Alyshia Galvéz and Jessica Yood
This essay reckons with a failed pandemic experiment. Two faculty members from different disciplines describe how the HyFlex platform, which allows students to access their courses digitally or in person, proved inhospitable to and dangerous for critical, community-based teaching and learning.
Read more… HyFlex Faith and Teaching Fails: The Afterlife of Pandemic Pedagogy
Will Mari
In this short essay, the author explains what went wrong when he asked his students to tackle an ill-conceived project—an in-class Wikipedia edit—and what he’d do differently next time.
Erica Richardson
This piece describes how I tried to get students in an introductory world literature survey course to link similar ideas and themes in their blog posts by asking them to create tags. I envisioned that these tags and the corresponding connections made would form an evolving archive of literary themes and cultural issues. However, the resulting tags were overly specific to each student’s individual blog post, which obscured connections rather than forming them. Ultimately this piece illustrates the challenges and potential of tags as a form of collaborative metadata that frames and develops student understanding of literary criticism.
Michael J. Cripps
A composition and rhetoric professor finds that gamification does not readily enhance motivation and learning.
July 3rd, 2017
Lisa Beckelhimer
An English Composition professor learns that it takes more than screencasting software for her students to truly learn their research strengths and weaknesses. Read more… Process Over Product: Allowing Student Researchers to Think for Themselves
