Critical Takes are posts which address problematic power structures and advocate for more equitable frameworks
In the era of remote learning, student group chats should be encouraged—not regarded with suspicion and punished. They carry many benefits for both faculty and students, promoting peer learning and providing a source of community… Read More »Humanizing Higher Education Through Group Chats
If like me you hate grading, you might be interested to read about some approaches to “labor-based” grading that I’ve been trying—including some of the struggles and questions I’ve had. But first, like an internet… Read More »Labor-based Grading and Lowering the Stakes
Estimated read time 1 minute 51 seconds via Niram In the forward to her edited volume Ungrading, Susan Blum quotes one of her undergraduate students from her grade-free (until the end) class from Fall of… Read More »Learning Together: Ungrading
This blog was written by Michael MacDonald as part of the work for the Hub Affiliates program. For decades, teacher-scholars with liberatory dispositions have questioned how grading systems in higher education have long been “presented… Read More »Labor-based Grading – A Short Annotated Bibliography Chapter One: The Bicameral Mind
My HUB Affiliate project is deeply rooted in my work on the College and University Pantries (CUP) Research team. Through this work, I’ve come to understand that college, which is often thought of as a… Read More »Education, Class Mobility, and Pedagogy
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Note: This post is part of our recently initiated Digital Detox series, which is designed to be in conversation with the Digital Detox resources at Middlebury College and Thompson Rivers… Read More »Digital Detox 3: Harm reduction and abstinence with Canvas analytics
Estimated reading time 3 minutes 45 seconds. In the weeks since the outcome of the US presidential election, there has been a lot of rhetoric around healing and coming together. We are, as a society… Read More »Restorative gestures in higher education
Read time: 4min 50seconds So the digital detoxes have kicked off at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Middlebury and they have my wheels turning. If you missed it, I proposed a digital detox here at… Read More »Digital Detox 2: How To and Recap
The new year is traditionally a time of renewal and rejuvenation with resolutions abound, complete with goals and intentions. A few years ago I was struck by the digital detox initiatives out of Middlebury College… Read More »Digital Detox 2021 – The Digital Learning Community in a Pandemic
Grades can cause anxiety for students and stress for instructors. All too often, it can feel like concerns about grades actually get in the way of authentic learning. I interviewed Central New Mexico Community College… Read More »Ungrading can work in STEM: A conversation with Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh