What is Online Learning?
Online learning is often misunderstood as a set of practices enacted within the confines of a learning management system or other platform. In fact, online learning (and teaching) is as much a matter of critical attention to building relationships, and questioning and creating practice as traditional classroom pedagogy. 11 posts
Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education
Ed-tech
Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education
Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.
Shea Swauger
by Shea Swauger
15 min read
Bit, Block, Sketch, Build: Bricolage and Educator Learning
Critical Digital Pedagogy CFP
Bit, Block, Sketch, Build: Bricolage and Educator Learning
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.
Remi Kalir
by Remi Kalir
11 min read
Ethical Online Learning: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice
Critical Pedagogy
Ethical Online Learning: Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice
On February 16, 2018, Sean Michael Morris and Lora Taub-Pervizpour presented a joint keynote for a Digital Pedagogy Lab event at the University of Delaware. Below is the transcript for that presentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sean Michael Morris
by Sean Michael Morris
17 min read
Not Enough Voices
Digital Pedagogy
Not Enough Voices
On Friday, 12 August 2016, Sean Michael Morris gave one of two closing keynotes at the Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute held at the University of Mary Washington. Below is the text of his
Sean Michael Morris
by Sean Michael Morris
10 min read
An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning
Digital Pedagogy
An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning
There is something that bothers us about conversations about replacing face-to-face teaching with online learning: they often fall into a trap of assuming that incorporating synchronous interaction is the optimal way to make
Maha Bali / مها بالي
by Maha Bali / مها بالي
9 min read
How to Build an Ethical Online Course
Digital Pedagogy
How to Build an Ethical Online Course
The best online and hybrid courses are made from scraps strewn about and gathered together from across the web. We build a course by examining the bits, considering how they’re connected, and
Jesse Stommel
by Jesse Stommel
7 min read
A Plea for Pedagogy
MOOC
A Plea for Pedagogy
It goes without saying that technology is changing education. Children’s brains are being rewired, universities are being threatened with extinction, and we will be in serious trouble if we ignore the transformative
Matthew J. Kruger-Ross
by Matthew J. Kruger-Ross
8 min read
The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum
Tools
The Discussion Forum is Dead; Long Live the Discussion Forum
There are better forums for discussion than online discussion forums. The discussion forum is a ubiquitous component of every learning management system and online learning platform from Blackboard to Moodle to Coursera. Forums
Sean Michael Morris
by Sean Michael Morris
8 min read
The Early Days of Videotaped Lectures
Online Learning
The Early Days of Videotaped Lectures
“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
Audrey Watters
by Audrey Watters
3 min read
Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It
Online Learning
Why Online Programs Fail, and 5 Things We Can Do About It
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
Sean Michael Morris
by Sean Michael Morris
11 min read
Online Learning: a Manifesto
Digital Humanities
Online Learning: a Manifesto
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.
Jesse Stommel
by Jesse Stommel
6 min read
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