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

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

Sherry Turkle famouslyargues [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0] technology has begun to overtake our attention and time, which has led to increased

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.

A MOOC is not a thing. A MOOC is a strategy. What we say about MOOCs cannot possibly contain their drama, banality, incessance, and proliferation. The MOOC is a variant beast — placental, emergent,

I was roused from my teaching this week by the cacophony of tweets and blog posts on the merits and pitfalls of tweeting another scholar’s ideas (the most cited ones authored or

Have you ever overheard this conversation, or something similar, in the departmental copy room? One teacher says, “How many pages of a book can I copy and still call it fair use? Another

How different would our education system be if we focused on learning for learning’s sake, rather than for the sake of tests, exams, and homework checks — if performance really mattered?

MOOCs: Changing Modes of Pedagogy[original Google Doc [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u1KUIi4l_iyxdkSNPlRiV3C84SYjXxfQbf80-iE2RiU/edit] ] AsBonnie Stewart [http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/08/10/if-foucault-ran-a-mooc/]explains, massive open courses are not

Teaching is a moral act. Our choice of course content is a moral decision, but so is the relationship we cultivate with students. Both physical and digital learning spaces require us to practice

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