Category Archives: education

A Short Annotated Reading List for AI Ethics and Policy

This is a reading list of essays, resources, and full-hatched policies at other institutions for AI and ethics. It is meant to provide a background for those interested in developing an AI policy for their courses or for their institution. … Continue reading

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Multi-Modality: Creating a Student Centric, Flexible Choice Instruction/Learning Model

I am at Achieving the Dream’s Dream 24 conference with a team from Clover Park Technical College in Orlando, Fl. I am interested in looking at highflex models from the instructional design perspective. These are my notes for colleagues – … Continue reading

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Instructional Design Positions at Clover Park

Clover Park Technical College is looking for two instructional designers for project positions. I work as an Instructional Designer at Clover Park and I can tell you it is an excellent place to work! Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) is … Continue reading

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Open Pedagogy and Teaching with Zines

I have recently, just for artistic inspirational reasons, went to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend. My wife and I used to live there in the early 90s when we first graduated from college and got married. She worked … Continue reading

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Clover Park Technical College is excited to host our second annual OER Faculty Institute!

Dates: Friday, August 11 and Saturday, August 12  Time: 9 am to 3 pm  Location: Zoom There will be keynote presentations from internationally recognized OER professionals as well as sessions on finding OER, accessibility in OER, open licenses, open pedagogy as well … Continue reading

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Frances Bell: Guerilla Edtech

This is a must read from Frances Bell: “Rather than taking a dystopian or utopian position, a ’rewilding’ is a more productive frame to address technology’s place within education (ibid). This is akin to other guerrilla projects such as gardening, wherein … Continue reading

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OER Faculty Institute: Call for Proposals 

The Clover Park Technical College’s Teaching and Learning Center is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 OER Faculty Institute to be held on August 11th and 12th completely online. Our emphasis is professional and technical education, but faculty, librarians, students, instructional … Continue reading

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Promoting Authentic Learning in the Age of AI

As an instructional designer and former English teacher, I have mixed feelings about using A.I. to produce school work. If there is a learning outcome that is legitimately met by a particular tool (including AI), then fine – let’s include … Continue reading

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AI and the Death of the College Essay

The Atlantic’s December issue has an essay “The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia” by Stephen Marche that says that AI is going to make the college essay irrelevant. I say good riddance. … Continue reading

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Remembering Char Gore

I worked with Char Gore in my role as instructional designer at Tacoma Community College. She was the most innovative and forward-thinking instructors I had ever met. Back in 2008, she was interested in working in virtual worlds, using wikis, … Continue reading

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