English Faculty Lead Digital Pedagogy Seminar
Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris will lead a seminar about digital pedagogy and
"massive open online courses" for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education in February 2013.
In Stommel and Morris' seminar, Digital Pedagogy and MOOCification, participants will discuss the viability of MOOCs as a pedagogical mode, especially
at small undergraduate institutions. Stommel and Morris define MOOCification as "a
pedagogical approach inspired by MOOCs that is unleashed in an otherwise closed or
small-format course." This seminar will aim to investigate the techniques that MOOCs
point toward and that can be used in on-ground, hybrid and online classrooms, no matter
the scale.
Jesse Stommel is the director of English literature and new media at Marylhurst University. Sean Michael Morris is a part-time faculty member for Marylhurst
University and manager of educational outreach for Hybrid Pedagogy.
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Campuses learn how inter-institutional academic exchange works by actively participating
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