My Statement of Graduate Advising
Following advice from a fantastic leadership coach from my university, I drafted a statement of advising philosophy in the past summer …
A Call for Third-Order Change in Learning Analytics
[Disclaimer: It’s summer time, meaning time for some bold statements.]
“Any educational intervention, for the obvious, …
Automate for Whom?
I have been working at a large public R1 university long enough – 4 years – to witness steady changes with technology …
#LAK19 Conference Report [Part 2]: Main Conference
(This is the second part of a report of the #LAK19 conference. See Part 1 here.)
It was the only beginning of many fun conversations …
#LAK19 Conference Report [Part 1]: Pre-Conference Workshops
I just came back from the 2019 Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference hosted by Arizona State University. This conference, …
#OAWeek 2018: My Personal Journey
This week is the Open Access Week 2018. Yesterday we spent some time during a student advising meeting talking about the what and why …
An Ongoing Experiment: Public Scholarly Annotation
Background stories I value Open Scholarship and have been practicing it for years – both in terms of doing it and learning to do …
Open Textbooks and Open Educational Practices
I was included in an MN Daily story about open textbooks last week. It was actually a bit embarrassing as I thought a few other …
Episodes from my trip in China
I am not an ethnographer.
But there were a few episodes from my trip to/in China last month that caught my attention, or …
Web Annotation of Research Articles in Learning Sciences
As a member of the Outreach Advisory Board of the Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS), I was really glad to see the journal putting …