On 30 March 2019, I presented a talk by this title at the Florida Collegiate Pride Coalition. Now that I’m leaving the institution featured in this conversation, I feel it’s time to commit these ideas to a post. When I announced my acceptance of a new job back in 2014, one characteristic of the school...

How easily can students access data about course materials? How easily can corporations access data about students? The access imbalance in higher education has turned classes into obstacles and students into profit-generating data points. I highlight those issues in this talk, presented on 10 Aug 2021 as the opening keynote for Digital Pedagogy Institute 2021,...

Activity provides a course’s vitality. Without a critical mass of contributions, course plans fall flat. Here’s my plan for future recovery.

Critical digital pedagogy calls us to set aside grading and instead provide feedback to help students improve their self-assessment skills.

Learning designed in advance often fails to respond to student needs and the immediate context. Can we design courses that empower students?

But what if students can't engage in a course? What if “being fully present” just isn't in the cards? Here’s how our praxis should respond.

What’s important in a class? The content of our courses were important, but it's the human connections we remember most vividly.

In a Worf-centric episode, three other characters demonstrate how to listen with compassion when someone's perspective differs from our own.

A trusting commander and a garrulous tailor remind us to let students learn for themselves through experience, rather than lecture.

In a truly awful (yet, oddly, award-winning) episode, Kirk models the benefits of learning from students while they develop independence.