Presentation on open educational resources and practices, as well as open pedagogy.

Slides for an invited presentation to faculty and staff at Langara College on open educational practices and open pedagogy.

Keynote talk at an event about open education. The slides cover the basics of open educational resources as well as responses to a couple of myths.

These slides talk about open educational resources generally (what they are, why they are valuable), and also some ways to find OER for philosophy courses.

These slides talk about open educational resources generally (what they are, why they are valuable), and also some ways to find OER for philosophy courses.

Slides for a guest lecture on Foucault for Humanities 101, a free course at the University of British Columbia Vancouver for members of the community. These slides talk about Foucault’s view of power and resistance, panopticism, visibility, and the self.

Slides for a guest lecture on Foucault for Humanities 101, a free course at the University of British Columbia Vancouver for members of the community. These slides talk about Foucault’s view of power and resistance, panopticism, visibility, and the self.

This presentation was part of a symposium on teaching Logic courses at the Canadian Philosophical Association’s 2019 meeting. It combined a discussion of growth mindset (Carole Dweck) with the idea of “small teaching” (James Lang), involving participants in talking about ways that students in logic courses might approach the subject as something…[Read more]

This is a worksheet I ask students to use to engage in self-assessment of their own essays. I use a version of the same worksheet for peer feedback on essays.

Slides for an Introduction to Philosophy course at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. These are about Michael Walzer’s article, “Just War and Terrorism” (2006).

Slides for an Introduction to Philosophy course at the University of British Columbia. These refer to an article by Soran Reader, “Making Pacifism Plausible” (2000).

Slides for an Introduction to Philosophy course at the University of British Columbia. These focus on Nussbaum’s article called “Capabilities & Human Rights” (1997).