portfolio – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Rethinking certification and traces of learning in our MOOC

mglessmer — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:22:59 +0000

Initially, we were very excited to have the opportunity to produce a MOOC to be run on one of the biggest course platforms in the world — to gain visibility and status through being hosted there, to be able to use a platform that handles participant accounts and automated certification through quizzes and rubric-based peer-assessment, […]

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Currently reading: Emerson (2026) on ““It Honestly Made Me Want to Work Harder”: Student Evaluation of Using Ungrading in an Online Asynchronous Course”

mglessmer — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:09:23 +0000

As I am thinking more and more about the details of our upcoming MOOC on “Teaching for Sustainability”, I am less and less convinced that I actually want to have automated certification at the end. So Emerson (2026) on ““It Honestly Made Me Want to Work Harder”: Student Evaluation of Using Ungrading in an Online Asynchronous […]

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On writing my teaching portfolio

mglessmer — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:11:16 +0000

About a year ago, I started writing a teaching portfolio to apply for LTH’s “pedagogical academy”, which, when successful, comes with the title of “excellent teaching practitioner” (ETP). During the process, I took teaching portfolio writing courses both at UiB and at LTH, both with a focus on writing portfolios specifically for the application to […]

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