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... The post How to Build...
View Article#digped Storify: Adjunctification and Zero-opportunity Employment
On Friday, October 4, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a #digped chat to discuss the appropriate pedagogical responses to the increasing crisis of contingent labor in education. In particular, we wanted to...
View ArticleCFP: The Problem of Contingency in Higher Education
Read the collection of articles published from this CFP. The case of Margaret Mary Vojtko made much more public a conversation that’s been heating up in academe. Vojtko, an adjunct professor at... The...
View ArticleBeyond Rigor
Intellectually rigorous work lives, thrives, and teems proudly outside conventional notions of academic rigor. Although institutions of higher education only recognize rigor when it mimics mastery of...
View ArticleGrading the Grade: a #digped Discussion
On Friday, December 6 from 12:00 – 1:00pm Eastern (9:00 – 10:00am Pacific), Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a Twitter discussion under the hashtag #digped to discuss the process, practice, and theories of...
View ArticlePromoting Open Access Publications and Academic Projects
Does our academic work exist if nobody sees it? I watch far too many colleagues spend countless hours building, teaching, researching, and writing with little to show for it. Or,... The post Promoting...
View ArticleHybrid Pedagogy’s 2013 List of Lists
This article closes out a series that reflects at a meta-level about the work of the journal itself. Here, we offer a Hybrid Pedagogy mix-tape with a few special guests. It is the season... The post...
View ArticleCFP: Pedagogical Alterity: Stories of Race, Gender, Disability, Sexuality
Read the collection of articles published from this CFP. Paulo Freire claims in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, that “the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed [is] to liberate... The post...
View ArticleMOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly
“Too many people are drinking the MOOC Kool-aid (or dumping it out hastily) when what we need to do is look closely at the Kool-aid to see what we can... The post MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly appeared...
View ArticleMMDU: Bleeding Horses, Breaking Habits, Overthrowing the Course
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly from Cathy Davidson’s distributed...
View ArticleMMDU: “I Would Prefer Not To.”
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) was a rambunctious series of discussions in early 2014 about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly from Cathy...
View ArticleMMDU: The Missing Manual
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly from Cathy N. Davidson’s...
View ArticleToward an Interactive Criticism: House of Leaves as Haptic Interface
“And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!” ~ Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are When I first read Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, I barely got through... The post Toward an...
View ArticleThe Pedagogies of Reading and Not Reading
“There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all.” ~ Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books... The post The Pedagogies of Reading and Not Reading appeared...
View ArticleHybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Academic Publishing
“‘Digital scholarship’ is its own animal, a chimera that defies the conventions of print scholarship.” ~ Roopika Risam, “Rethinking Peer Review in the Age of Digital Humanities” It is not... The post...
View ArticlePermission, Openness, and Net Neutrality: a #digped Discussion
Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? As the Federal Communications Commission threatens to change... The post...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Will Not Go Quietly
On May 2, 2012, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a discussion about Net Neutrality, considering the broader implications for educators and learners. You can read the original announcement here and we’ve...
View ArticleCFP: Critical Digital Pedagogy
“Digital pedagogy is becoming, for me, coterminous with critical pedagogy, given the degree to which the digital can function both as a tool for and an obstacle to liberation.” ~... The post CFP:...
View ArticleIs It Okay to Be a Luddite?
This piece was originally published on Instructure’s Keep Learning blog. When it posted, we received a message from Howard Rheingold (NetSmart) linking us to a post last revised in May... The post Is...
View ArticleDissertations, Theses, and Other Pedagogical Monstrosities: a #digped Discussion
The dissertation is a curious beast. It has eyeballed me for years. Even now, having tucked it safely in a drawer since 2010, I still catch it looking at me.... The post Dissertations, Theses, and...
View ArticleTrust, Agency, and Connected Learning
This interview with Jesse was published on HASTAC as part of the Digital Media and Learning Competition 5 Trust Challenge. We are republishing a revised version here on Hybrid Pedagogy’s... The post...
