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#NWeLearn2018 Keynote: Change Management & Other Duties As Assigned

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Alyson Indrunas

This is the keynote that I delivered today at NWeLearn in Boise, Idaho.  I skipped a lot of words and free-styled a bit during the actual preso, and here is a link to my slides. This is what I wrote in … Continue reading →

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The Right Time to Burn A Match

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Alyson Indrunas

There’s a saying in bike racing that I always find interesting. “You need to be strategic about where you’re willing to burn a match in a race.” In race reports, you might read, “I burned a match on that switchback and … Continue reading →

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Course Curation in 5 Steps

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Alyson Indrunas

As I fly over this deeply troubled country of ours, my thoughts are on how to best facilitate two days of workshops. I’m going to get bloggy with it because I need to document how I’m trying to improve an … Continue reading →

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Solvitur Ambulando

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Alyson Indrunas

Solvitur Ambulando~Diogenes of Sinope It is solved by walking. I’ve travelled a lot of miles since July to talk about open education. OER. Open pedagogy. Course mapping. Design. Assessments. Outcomes. Courses. Open. Free. But not open. Sharing. Teaching. Education. Pedagogy. … Continue reading →

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At The Center of Learning

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Alyson Indrunas

A few years ago, a colleague gave me the advice that if I was going to become a leader who advocates for the professional development of and for faculty, then I need to make sure that I removed the word … Continue reading →

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Converging Pathways For Professional Learning

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Alyson Indrunas

This is the keynote speech that I delivered on December 11, 2015 at Clark College for their faculty professional development day. If you follow this blog, you may recognize some of what I’ve written. If you follow my blog for … Continue reading →

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Chihuahuas Among the New Foundlands: The Need For Communities of Practice 2.0 #dLRN15

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Alyson Indrunas

I’m not ready to reflect on dLRN15 yet on the interwebs, but here is the paper that I presented there at Stanford University, October 17, 2015. Thank you, lady leaders Amy Collier, Bonnie Stewart, Lee Skallerup, Adeline Koh, Kristen Eshleman, and (and others) for … Continue reading →

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Mentoring New-ish Faculty

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Alyson Indrunas

In my last blog post, I promised I’d continue my thoughts on the horrors of adjunctification/causualisation in higher education, but I’ve got to take step away for a bit. My adjuncts friends are facing an awful reality in the upcoming … Continue reading →

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Too New To Be Named

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Alyson Indrunas

“A lot of kids just trying to waste time creatively, I guess” ~quoting Peter Buck prior to the description of “So. Central Rain” as a song too new to be named on David Letterman, 1983. Last week I was among the … Continue reading →

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Transformation & Being Sloppy in the #fedwiki

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Alyson Indrunas

Like a lot of what I’m writing about lately, this post started in Ward Cunningham’s federated wiki. When I claimed my site, everything that I write is always, already open source. If you want it and have a site, you can … Continue reading →

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