For those who follow the MOOC debate, every day is Armageddon:The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Professors-Corporate-University-Humanities/dp/0823228606] , “The Year of

While the interview was conducted with Dr. James Schirmer, James Schirmer is not how I think of him or his work. My introduction to Schirmer’s work and presence was through his presentation

Scholarship is, by its nature, open source. Let me explain. The open-source (or “free” or “libre”) software movement centers around a single ideal: community ownership of software. Open-source software may or may not

Higher education needs more bravery. Digital pedagogy, or any experimental critical pedagogy, is necessarily dangerous, often with real risks for both instructors and students, much of which can be valuable for learning. But

Negotiated hybridity — of the physical and digital, of the professional and social, of the individual and communal — is our natural state. Only since we launchedHybrid Pedagogy [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/](at last year’

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

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

Publishing and teaching can both terrify new academics, often to the point of paralysis. Their mutual support for one another is often frustrated by institutional demands. For example, the traditional workload split for

In celebration of Twitter’s 6th birthday this week, we offer an examination of Twitter’s application to pedagogical and scholarly communities. I was very excited when I conceived of the original title

I’ve been following some of the very different, but complementary conversations about hybrid pedagogy emerging fromthis journal [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/] , as well as from thepostdoctoral seminar at Georgia Tech. [http://techstyle.

On my first day as a student-teacher in a public high school (1999), my mentor teacher left me in the room at 8:20 a.m. to take a call in the front

In this [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist] article for the Guardian, George Monbiot calls academic publishing “economic parasitism” and academic publishers “monopolists,” which brings up a broader discussion