by Jenae Cohn | Mar 28, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning
The most common question I’ve been asked over the past four months is a simple one: what do you think the future of online learning is in higher education? It’s one of these million dollar questions that almost everyone working in higher education...
by Jenae Cohn | Mar 22, 2019 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
No matter what work we do in the university, maintaining our roots in whatever discipline(s) we came from can help us deepen our empathy and our ability to communicate well with our colleagues. Last week, I attended the Conference on College Composition and...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 28, 2019 | Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
Teaching an effective technical training is a knotty problem (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You sit at the front of a lecture hall. A presenter is at the front of the room, a computer projected on to the wall. The presenter clicks through a dozen workflows,...
by Jenae Cohn | Sep 20, 2018 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Pedagogy
This morning, I saw sedans filled to the brim with pillows and blankets stalled on side streets. Mini-vans poured into campus parking lots. A few stray students toted their suitcases, lanyards already draped around their necks, with their nervous parents trotting...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 12, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today is the day that our exhibits go up at the Salt Lake City Public Library, an exciting moment for our group to showcase the products of our work to a larger audience. I’m glad that there is a forum to share some of what we’ve been thinking about and to...