The sudden shift from face to face learning to online learning as a result of the Covid-19 crisis has highlighted multiple deficiencies across institutions of higher education — everything from an almost total lack of knowledge about technologically mediated learning among a substantial share of faculty to basic infrastructure problems like insufficient bandwidth on campus…
Tag: teaching
Lighten Up!
When it comes to the transition to online teaching and online learning, I’m one of the lucky ones. I was already teaching online this semester, so I didn’t have to scramble to make the transition tens of thousands of college professors and hundreds of thousands of K-12 teachers have had to make over the past…
Trails, Paths, and Digital Literacy
Yesterday I had the good fortune to be the keynote speaker at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacy in Higher Education at the University of Rhode Island. It was incredibly energizing to spend a day and a half with a diverse group of educators across disciplines, all of them committed to the idea that improving…
Maps, Walls, and Digital Public History
This coming fall I’m teaching a new course: History of the Appalachian Trail. As envisioned, the class is going to be many things at once (which is likely a structural problem). It is a conventional history of one of America’s longest national parks, it is a chance to introduce students to the basics of digital…