OER/Open Pedagogy Course

Open Courses logo with byline of, "recognizing professional development."

I was up at 4:45 this morning to attend a 5 am meeting for a class I am starting with a whole bunch of educators from Ireland 🙂 A couple of weeks ago I came across a comment about the class on Mastodon and figured I should take a look….

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Where is Your Network?

I was talking with Sarita last week and she was asking me to update a site I had made for her capstone course in 2018. The site is simple. It has information about Google sites, Weebly, and WordPress, essentially it is for some help for her capstone students eportfolios. She…

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Time for a Cool Change

A screenshot of a Google Hangout with a teacher and students talking with guest speakers.

Nine years we have been evolving. Where will we go next? I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Well, like the last year. Some of the more factual elements of our work have prompted this and some related challenges around my work in general. Maybe I am just…

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OER is Finally HIP

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES: A New High-Impact Practice

Well, according to the AACU OER is finally HIP. How cool. The report released earlier this year has all the same arguments we have been making for years, so it is good to see some high-level validation. In the forward, the report notes, “What began as an effort to reduce…

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Epiphanies with Gardner Campbell

Gardner Campbell looking serious.

Gardner recently retired after over 30 years of teaching and administrating. And dreaming. He has long been a ferocious defender of students and the making of a good and just internet. His CV is incredible and demonstrates his commitment to sharing his experiences with others and we were lucky to…

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A Look Back & What is Next

Teaching and *Learning* on the Open Web A UWB Teaching and Learning Community

This seems a bit early here on June 5th, but it never hurts to look back and see wonder about where you’ve been. Our presence here has been publicly visible since May of 2020. We began in 2017 with this free WP site? Remember?  I made this site in 2017…

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Epiphanies with Dr. Julie Shayne

Colorful magazine cover with imagery of women and symbols. Title of the magazine is Badass Wommxn of the PNW. Volume 3.

Dr. Julie Shayne is the UW Bothell recipient of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019. Her classes focus on politics, poverty, and resistance in the Global South, typically through the lenses of gender and feminism.  Becca We have a badass womxn on campus: Professor Julie Shayne. Dr. Shayne…

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Epiphanies with Giulia Forsythe

A group of people in a Zoom meeting.

Giulia Forsythe has been at Brock University’s Centre for Pedagogical Innovation since 2005, where she started as the Special Projects Facilitator. As the Director, Teaching and Learning, she continues to support the lofty goals of education to transform lives through high quality teaching, learning, research, and a commitment to equity,…

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