A ChatGPT Assignment
When I last taught Media and Cultural Studies six years ago, students worked on an Open Education Resource (OER) for the class. I wrote about this experiment in our new…
Cultivating Creativity
I wrote two new chapters, Creative Thought in PSU's Gen Ed Program and Cultivating Creativity, for my Creating Games OER. I think there are a lot of lessons for me…
New OER for Creating Games
I just created a new OER called Creating Games. I have been teaching a course called Creating Games since 2008. It fulfills a Creative Thought requirement in our General Education program and…
OER for Tackling a Wicked Problem
Draft of the #OER for our new Tackling a Wicked Problem course. Feedback welcome! https://wicked-problem.press.plymouth.edu/
Creative Commons Certification
I completed the Creative Commons Certification class last month and received my certificate yesterday. I strongly encourage anyone interested in open educational resources, open pedagogy, or alternative licensing for creative…
Advocating for “Open”
Because NH students have the highest student loan debt in the country, I think every instructor in public higher education in the state has an obligation to minimize student expenses…
Integrated Clusters, General Education, and the Creative Commons
Plymouth State University's president came to campus three years ago with a vision that, at the time, he called "Strategic Clusters" (which has since been rebranded as "Integrated Clusters"). I…
PCA 2018
I went to the Popular Culture Association Conference last week. My presentation was called Wicked Problems in Popular Culture: An Open Pedagogy Experiment in Engagement in which I talked about my experience with…
Creating OERs with Students
With the end of the Fall 2017 semester, I want to record my thoughts about creating the open educational resource (OER) Introduction to Media Studies with students in CM2770 (Intro to Media…
Media Studies OER
Here is the first set of chapters written by the students in Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies in our Open Educational Resource called Introduction to Media Studies: https://mediastudies.pressbooks.com/. Please remember…
A Win for Open
In my last post, I wrote about a new experiment in open pedagogy in my two sections of Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies. My students had been writing excellent…
A New Open Ed Experiment
I have been teaching Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies (CM2770) for a long time and for a long time, I've been concerned about text book prices. This introductory course…
Lessons Learned Five Weeks In
The semester is five weeks old and my experiment with open pedagogy in Plymouth State University's First Year Seminar has been an up and down experience so far. I have…
Open Educational Resource for First Year Seminar
My major summer project has been to create an Open Educational Resource to be used as the common text for Plymouth State University's First Year Seminar. The first draft is…
“Open” and the Cluster Initiative
President Birx has explained that a cluster-based curriculum would be one in which students could identify and articulate the connections between all of their courses, that they could explain the ways…
