“It’s early days for online education,” declared a recent article in the technology blogTechcrunch [http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/72-of-professors-who-teach-online-courses-dont-think-their-students-deserve-credit/] , with its typical giddiness about the changes that technology is poised

Here’s a little secret: when I started teaching people how to teach online, I had no clue what I was doing. It was 1998. I was a graduate student, without extensive computer

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’

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

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

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

Online learning is not the whipping boy of higher education. As a classroom teacher first and foremost, I have no interest in proselytizing for online learning, but to roundly condemn it is absurd.

This sentence is a learning object. Wayne Hodgins, the “father of learning objects,” first came up with the idea for them while watching his son play with LEGOs. The basic notion is that

This is the third in aseries of articles [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/curriculum-crowdsourcing]that works to get feedback on the program I’m directing and helping to develop at Marylhurst University in

This is the second in aseries of articles [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/curriculum-crowdsourcing]that works to get feedback on the program I’m directing and helping to develop at Marylhurst University in

This is the first in aseries of articles [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/tag/curriculum-crowdsourcing]. Clickhere [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/crowdsourcing_a_curriculum_2.html] for part two on design principles. Clickhere

Early web commenters referred to the Internet as a primitive, lawless place like the “Wild West.” Plenty still needs to change to make certain parts of the web more civil and useful, but

All participation is not equal. Digital media prompt us for comments, but in an academic setting we should harness this cultural habit to teach the difference between expressing opinion and authentic engagement. Professors