View ArticleCritical Digital Pedagogy: a Definition
On November 21 at the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel will present on critical digital pedagogy and MOOCs. This is the first of three... The post Critical...
View ArticleIf Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance
On November 21 at the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel will present on critical digital pedagogy and MOOCs. This is the second of three articles that inspired...
View ArticleHybrid Pedagogy 2014 List of Lists
Hybrid Pedagogy will go dark from December 10, 2014, through early January 2015. Many of our readers and authors take this time to prepare for the new semester and/or spend... The post Hybrid Pedagogy...
View ArticleMOOC MOOC: Critical Pedagogy
“To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers that may or may not... The post MOOC MOOC: Critical...
View ArticleDigital Pedagogy Lab: a 5-day Institute
On May 4, 2012, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted its first hashtag chat using #digped (digital pedagogy). The chat revolved around a discussion of the first chapter of Howard Rheingold’s Net Smart:... The post...
View ArticleMMCP: Radical Pedagogies; Pedagogies of Care
MOOC MOOC: Critical Pedagogy (MMCP) is a six-week exploration of critical pedagogy. For this second week, focused on feminist perspectives, we’ll be discussing Chapter 1 of bell hooks’ Teaching to......
View ArticleCFP: The Scholarly & the Digital
“What is new and which affects the idea of the work comes not necessarily from the internal recasting of each of these disciplines, but rather from their encounter in relation... The post CFP: The...
View ArticleMMCP: Critical Digital Pedagogy; or, the Magic of Gears
MOOC MOOC: Critical Pedagogy (MMCP) is a six-week exploration of critical pedagogy. During our final week, we’ll be discussing Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms, and Paulo Blikstein’s “Travels in Troy with...
View ArticleDigital Pedagogy Lab: Hybrid Pedagogy as a School
“It is possible to think critically about technology without running off to the woods — although, I must warn you, it is possible that you will never be quite so... The post Digital Pedagogy Lab:...
View ArticleTwitter and the Locus of Research
Hybrid Pedagogy recently announced a CFP focused on The Scholarly & the Digital. This piece is a response to that call and an invitation. While we have begun to review submissions,... The post...
View ArticleLearning is Not a Mechanism
This article was originally published on Educating Modern Learners on January 26, 2015. “The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility.” ~ bell hooks, Teaching to...
View ArticleThe Course Hath No Bottom: the 20,000-Person Seminar
A few years ago, Sean Michael Morris and I wrote, “Meaningful relationships are as important in a class of three as they are in a class of 10,000.” In the... The post The Course Hath No Bottom: the...
View ArticlePlay in Education
Why isn’t school more fun? Fred Rogers, famous in America for creating Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning.... The post Play in...
View ArticleProfessional Development in Digital Pedagogy
This July we are launching Digital Pedagogy Lab Courses, a series of professional development opportunities for educators, librarians, technologists, and instructional designers. Our project has had...
View ArticleOne Big Question: a #digped Discussion
When one is overwhelmed, as everyone must be from time to time, by a sense that School is too firmly implanted ever to change, it is helpful to contemplate the... The post One Big Question: a #digped...
View ArticleDigital Pedagogy Lab: Key Moments
“It’s time to embrace our very human inefficiencies.” Audrey Watters struck a post-digital note as she wrapped her opening keynote on the first day of the Digital Pedagogy Lab 2015 Institute.... The...
View ArticleLaptop Policies: a #digped Discussion
“The proliferation of the digital may feel like an invasion at times (and at times, it is), and so it is in our ability to choose — to decide, decipher,... The post Laptop Policies: a #digped...
View ArticleDigital Pedagogy Lab Courses: Teaching with Twitter
Pedagogy is not reducible to 140 characters. Pedagogy is, in fact, not reducible. However, it can (and does) happen in spaces as small as 140 characters. Pedagogy looks to the... The post Digital...
View ArticleDigital Pedagogy Lab Courses: Learning Online
As I’ve said before, pedagogy is praxis, at the intersection of the philosophy and practice of teaching. Digital pedagogy turns that thinking toward digital platforms and communities. It does not......
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