In November, I showed up to therapy and presented two choices to my therapist. Option 1: The world is basically over, and I must accept the futility of it all. Option 2: Denial, one of my favorite coping mechanisms. Top 5 for sure. Pretend like it’s all fine, great, totally…

Registration for CAP is open for August 2022. I’m partnering with OLT Faculty Development to bring this offering to higher education faculty (K-12 teachers you are welcome too) and staff. We’re so excited to learn with you in August. Here are a few FAQs that might be helpful: 1. I…

The Zoom chat is a tremendous teaching tool. So why aren’t more educators and facilitators using it? I’ve been teaching and facilitating in Zoom since pre-COVID times, and the Zoom chat is one of my all-time favorite teaching tools. And yet, here we are, two years into the rise of…

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…