Reflecting on my first six months at Brock
The six months since I began serving as Brock University’s Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning has been an immensely meaningful
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Academia
Lessons from the Pandemic Journey (Part 2)
Last week, I gave a virtual keynote at the 2021 OLC Accelerate Conference. The title of my talk was 20/21: A Pedagogical
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Lessons from the Pandemic Journey (Part 1)
Yesterday, I gave a virtual keynote at the 2021 OLC Accelerate Conference. The title of my talk was 20/21: A
Read moreReflections on leadership, self-care, and building humane systems
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare Audre Lorde Three
Read morePivots, Pirouettes, and Piqués: Gracefully Managing the Anxieties of Remote Teaching and Learning
Reblogged from the KPU Teaching & Learning Commons blog. As we should all know by now, pivoting rapidly to remote
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OER, Equity, and Implicit Creative Redlining
The open education movement wants to be a force for equity. The argument is straightforward and powerful: Widen access to
Read more#ScholarSunday
One of my resolutions for 2018 is to participate regularly in #ScholarSunday (a wonderful initiative conceived by @raulpacheco). Because representation
Read moreJust how inclusive are “inclusive access” e-textbook programs?
As is now well documented and understood, unrelenting increases in the prices of university textbooks (typically between 3 and 4
Read morePrinciples vs. Publishers
This is been an interesting week. Yesterday I made the decision to formally withdraw a chapter from an edited volume
Read moreThe opposite of open is broken
The opposite of open is not closed; the opposite of open is broken. The more I think about it, the
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