One of the things I love about my current job is teaching in our Learning, Design, and Technology MA program. Not only are the students brilliant, but I get to teach about Domains and creating their professional digital identity through their final portfolio and beyond. I really enjoy working with the students on helping them…
How might we decolonize time? I flippantly wrote in the chat yesterday “we need to decolonize time”, but a participant asked me to elaborate on it further, and this made me think that maybe this would be a good thought … Continue reading →
I am very proud of this work I did with Daniela Gachago and Nicola Pallitt (thank you both for inviting me to be part of this team!). I am proud of how we used collaborative autoethnography to help build towards … Continue reading →
This week I’m doing several things with the Chronicle of Higher Education. They focus on how college and university faculty roles may change as a result of the coronavirus. First, today the Chronicle published my article “How the Coronavirus Will … Continue reading →
(originally published on chronicle.com Prof Hacker blog, which has been taken down, and republishing now because someone was looking for it on Twitter). Look at the reference list for your latest few articles or presentations. How many of the people … Continue reading →
I’ve just signed a contract with Johns Hopkins University Press for my next book. The complete manuscript of Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Age of Climate Crisis is due in late 2021, aimed at a 2022 publication. The title … Continue reading →
When the choices and rhythms of lives change, as they have in our time, the study of lives becomes an increasing preoccupation. Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 1990 1. My mum Gwen was born in 1921. Tomorrow would have been her birthday, and I…
March 2020 marked the 10-year anniversary of my being online. I spent a lot of January and February writing a year-by-year reflection, as well as curating and creating two self-published […]
Here’s one thing about being a futurist. Sometimes the world confirms one of your scenarios or models, but it’s not something to celebrate. That’s because what you foresaw isn’t good news for anyone when it actually enters the real world. … Continue reading →
Since Academia Next came out (Johns Hopkins University Press) (Amazon) I’ve lucked into a bunch of media appearances. It’s excellent to get the word out about the book, of course, but I also love the conversational aspect. It helps me … Continue reading →
Have you ever been able to sit down with a faculty member with a great reputation and asked them questions about their career? I was able to do this because of a “Faculty Profile” assignment in my Scholarly Communications in the Digital Age course which is “an online course for graduate students interested in the … Continue reading “Introduction to New Series: Interviews with Dr. Doug Hartman”
There is just so much to be grateful for in 2019… so much of it professional, but also so much of it personal. This post is mostly professional. Here are some highlights. The year of holding the world in my … Continue reading →
What is writing a book like? How can people best accomplish a long writing project? Several friends have asked to share my experience, partly because I’ve written and seen into print three books (Academia Next, Gearing Up for Learning Beyond … Continue reading →
I’ve got a whole host of stuff to blog from MozFest (and Accessibility Scotland), and I’m sure I won’t get to all of it, but here’s an attempt at least! One of the best sessions I went to at MozFest was the Black Mirror Writers … Continue reading Black Mirror Writers Room – #MozFest 2019 session
How might AI appear on campus? Last week I published a very short article in EDUCAUSE Review where I tried to imagine how this could play out. I wanted to try a new approach to the topic, and I also … Continue reading →
The editor of a book I contributed to asked all of us contributors to send photos of our writing spaces. I usually write on my phone. I write my syllabi, my blog, entire book chapters and articles on my phone. … Continue reading →
Once this book is done… Once this conference is over… Once this school year is past… Once I get over this illness… Once that bill becomes a law… Once that child is out of diapers… Once we’re done paying tuition… Once my loans are paid off… Once I get my paycheck… Once he realizes that… Continue reading Once it’s done
In most of my work, I strive for openness and transparency as an open researcher and educator. My purpose in this is to explore and play with possible new opportunities for scholarship in digital contexts. I’ve written in the past about how (and why) to become a digitally agile researcher. I’ve also written about how to… Continue reading →
From the perspective of capital, what most of us see as tremendous ethical and even existential problems literally don’t count. Jason Hickel, ‘The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe‘, foreignpolicy.com, December 2018 1. This year I’v…
I jinxed myself. Last week, I made the observation on Twitter that I usually write about 1k words a day, and if I don’t, it feels strange, like my day […]
