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. …

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). It’s an essay wondering about what it means to live as an ethical person in 2022, specifically, what it means…

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…