The Dispossessed
I'm reading Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed and am fascinated by the portrait of the three societies in the novel. An interesting side note is that my copy of the…
Tackling a Wicked Problem Online
Because of the uncertainty about the Fall 2020 semester, my university has decided that if a first year student wants to take all of their classes online, we would have…
TWP Action Plan
At the June 4 meeting of the Tackling a Wicked Problem instructors group, we were asked to develop an action plan to lay out things we need to learn about…
How Humans Learn: Curiosity
I have found that the first chapter of Joshua Eyler's book How Humans Learn connects nicely with what we're trying to do with Tackling a Wicked Problem. The chapter is…
January Jamboree 2019
I have been meaning to write a post about Plymouth State University's January Jamboree event but January and now 10 days of February have slipped by me. The only reason…
“I thought there was going to be more teaching done in the class”
I spent several hours yesterday and today looking through the student course evaluations of the 45 sections of First Year Seminar that we offered at Plymouth State University this fall.…
Implementing Cluster Pedagogy in the General Education Program
I am excited that Plymouth State University is the recipient of a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to implement Cluster pedagogy in our General Education Program. I have written…
Design as a Component of General Education
I have long been interested in design. I started my career as a computer scientist. I had fallen in love with programming at the age of 15 and wanted to…
Connected Learning: Thematic Pathways in General Education
I have been doing a lot of presentations and having a lot of conversations about General Education at PSU and its relationship to our Integrated Cluster Initiative. In particular, we…
Communicating about General Education
Communicating about all the exciting things happening in General Education at Plymouth State University has been a major focus of my work for the past couple of weeks. I have…
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…
Integrated Capstone Course for General Education
One of the President's Four Tools of Clusters is an integrated capstone experience for all students. PSU's Integration Connection (INCO) course was originally designed to be a capstone course for…
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…
Why is PSU Moving to Clusters?
President Birx wrote a blog post (which I've referenced more times than I can count) about the Four Tools of Clusters. It's important to note that three of the four…
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…
Guest Post from Alex Richard
A couple of weeks ago, my First Year Seminar (FYS) classes discussed ways that we might assess the learning outcome in our class related to General Education. In particular, at…
General Education and Clusters Revisited
Back at the beginning of the semester, I wrote about the realization I had that President Birx's Four Tools of Clusters mean that when we talk about "cluster curriculum," we…
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…
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