We can all get better at asking better questions to create accessible #HigherEd conferences for all learners. A few years ago, I flew home on a plane from Florida after being forced to cancel an in-person speaking engagement at the very last minute. …

And how do our answers to that question impact our work in higher ed? Two years ago, I saw a surging interest in trauma and its impacts on our work in higher education. Trauma wasn’t new, obviously. It is as old as time. But it reached a level of ubiquity…

Course Hero is big and growing, but they’re not here to save us. — cw: trauma, sexual abuse, addiction To begin, this isn’t an essay about any one person, or even about Course Hero really (though I‘m going to talk about them a lot). …

Okay three. Three tips. I’ve been thinking a lot about time lately. Sometimes these pandemic days move so slowly. I am restless. I want to move freely through art museums and used bookstores. …

I have noticed conversations bubbling up about the topic of what I call sustainable teaching. Perhaps I have some thoughts and feelings to add that may be of benefit. I wrote a book about videos, but pssst…don’t tell my editor…it’s not really about videos at all. It’s about mutualism. The…

Earlier this week I wrote about a troublesome uptick in anti-online rhetoric. Inside Higher Ed covered the topic today, citing Northeastern’s chancellor, who recently declared that in-person education is the “gold-standard.” Having earned my CAGS at NEU in 2012 in a 95% online program, and in light of the fact…

A few years ago, I met with a woman working in the healing professions to get some life guidance. We spent an hour together talking about my work in higher education, and how I constantly struggled with feeling like an outsider there. She listened thoughtfully, and then she told me…

After slowing down my workshop offerings in 2021, I’ll be rebooting this work in 2022. Knock on wood, right? Who knows what the tide will bring? The sense of precarity is profound. And yet, I know enough to know that precarity is not new, and that the best antidote to…

In early COVID days, colleges and universities did something out of character: they tore themselves free from the death grip of toxic rigor and adopted flexible grading policies to support student learning, success, and well-being. …