Author: Brad Hinson

  • A New Pedagogy is Emerging…

    Remixed CC By teachonline.ca  In all the discussion about learning management systems, open educational resources (OER), massive open online courses (MOOCs), social media, options for assessment, learning analytics, new forms of credentials, and augmented and virtual reality, perhaps the most important issues, concern how technology is changing the way we teach and – more importantly…

  • Knowmadic Learning

    “A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge and innovation worker – that is, a creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Knowmads are valued for the personal knowledge that they possess, and this knowledge gives them a competitive advantage in social and work contexts. Industrial society is giving…

  • Annotating Beyond the LMS

    The advent of online learning and instructional design brought the classroom onto the web, and with it all manner of teaching: good and bad, coherent and incoherent, networked and disconnected. Whatever pedagogy any given teacher employed in his classroom became digitized. If I teach history by reading from my twenty-year-old notes, or if I lead workshops…

  • ThinqStudio Workshop: Seeking Digital Merit

    Join us this Friday for a discussion about the merits of merit.  We will explore standards of faculty RTP and discuss what counts, what doesn’t count, and what should count.  Our own Scott McLeod and Remi Kalir will join Margaret Wood (Center for Faculty Development), Michael Zinser (Psychology), and Pam Laird (History) in open discussion…

  • ThinqStudio Workshop: Re-establishing Wonder through Writing

    Lunch and learn with us on November 16th 12:00 – 2:30 in the Comcast Technology & Media Center (Tivoli). Interested in examining student self-reflection in your classrooms? This workshop explores ways to use free-writing across the disciplines for self-reflection, wonder and connecting more deeply with a topic.  Presenters: Dennis DeBay (SEHD), Maryam Darbeheshti (Engineering) &…

  • SEHD Tricks, Treats & FUN

    SEHD Tricks, Treats & FUN

    A collection of resources and mementos from this week’s SEHD Retreat.   Thanks to all of our presenters for a great day! Bud Talbot (Brad Hinson): The email-free course – Teaching with Slack Learning Design & Technology: Synchronicity – Leveraging Zoom & Google Docs Matt Mitchell: Beta-Testing the new SEHD Website Manuel Espinoza: Embedded class discussions…

  • Technology Cheat-Sheet 18-19

    Published with new faculty and lecturers in mind.  More detail is found in the Faculty/Lecturer handbooks. ============================= Digital Teaching & Learning Partnership and consultation on digital curriculum, course and program design.  We provision resources, manpower, and 20+ years of collective experience designing, supporting, and developing digital education.  We are your liaison with the CU Office…

  • thinqstudio summer gallery

    Thinqstudio traveled to a variety of digital teaching & learning conferences this summer. Our fellows and explorers will be leading workshops this fall to explore the highlights and grand take-aways. Here are a few thinqstudio summer highlights from COLTT, the Digital Pedagogy Lab and the Connected Learning Summit. thinqstudio 08/18

  • thinq about unconferencing w us

    thinq about unconferencing w us

    The thinqstudio unconference is in one week – Friday May 11th.  As an unconference, attendees pick the topics of the day (see below). There’s still time to register and vote on topics you’d like to explore!   Festivities will commence with opening remarks from Chancellor Horrell at 9:00AM – see you there! Suggested Topics (vote here)…

  • Kalir, R. (2018). Bit, Block, Sketch, Build – Hybrid Pedagogy Journal

    Congratulations to Remi Kalir on his contribution to the Hybrid Pedagogy Journal; and his reference to our work with thinqstudio, Domain of One’s Own, the Marginal Syllabus, and more… http://hybridpedagogy.org/bit-block-sketch-build-bricolage/ “Every course, every semester, and every workshop is a mutable foundation upon which to build for empathy rather than efficiency, to architect relations of curiosity…