Remi Kalir

Journal article English Teaching · June 8, 2023 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to re-center playfulness as a humanizing approach in teacher education. As teachers navigate the current moment of heightened control, surveillance, and systemic inequity, these proposed moves in teacher education can ... Full text Cite

Learning Analytics and the Abolitionist Imagination

Journal article Journal of Learning Analytics · March 12, 2023 This article advances an abolitionist reframing of learning analytics (LA) that explores the benefits of productive disorientation, considers potential harms and care made possible by LA, and suggests the abolitionist imagination as an important educationa ... Full text Open Access Cite

Using social annotation to construct knowledge with others: A case study across undergraduate courses.

Journal article F1000Research · January 2022 Background: Social annotation (SA) is a genre of learning technology that enables the addition of digital notes to shared texts and affords contextualized peer-to-peer online discussion. A small body of literature examines how SA, as asynchronous on ... Full text Cite

Curating a Public Conversation about Annotation

Journal article Commonplace · July 22, 2021 Full text Cite

Remarking on Annotation

Journal article Commonplace · June 30, 2020 Full text Cite

“When I saw my peers annotating”: Student perceptions of social annotation for learning in multiple courses

Journal article Information and Learning Science · May 4, 2020 Purpose: Social annotation (SA) is a genre of learning technology that enables the annotation of digital resources for information sharing, social interaction and knowledge production. This study aims to examine the perceived value of SA as contributing to ... Full text Cite

Social annotation enabling collaboration for open learning

Journal article Distance Education · April 2, 2020 Collaboration is a conceptually ambiguous aspect of open education. Given inconsistent discussion about collaboration in the open education literature, this article suggests collaboration be defined and studied as a distinct open educational practice. A th ... Full text Cite

Civic Writing on Digital Walls

Journal article Journal of Literacy Research · December 1, 2019 Civic writing has appeared on walls over centuries, across cultures, and in response to political concerns. This article advances a civic interrogation of how civic writing is publicly authored, read, and discussed as openly accessible and multimodal texts ... Full text Cite

Open Web annotation as collaborative learning

Journal article First Monday · June 3, 2019 This paper describes the use of open Web annotation (OWA) for collaborative learning among online communities. OWA is defined by the open standards, principles, and practices associated with the open Web. Specifically, this case study examines collaborativ ... Full text Cite

Equity-oriented design in open education

Journal article International Journal of Information and Learning Technology · November 20, 2018 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is threefold: to describe the equity-oriented design of a publicly accessible and openly networked computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) initiative that has supported educator discussion about equity topics; to ... Full text Cite

Web Annotation as Conversation and Interruption

Journal article Media Practice and Education · January 1, 2018 This article showcases both the conventional and disruptive features of web annotation as media practice. To do so, we orchestrated a series of thematic exchanges about media practice, specifically those associated with openness and politics. We then publi ... Full text Open Access Cite

Mapping Playgrids for Learning Across Space, Time, and Scale

Journal article Techtrends · May 1, 2017 In this article, we analyze the production of learner-generated playgrids. Playgrids are produced when learners knit together social media tools to participate across settings and scales, accomplish their goals, pursue interests, and make their learning mo ... Full text Cite

Mobile inquiry-as-play in mathematics teacher education

Journal article On the Horizon · February 8, 2016 Purpose – This study aims to describe the feasibility of designing and fostering pre-service teacher inquiry at the intersection of community and disciplinary engagement. Mapping My Math (MMM), a game-based and mobile learning activity, guided pre-service ... Full text Cite

Playing (with) POST cards

Journal article On the Horizon · January 1, 2016 Purpose: This article illustrates through word, image and design the back-and-forth exchange characteristic of Project Oriented Semantic Trading (POST) Cards, a game-based professional learning ritual relevant to educators’ problems of practice. In describ ... Full text Cite

Gameful learning as a way of being

Journal article International Journal of Learning Technology · January 1, 2014 As a variation on game-based learning, we propose the concept of 'gameful learning' as a framework that encourages improvisation, playfulness, and social interaction, and which takes into account the unique contingencies of individual people and specific c ... Full text Cite

Exploring the role of instructional technology in course planning and classroom teaching: Implications for pedagogical reform

Journal article Journal of Computing in Higher Education · August 1, 2013 Instructional technology plays a key role in many teaching reform efforts at the postsecondary level, yet evidence suggests that faculty adopt these technology-based innovations in a slow and inconsistent fashion. A key to improving these efforts is to und ... Full text Cite