, 2016

No Holes for Us Round Pegs: Why Adjunct Faculty Don’t Fit In

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...

Academic Labor, Adjuncts, Contingency, Contingency CFP, editors’ picks, Higher Ed2

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May 16, 2016

CFP: Preparing Graduate Teachers

This is an open, ongoing call. You can read the articles already written in response, or consider contributing your own. The May 2016 #digped chat hosted...

Academic Labor, CFP, critical digital pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed, Learners2

April 26, 2016

Risk Taking is a Form of Playing it Safe

We like to talk about risk. We talk about the virtues of taking risks, we tell each other to take risks, we tell each other to...

Composition, editors’ picks, Higher Ed, Pedagogy, Scholarly and Digital CFP2

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January 26, 2016

How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours? Academic Freedom and Control of the Classroom

The late labor historian David Montgomery wrote famously about workers’ control in America during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. “At times the story involved little more...

Academic Labor, editors’ picks, Higher Ed, LMS, Profession5

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December 1, 2015

CFP: The Purpose of Education

Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of most of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system. To the...

CFP, critical digital pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed5

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November 24, 2015

On Beauty and Classroom Teaching

The “crisis in the humanities,” whether unprecedented and dire or perpetual and overblown, plays out as a controversy over how long people like me will have...

Collaboration, editors’ picks, Higher Ed, Pedagogy5

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November 17, 2015

Redefining Service for the Digital Academic: Scholarship, Social Media, and Silos

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...

Academic Labor, Digital culture, editors’ picks, Higher Ed, Profession0

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November 3, 2015

Addressing Ageism in the 21st Century Classroom

“It makes no more sense to wish for age than to fear it.” – Gloria Steinem When I entered my Introduction to Women’s Studies class in...

Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed, Learners0

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October 30, 2015

Collaboration

https://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/5250/hybridpod-episode-7-collaboration.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 31:12A complete transcript of this episode is available. In November, Digital Writing Month returns to give participants...

Collaboration, Digital Pedagogy, Higher Ed, K-122

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August 8, 2015

Digital Pedagogy, Part 1

https://hybridpedagogy.org/podcast-player/4971/digital-pedagogy-part-1.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 31:44A complete transcript of this episode is available. From Monday, August 10, through Friday, August 14, 2015, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted...

#digped, Digital Pedagogy, Higher Ed0

July 7, 2015

Librarian as Outsider

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...

Academic Labor, Critical Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, Higher Ed, Learners, librarians4

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June 23, 2015

Towards a Critical Approach to Faculty Development

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...

Academic Labor, Critical Pedagogy, Faculty Development, Higher Ed4

February 12, 2015

CFP: The Scholarly & the Digital

“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from...

CFP, Higher Ed, Profession, Publishing3

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November 20, 2014

If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance

On November 21 at the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel will present on critical digital pedagogy and MOOCs. This is the second...

critical digital pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Digital Pedagogy, henry Giroux, Higher Ed, MOOC, OpenEd, paulo freire, Peer Review11

November 6, 2014

Designing Critically: Feminist Pedagogy for Digital / Real Life

This article is a response submitted for our series about critical digital pedagogy. See the original CFP for details. I’m a feminist teacher of writing and literature of over...

Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP, Digital culture, Digital Literacy, Digital Pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, Higher Ed, Hybridity, Peer Review6

October 7, 2014

Daring Conversations: Searching for a Shared Language

“Ra-Ra Ah-Ah-Ah, Ga-Ga-Ooh-La-La, I want your bad romance.” — Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” Do I really see myself teaching Lady Gaga next semester? Or should I...

Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed, pop culture, Student 2.07

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September 9, 2014

Critical Pedagogy: Intentions and Realities

This article is a response submitted for our series about critical digital pedagogy. See the original CFP for details. It is one thing to read about critical pedagogy in...

Adult Education, Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP, Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed, Pedagogy6

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July 30, 2014

Critical Resistance and Underground Teaching: a #digped Discussion

This Friday, August 1 from 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern, Hybrid Pedagogy will host a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to consider ways to enact what...

Academic Labor, critical digital pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Higher Ed2

May 1, 2014

The Critical Textbook

Nothing enshrines an idea quite like printing it in a textbook. In fact, the textbook is the ultimate canon: a fixed tome of knowledge, shared across...

Higher Ed, Publishing, Scholarship9

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