Reviewer: Sean Michael Morris
10 posts
CFP: Student Voices
CFP: Student Voices
We want to hear from you, students, whether you are in your last semester of a post-doctoral degree or if you just graduated high school and are on your way to a new college. All students have a voice here.
The Cult of Quality Matters
instructional design
Quality Matters, with its 42-point rubric, is one of the most pervasive and insidious examples of a standardized approach to the development of online courses.
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Counter-friction to Stop the Machine: The Endgame for Instructional Design
instructional design
"Institutional structures are not designed to cultivate (and sometimes undermine) pedagogical expertise in both instructional designers and faculty."
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Tiny Maneuvers: On Changing Our Instincts as Teachers
praxis
How many of us closely read our own syllabi, not for typos but for pedagogy? How many of us think about the subtle and overt messages they send to our students?
Bit, Block, Sketch, Build: Bricolage and Educator Learning
Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP
Every course, every semester, and every workshop is a mutable foundation upon which to build for empathy rather than efficiency, to architect relations of curiosity and variance rather than similarity and control.
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On Social Media, Silence, and Things That Matter
This piece first appeared on Educating Modern Learners [http://modernlearners.com/on-social-media-silence-and-things-that-matter/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to talk about Ferguson [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-ferguson-tragedy-becoming-a-farce/2014/09/12/e52226ca-3a82-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html] . We need
Learning to Let Go: Listening to Students in Discussion
Discussions
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook.A class discussion where the teacher pre-determines the outcome is just a lecture in disguise, dressed up to feel student-centered while
A Soliloquy on Contingency
Academic Labor
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I don’t share the sheer outrage that some adjunct professors are directing at the tenured ranks.
The Political Power of Play
Digital Humanities
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].This peer-reviewed article was simultaneously prepared as a keynote address for Re:Humanities 2014 [http://blogs.haverford.
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Confessions of a Subversive Student
Open Education
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the complete serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].My relationship with education has always been a kind of dissonant harmony. I have always loved learning,
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