In the summer of 2018, I completed a two-week doctoral residency. While there, I had agreed to focus my doctoral work on an idea that I had begun the previous summer entitled “a pedagogy of small.” It was not the topic that I had intended to pursue when I had left for school, and on […]
OE Global Workshop: Possible Benefits of Small Approaches to Open Education
Hi folks, I think I should start out be saying that this is an experiment. I love asynchronous collaboration, so when the option was offered at OE Global, I jumped at it. As I now work on setting it up, all sorts of doubts are creeping in. So if you’ve made it this far, thank […]
I don’t understand. And that needs to be OK
Note: I’ve been working through my thoughts around understanding, empathy and love. I’m sharing as a way to work to practice talking about love without understanding, but it remains very uncomfortable. _______________________________________________ As I stared at the blank screen trying to write, I heard the words of the song playing on ds106radio, “It’s better for […]
Reconsidering the implications of scale within open education
My doctoral work centers around the implications of scale within the field of open education. Edwards (2015) suggested that “the task for educational researchers becomes one of engaging in a struggle over the specific approaches to open-closed-ness rather than pursuing openness per se as a worthwhile educational goal” (p. 255). Why then should we not […]
Maybe “the” world hasn’t changed?
I’ve been thinking about writing something for a while, but instead I’ve been quiet. As the pandemic has taken hold, I suddenly read that we are all struggling to balance family and work, to deal with job losses and pay cuts and studying at a distance. I have read about the need to care for […]
What *might* be wrong with large-scale approaches to open education?: A lit review of scale in open education
When it comes to scale, bigger is generally accepted as better. We are encouraged to “think big” and warned against being “small minded.” In business, politics and online social networks growth in stock prices, political and economic influence and user counts tend to be seen as positive (Rosecrance, 1999; Tomasko, 2006). Education, including open education, […]
Doctoral proposal reference list (incomplete)
Not really a post, but the easiest way to share… References Almeida, N. (2017). Open Educational Resources and Rhetorical Paradox in the Neoliberal Univers(ity) Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media- Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2011). Three generations of distance education pedagogy. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 12(3), 80-97. Atenas, J. (2012, Oct 22). Directory […]
Thinking small: Mastodon’s approaches to scale
NOTE: I wrote this last year. I think I got some things about Mastodon right and some wrong. I am seeking input now as I begin writing the literature review for my doctoral dissertation. (I’m also thinking about seeking to more formally publish this, but wanna learn what correcting it needs first…) Introduction “So the […]
Coming Home: Returning to a Pedagogy of Small
In July, I completed a two-week doctoral residency. While there, I settled on the “pedagogy of small” as my dissertation topic. It will build on the work of Elias, Ritchie, Bowles and Gevault (2018) who wrote: ‘Small’ is a loose idea whose value is difficult to communicate with words especially in the current educational context, […]
noticing, Sila, hearing, consent and community
It’s the weekend. Five days of classroom school done, five more to go. Two days of rest in between. Noticing On Saturday, shelley and david took strider, melanie and me* to the mountains: canmore, alberta. Before we left, shelley and david discussed where to take us, somewhere david could bike and we could walk, taking […]