Extended Call for Chapter Proposals – intersections of Feminist Pedagogy &...
Extended Call for Chapter Proposals for the open access book: Critical Digital Pedagogy – Broadening Horizons, Bridging Theory and Practice Edited by Suzan Koseoglu, George Veletsianos, Chris Rowell...
View ArticleOpen educational resources: expanding equity or reflecting and furthering...
Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D) is in the process of finalizing its publication of the special issue Shifting to digital: Informing the rapid development, deployment, and...
View ArticleOn experiencing being a student
Today I was putting the final touches on a paper focusing on the professional development opportunities that Canadian institutions of higher education provide to faculty members, and was reminded of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2021 reading list of graphic novels
Photo by Miika Laaksonen I’ve been reading more and more graphic novels over the years, and as 2020 finally winds down, I thought I would post which ones I am tentatively planning on reading in 2021....
View ArticleBooks I’m currently reading
Following up on the list of graphic novels I am planning on reading in 2021, I thought I would post what I’m currently reading. There’s no graphic novels in this post. The last graphic novel I read was...
View ArticleNew paper: Institutional Perspectives on Faculty Development for Digital...
We recently published a new paper examining Canadian institutions’ approaches to faculty development for online and blended learning. We analyzed open-ended comments from the Canadian Digital Learning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Talk: Striving for Balance in Online Learning
Photo by Dalton Touchberry Recently Middlebury’s Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry, hosted me for an online faculty workshop on the topic of Striving for Balance in Online Learning as part of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Talk: Radical Flexibility as a Potential Solution to the Challenges Facing...
Photo by Adam Valstar I gave a keynote recently for the Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Leeds, as part of their online symposium on Digital Transformation of Higher Education....
View ArticleCICan perspectives live show: hacking education in a digital world
Recently, I was a guest on a live show hosted by Colleges and Institutes Canada. This episode focused on “hacking education in a digital world.” It focused on the question: How can colleges and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New paper: The nature and effects of the harassment that scholars receive
My colleagues and I have a new paper available that examines various issues around scholars’ harassment. This one is led by soon-to-be-Dr. Chandell Gosse, and it is the third in a series of papers...
View ArticleOne year on; Homegrown expertise, expectations, and inequities
In March 2020, just a few days before higher education institutions and k-12 in North America shuttered down, my colleagues Shandell Houlden and I published a short op-ed. There’s one point in that...
View ArticleNew paper: Flexible learning, completion, time, and gender
Online learning is often framed in terms of flexibility, notably flexibility to participate in education from “anyplace” at “anytime.” Flexible designs are powerful – they allow enable access and...
View ArticleEDUCAUSE Horizon Report 2021 – exemplar projects solicitation
Once again, this year I am supporting EDUCAUSE with their effort at producing this year’s Horizon Report by participating on the expert panel. The 2020 report was the first I contributed to, and I was...
View ArticleCoursera’s IPO
Coursera has filed for an IPO, and here’s the S-1 form. The form is worth a read, if nothing else to get a sense of how the company sees itself. A few quick thoughts: Coursera had 3 revenue streams in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How many colleges and universities use proctoring software?
Understanding how many colleges and universities in North America use remote proctoring technologies matters to students, faculty, staff, and administrators, and it is important for practical,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Faculty social media use in 2021
Much of the research on faculty use of social media relies on Moran, Seaman, & Tinti-Kane (2011), Moran & Tinti-Kane (2013), and Bowman (2015) to demonstrate the degree to which faculty social...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who supports scholars who receive online harassment and how effective are...
“Imagine you publish a paper detailing the results of research you spent two years working on. You are excited and decide to share your work on social media, both so people can hear about it, and also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teaching During a Pandemic: Spring Transition, Fall Continuation, Winter...
Informed by survey studies using nationally representative samples, in a recent project we examined the nature and magnitude of remote approaches to teaching and learning at three points in time: April...
View ArticleCanadian faculty experiences during COVID-19: Never-ending repetitiveness,...
Many surveys examined faculty member experiences during the pandemic, highlighting the challenges and affordances of a mass transition to remote forms of teaching and learning, but also its unequal and...
View ArticleSurveys of Canadian students during the pandemic?
We are working on a project that is informed by surveys of Canadian post-secondary students during the pandemic. We have identified a number of surveys/reports and are making them available in this...
View Article