Public-Performance

One of the mainstays of my approach to open teaching is the “public performance” of student work. Since 2004 I’ve been encouraging the learners I work with to post their writing and other artifacts to publicly readable blogs. I have seen, time and again, that a different quality of work is done when people are making a permanent contribution to the “great conversation” compared to the work people do when they think that only the TA grading papers will see it. ...