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 | Jan 25, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning, Pedagogy
In 2021, we talked a lot about being “resilient” and “flexible.” We lived through yet another Pandemic Year, this one somehow full of more turbulence than the Pandemic Year that came before. If 2020 was the year of the Emergency Remote Pivot,...
by Jenae Cohn | Jan 6, 2021 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning, Pedagogy
To look ahead, we must always look back. Year-end review posts and compilations are always among my favorite things to write because they are an opportunity to reflect and consider what kinds of articles, ideas, and questions influenced and drove my work. In a year as...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 9, 2020 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning
As higher education’s instructors and administrators plan for fall 2020, there has been a lot of discussion about what different course models might look like given the interactions that might span places, spaces, and time zones. Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 29, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Pedagogy, Web Culture Musings
A snapshot inside the Seattle Public Library, a place of many good reads and learning! 2019 has been a tremendous year of learning for me. From writing my first full book manuscript to presenting at some new conferences, from forming new collaborations and...
by Jenae Cohn | Nov 15, 2019 | AmWriting, Personal, Professionalization, Writing
A glimpse into my weekend writing set-up at home: blanket, tea, laptop, and paper all scattered and at the ready! (This is my desk, by the way; my apartment is not big enough for a separate writing space right now, so this is actually just my coffee table converted...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 24, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Pedagogy
When we learn, we all travel on one road together, but there may be multiple ways (and tools and technologies!) we can use on this journey. I’ll be honest: calling myself a “technologist” does not always make my work legible to educators who work on...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 24, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Pedagogy
The Computers & Writing 2019 program: hand-drawn and festive! Starting my conference recap post on this year’s Computers and Writing 2019 conference, I’m struck by my struggle to articulate a starting point. I think that’s in part because this...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 20, 2019 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Web Culture Musings, Writing
What does it mean to “center ethical challenges” in the work of teaching writing to college students? This is part of the provocation at this year’s Computers and Writing Conference, where the theme is “Mission Critical: Centering Ethical Challenges in...
by Jenae Cohn | May 22, 2019 | Higher Education, Professionalization
Sometimes, going big should be our goal, but on many other occasions, an obsession with scale and size can get in the way of cultivating community. As someone who has been working at the intersection of learning, design, and technology for a few years now, I’ve...
