I’m tired of being told that online learners are uninterested, uninvolved and unengaged because, from where I sit, I see us as completely connected to our work, communities, families and school–we may just be too involved to step back and notice the remarkableness of it all. My last post got me thinking about my academic […]
Category: Learning
From the margins
“marginality … is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance “ – bell hooks cited on the Marginal Syllabus from her book Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990) as cited in Maha Bali’s Reproducing Marginality There have been a few things in my Twitter feed lately that have been on my mind. One of them […]
Learning is… a month-long adventure
It’s been a long month. A strange month. I’ve spent a lot of time engaging with some different approaches to change in teaching and learning (the good, the bad and the pragmatic). Learning is social, collaborative and knowledge creation The OER16 conference showed the value of a small, dedicated community of practitioners in pushing for […]
Re-complexifying learning measurements
Bouncing around in my head: Access, agency, analytics, API, assessment, challenge, competencies, comprehensive, complex, core business, consultation, data, decomplexification, design, intentional, integrated, learnification, outcomes, roadmaps, plans, student-centered, transparency… I’m sorry if this rambles a little. I feel that just beyond my grasp, there is a place where these ideas coherently intersect. And so I bumble […]