Fostering Care and Community at a Distance
There’s no built-in function in any technology which can produce community. Nor can building community be done from the front of the room; it is not an exercise or a manoeuvre.
Critical Instructional Design
Critical Instructional Design is a theoretical approach to the design of teaching and learning that grows out of the theory, practices, and praxis of critical pedagogy, especially as applied to digital or online learning. Through this lens, we understand education to be a practice of freedom, a discursive, digital act of resistance.
Love Letters and Pen Pals: Community through Correspondence
There are myriad ways that teaching online can preserve the most cherished or favorite parts of classroom pedagogy. What is required is thinking past the screen, past the platform, and beyond the distance that separates teachers and students.
Times which Require Greater Care: Ethos in Online Learning
Jumping into online offerings the way so many universities are wont to do these days is unhealthy for faculty and students alike. That move must be considered, careful, slow, and deliberate.
After Babel: Designing for Community
There are countless brilliant students who need the opportunity of school.
Education is not a field for mediocre hopes and mediocre dreams
"Education lifts, inspires, changes lives, builds futures, starts careers, reveals new knowledge. It’s this profoundly odd and profoundly unlikely and profoundly beautiful endeavor that strikes at what humans do most naturally and best: learning."
The (Critical) (Instructional) Design of Digital Pedagogy Lab
Critical instructional design moves toward realizing the possibility for learning that blends a new form of rigor with agency through a practice of inquiry, empathy, and emergence.