Communities of Practice
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Teaching as Wicked Learning
One of my favorite books of the past 10 years is David Epstein’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Among many fascinating topics addressed in the book, I want to focus on the distinctions Epstein makes between kind and wicked learning environments and, more specifically, how people learn (or fail to learn) from Continue reading
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An Opening Statement (of sorts)
It is a commonplace that U.S. higher education faces not just a time of crisis, but layers of crises: The demographic cliff, the deep cuts to funding, the rapidly evolving and unpredictable impacts of artificial intelligence, the ascendant meme that college is no longer vital to career success, the incessant political attacks … The Chronicle Continue reading
Teaching Inquiry 