23
Feb
2016
The Victorian MOOC
It is 1873. Something unique is about to happen. A steam-train gathers speed in the background. Carriages on cobbled streets. In a dark room children... Read More
08
Dec
2015
Hybrid Pedagogy’s 2015 List of Lists
Three consecutive years is enough to establish a tradition, right? In what has thereby become a tradition, Hybrid Pedagogy will “go dark” for about a month as... Read More
09
Dec
2014
MOOC MOOC: Critical Pedagogy
“To engage in dialogue is one of the simplest ways we can begin as teachers, scholars, and critical thinkers to cross boundaries, the barriers... Read More
20
Nov
2014
If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance
On November 21 at the OpenEd Conference in Washington, DC, Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel will present on critical digital pedagogy and MOOCs. This is the... Read More
15
May
2014
The MOOC Problem
The purpose of education is in large part linked to its standing as a social science. Philosophers dating back to Socrates have linked education to... Read More
03
Mar
2014
MMDU: Left Behind
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly... Read More
25
Feb
2014
MMDU: The Missing Manual
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly... Read More
18
Feb
2014
MMDU: Unpedagogy
Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει ~ Heraclitus MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of... Read More
10
Feb
2014
MMDU: “I Would Prefer Not To.”
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) was a rambunctious series of discussions in early 2014 about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics... Read More
04
Feb
2014
MMDU: Bleeding Horses, Breaking Habits, Overthrowing the Course
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly (MMDU) is a rambunctious series of discussions about the past, present, and future of higher education, focusing on topics rising directly... Read More
26
Jan
2014
MOOC MOOC: Dark Underbelly
“Too many people are drinking the MOOC Kool-aid (or dumping it out hastily) when what we need to do is look closely at the Kool-aid... Read More
17
Oct
2013
Tales of a MOOC Dropout
In September 2013, Hybrid Pedagogy published an e-book of graduate student essays focused on student experiences in MOOCs — from EdX, Udacity, and other xMOOCs, to improvisational... Read More
23
Sep
2013
How Do Learners Experience Open Online Learning?
During the summer of 2013, George Veletsianos approached the editors of Hybrid Pedagogy about publishing a collection of graduate student essays. The collection focused on... Read More
10
Sep
2013
Fight the Dead, Fear the MOOC: Questioning The Walking Dead MOOC
On October 14th, the Canvas Network will launch a new massive open online course inspired by the popular television series The Walking Dead. Instructure has teamed with faculty from the University... Read More
09
Sep
2013
#digped Storify: Learning in the Wild
On Friday, September 6, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a #digped chat to discuss the experiences of students in MOOCs and other open learning environments. The journal has always sought... Read More
14
Aug
2013
Meaningful Collaboration: Revitalizing Small Colleges with MOOC Hybrids
When MOOCs went viral in 2012, traditional small colleges reached an identity crossroads, a midlife crisis where idealism and wisdom collide. Although the main concerns... Read More
07
Aug
2013
A Plea for Pedagogy
It goes without saying that technology is changing education. Children’s brains are being rewired, universities are being threatened with extinction, and we will be in... Read More
31
Jul
2013
MOOCifying K-12: Relationships, Collaboration, Risk-Taking
Just over a year ago, my “learning” exploded. I was developing a hybrid Canadian online delivery program for Chinese high school students. I was encouraged... Read More
24
Jul
2013
In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: a Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice
This article is an attempt to address a possible gap in Connectivist thinking, and its expression in cMOOCs. It’s to do with the experience of... Read More
22
Jul
2013
MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and the Meta-MOOC
“Building community doesn’t mean that learning happens.” ~ from an audience comment at InstructureCon 2013 Learning in a MOOC Instruction does not equate to learning. This... Read More
27
Jun
2013
Straining the Quality of MOOCs: Student Retention and Intention
“Learners are classified based on their patterns of interaction with video lectures and assessments, the primary features of most MOOCs to date.” — Rene F. Kizilcec, et... Read More
23
Jun
2013
The Rise of MOOCs and The Myth of Mass Exodus in Traditional Higher Ed
For those who follow the MOOC debate, every day is Armageddon: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, “The Year of... Read More
12
Jun
2013
Pedagogies of Scale
From all the jails the Boys and Girls Ecstatically leap— Beloved only Afternoon That Prison doesn’t keep They storm the Earth and stun the Air,... Read More
15
May
2013
A Manifesto for Community Colleges, Lifelong Learning, and Autodidacts
As some are raised a Catholic or an atheist or a vegetarian, I was raised an academic. The university always had about it a mystique,... Read More
24
Apr
2013
Of Machine Guns and MOOCs: 21st Century Engineering Disasters
Victorian hubris opined, “All that can be invented has been invented,” and so we entered the 20th century emboldened with a Titanic which was unsinkable,... Read More
