Recommended Blogs

There are many excel­lent blog­gers in the high­er edu­ca­tion world shar­ing inter­est­ing sto­ries, insight­ful expe­ri­ences and provoca­tive thoughts and ideas. These are just some of them. 

Dave’s Educational Blog
  • Author: Dave Cormi­er
  • About: With 25 years of expe­ri­ence as teacher, researcher and author, Dave is inter­est­ed in how tech­nolo­gies change what it means to learn and to have learned. He is cur­rent­ly a learn­ing spe­cial­ist for dig­i­tal strat­e­gy and spe­cial projects at the Office of Open Learn­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wind­sor in Ontario Cana­da.
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Jesse Stommel
  • Author: Jesse Stom­mel
  • About: Cur­rent­ly a fac­ul­ty mem­ber in the Writ­ing Pro­gram at Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver. He is also co-founder of Hybrid Ped­a­gogy: the jour­nal of crit­i­cal dig­i­tal ped­a­gogy and Dig­i­tal Ped­a­gogy Lab (2015–2021). He has a PhD from Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado Boul­der. He is co-author of An Urgency of Teach­ers: the Work of Crit­i­cal Dig­i­tal Ped­a­gogy. Jesse is a doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er and teach­es cours­es about ped­a­gogy, film, dig­i­tal stud­ies, and com­po­si­tion. Jesse exper­i­ments relent­less­ly with learn­ing inter­faces, both dig­i­tal and ana­log, and his research focus­es on high­er edu­ca­tion ped­a­gogy, crit­i­cal dig­i­tal ped­a­gogy, and assess­ment.
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Agile Learning
  • Author: Derek Bruff
  • About: Derek Bruff is an edu­ca­tor, author, and high­er ed con­sul­tant. He direct­ed the Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­ter for Teach­ing for more than a decade, where he helped fac­ul­ty and oth­er instruc­tors devel­op foun­da­tion­al teach­ing skills and explore new ideas in teach­ing. Bruff con­sults reg­u­lar­ly with fac­ul­ty and admin­is­tra­tors across high­er edu­ca­tion on issues of teach­ing, learn­ing, and fac­ul­ty devel­op­ment. Bruff has writ­ten two books, Inten­tion­al Tech: Prin­ci­ples to Guide the Use of Edu­ca­tion­al Tech­nol­o­gy in Col­lege Teach­ing (West Vir­ginia Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2019) and Teach­ing with Class­room Response Sys­tems: Cre­at­ing Active Learn­ing Envi­ron­ments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). He writes a week­ly newslet­ter called Inten­tion­al Teach­ing and pro­duces the Inten­tion­al Teach­ing pod­cast. Bruff has a PhD in math­e­mat­ics and has taught math cours­es at Van­der­bilt and Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty.
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EdTech Factotum
  • Author: Clint Lalonde, MA (Learn­ing & Tech­nol­o­gy)
  • About: Wran­gler of learn­ing tech­nolo­gies by day, Dad, cyclist, soc­cer fan & home roast­er of cof­fee by night, Clint is an edu­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gist and advo­cate for the use of open edu­ca­tion­al resources and open edu­ca­tion prac­tices in high­er edu­ca­tion. Clint has worked in the British Colum­bia post-sec­ondary sys­tem for 25 years and is cur­rent­ly the Direc­tor of Open Edu­ca­tion for BCcam­pus, a gov­ern­ment-fund­ed non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides teach­ing, learn­ing, edu­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy, and open edu­ca­tion sup­port to the post-sec­ondary insti­tu­tions of British Colum­bia. A found­ing mem­ber of the BC Open EdTech Col­lab­o­ra­tive, Clint is also on the Board of Direc­tors for the Apereo Foun­da­tion and is an Asso­ciate Fac­ul­ty in the School of Edu­ca­tion & Tech­nol­o­gy at Roy­al Roads Uni­ver­si­ty. Clint’s edu­ca­tion­al inter­ests include net­work learn­ing, social learn­ing, edu­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy, and open edu­ca­tion.
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