EP 11 - OLC Design Thinking Session Wrap-up: How Might We Humanize Online Learning?

In this episode, John and Jason talk about their OLC Innovate 2023 Design Thinking workshop which asked the question: How Might we Humanize Online Learning?

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Resources:

• The JumpPage with the results of the design thinking session at OLC
• Michelle Pacansky-Brock https://brocansky.com/ and article: Pacansky-Brock, M., Smedshammer, M., & Vincent-Layton, K. (2020). Humanizing online teaching to equitize higher education. Current Issues in Education, 21(2), 1–21. https://cie.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/cieatasu/article/view/1905
• The book chapter “Humanizing the Online Classroom” by Renée E. Weiss found in Principles of Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom (2000)
  
• The idea of "Dehumanizing" education found in Paulo Freire's “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and a more current 2020 article here "A Critical Approach to Humanizing Pedagogies in Online Teaching and Learning"
• One article discussing Transactional Distance Theory in the online classroom
• Also Whitney Kilgore, 2016 looking at Humanizing online MOOC experiences 

And every educator should pick up John Nash’s Book: Design Thinking in Schools: A Leader’s Guide to Collaborating for Improvement