About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Knowledge is good.
I keep meaning to blog about Lower Ed, and it keeps not happening. But I have a few disjointed thoughts written down, so maybe I can make something of them. I keep thinking back to my time working at a … Continue reading
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Open trails
One of @cogdog’s many wonderful photos. I like the metaphor. Open education seems commonly thought of in terms of OERs, as free textbooks. Many of us see that as short-sighted, and missing the larger point and possibilities of open. In … Continue reading
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Open as we wanna be
“If You Were an OER, What Kind Would You Want to Be?” asked Maha Bali. Something I try to bring up whenever I talk OER is that resources – the stuff – is nowhere near as important as practices – … Continue reading
Stop, drop, enroll
I had been wanting to read Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed since I first heard about it, way back whenever, So it was fortuitous that it was selected for the Bryan Alexander Book Club. The reason I wanted to read … Continue reading