NOTE: It's not your speakers! We had some technical difficulties recording this episode and we are sorry for the choppy audio!
In this episode, Amanda and Jessica discuss online instruction, including the concepts of critical digital pedagogy and open pedagogy which were suggested by a listener on Twitter! They discuss incorporating these concepts into the online environment whether in a credit-bearing course, embedded instruction or one-shots.
Topics and Takeaways:
• Critical digital pedagogy asks many of the same questions about teaching as critical pedagogy but extends the discussion into the online environment and includes questions around the use of technology itself. However, online instruction has only been practiced for 20-30 years whereas humans have been teaching and studying pedagogy for thousands of years. How do we bring what we’ve learned into the online realm in a more holistic way rather than being limited by the technology? We need to re-envision online pedagogy!
• Open pedagogy is focused on themes of collaborative learning and inter-connected with open educational resources, open access and other forms of open education.
• How do we adapt our one-shot instruction to “work” in this environment? What are the criteria for successful online one-shots?
• Discussion boards are so limiting in their ability for actual discussion, engagement and assessment. And if we don’t like doing them as students or grading them as teachers, how can we expect our students to feel empowered to do them? We need a new method of creating discussion in our online classrooms.
Links to resources discussed in this episode: There are SO many great resources on these topics - this is by no means a complete list!
o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook by Nicole Pagowsky& Kelly McElroy (2016)
o Book: Critical Library Pedagogy in Practice by Jess Haigh & Elizabeth Brookbank (2020 - The editors just finished accepting proposals in July 2019)
o Eamon C. Tewell (2018) The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians’ Involvement in Critical Library Instruction, College & Research Libraries
o Monthly Twitter Chat: #CritLib
o Kenny Garcia (2019) Keeping Up With Critical Librarianship, ACRL (Great reference list!)
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Instructional Design With Sean Michael Morris
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Small Teaching Online With Flower Darby
o Sean Michael Morris: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Learning Management
o Podcast: The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast: Critical Open Pedagogy With Rajiv Jhangiani
• Kevin Seeber blog post on faculty collaboration
• Meredith Farkas blog series: Thoughts at Mid-Career Part 1 – Letting Go, Questioning, and Pathfinding
Thank you to the Twitter users we quoted this episode: @melodylynn457
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This episode's theme music:
Srivastav, A. (2013). Merry Go Round [Audio file]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/909-music/arnav-srivastav-merry-go
