James M. Skidmore

Don’t teach. Facilitate.

Teaching Online - A New Resource

These ideas about teaching online courses provide some concrete information and examples about how almost any instructor can create a simple yet effective online course using only a computer and a university’s learning management system. Bottom line: as higher education instructors scramble during the COVID-19 pandemic to move courses from classroom to online teaching, they will save themselves a lot of grief if they embrace the strengths of the virtual environment instead of trying to force face-to-face classroom techniques into the online space.

Graduate Seminar in Online Teaching and Learning

We’re all online teachers now. To help graduate students learn how to be effective online instructors who put student learning front and centre, I’ve designed this new course about online teaching and learning. Students will grapple with the big issues and debates surrounding online teaching while working on a term-length project to create and design an online course in their own discipline or field.

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Interview about Open Education

Recent Posts from SkidWriting.

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Done.
Done.

Takeaways and stayaways.

Tech for Experimenting.
Tech for Experimenting.

Having some fun with a new app.

Tech for Collaborating.
Tech for Collaborating.

Two t-titled tools - Twitter + Teams - to tie teachers together.

Tech for Curating.
Tech for Curating.

“Content curation” has become a buzzy marketing term, but there’s value in teaching students how to collect, store, and act on information.

Tech for Teaching.
Tech for Teaching.

Escaping the linear hegemony of PowerPoint.

Tech.
Tech.

Using tech for good.

Negativity.
Negativity.

A new survey suggests online learning has a negative impact.

Co-Creation.
Co-Creation.

And on the eighth day, instructors constructed knowledge with students.

Collaboration.
Collaboration.

Discussion forums are just the tip of the iceberg.

Recent Presentations and Webinars.

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Germany and October 7th
Germany and October 7th

This presentation examines how the war in Gaza has divided German society and rattled the country’s understanding of itself.

Digital Strategies for Engaged Learning
Digital Strategies for Engaged Learning

We’ve come to realize that teaching and learning are experiencing a great deal of disruption; with no end in sight to the turmoil, how do we cope? I argue that the way to navigate these choppy seas is to keep our eye on learner engagement.

AI in Teaching, AI in Learning: Practical and Ethical Considerations
AI in Teaching, AI in Learning: Practical and Ethical Considerations

The integration of AI in university courses raises significant ethical questions. How can we uphold academic integrity while utilizing technologies that seem bound and determined to undermine that integrity?

Do you define your cultural identity? Or does your cultural identity define you?
Do you define your cultural identity? Or does your cultural identity define you?

A lecture for prospective students at the University of Waterloo.

German Art Stories
German Art Stories

A course of four lectures for the Laurier Association for Lifelong Learning.

Developing a Digital Teaching Strategy
Developing a Digital Teaching Strategy

German Language Teaching and Learning Workshop