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Teaching Goes High-Tech With International Lab at UMW

August 8, 2019 by Jill Laiacona

When Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel created Digital Pedagogy Lab, or DPL for short, they imagined it would be a permanent fixture wherever they were teaching. Now the UMW educators think of it as a roadshow. Shortly after its inception, they began traveling the globe, bringing the lab to tech-savvy teachers and those who […]

Morris Quoted in Chronicle of Higher Education Article

May 8, 2019 by Christie Pugh

Sean Michael Morris, director of UMW’s Digital Pedagogy Lab and Digital Learning

Sean Michael Morris, director of UMW’s Digital Pedagogy Lab and Digital Learning, was quoted in an article on addressing student anxiety published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Love in pedagogical work is an orientation,” Morris wrote. “It is a decision to commit first to the community of learners and second to the material we’ve come to teach.”

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Best-and-Worst-Ways-to/246226?cid=wsinglestory

The Best (and Worst) Ways to Respond to Student Anxiety (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

May 6, 2019 by Christie Pugh

Morris Quoted on Plagiarism-Detection Firm in University World News

March 14, 2019 by Christie Pugh

Sean Michael Morris

Sean Michael Morris, director of digital learning at UMW, spoke to University World News about plagiarism-detection firm Turnitin. A long-time critic of the company, he said the rise of ed tech was tied to larger stresses being placed on college teaching. He said that as budgets shrink, class sizes grow, and large courses are often taught by time-strapped adjuncts.

“As classrooms get larger, 40, 50, 200 students,” he said, “teachers throw up their hands and say, ‘How am I going to grade so many essays? I’m going to let technology do it for me.’”