Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Online Learning Around the Globe
Safary Wa-Mbaleka + Leni Casimiro share about their work in online higher education around the globe on episode 503 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
As we deal with our local contexts, we adjust according to the culture of the people and how they learn.
-Leni Casimiro
Eventually I went to study and get a degree in about online education, then it really became a part of who I am today as an educator.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka
The definition of online education is much more expanded, especially with a lot of the tools that are available today that facilitate collaboration.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka
I believe that artificial intelligence is going to challenge everything that we knew about online education because at this point you can do a lot of things that we have no control over.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka
When you open online courses, you are opening it to serve the whole world. So we need to bring in this global perspective of online education.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka
Resources
The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education by Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Kelvin Thompson, and Leni Casimiro
Online Learning Consortium
Coopetition - A made-up word combining cooperation and competition
Asian Association of Open Universities
Larch Corrections Center & Canvas - Pursuing Knowledge While Incarcerated
Glocalization - A made-up word combining global and local efforts
2/1/2024 • 36 minutes, 59 seconds
Learning in a Time of Abundance
Dave Cormier shares about his new book, Learning in a Time of Abundance, on episode 502 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I want you to include the word hate in front of learning styles and see what happens.
-Dave Cormier
It's not about it being right or wrong. It's about understanding where people are from.
-Dave Cormier
I value the headspace of a child whenever they're learning. And I value that more than whether or not they get something right.
-Dave Cormier
To have common sense is to know the available decisions.
-Dave Cormier
Resources
Learning in a Time of Abundance, by Dave Cormier
Getting Air Episode with Dave Cormier, hosted by Terry Greene
Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Framework: The Four Moves
Episode 492 with Mike Caulfield: Verified
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
Getting Air Podcast Episode with Dave Cormier
1/25/2024 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
Expanding Our Collective Understanding of Generative AI
Autumm Caines + Maya Barak help us with expanding our collective understanding of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 501 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It's good to be skeptical.
-Autumm Caines
And I feel like a lot of times students sign up for all these accounts without reading the terms of service, without reading the privacy policy, without thinking about the data that we're giving over, and without thinking about how that data could be used by a company.
-Autumm Caines
In a world of AI, it is becoming more important to be able to be more critical about the information that's coming to us and to have better tools available to sort out the truth from the fiction or fictionalized.
-Autumm Caines
Resources
2023 Fall University of Michigan Dearborn Teaching and Learning Hub Scholar in Residence: Bonni Stachowiak
University of Michigan-Dearborn Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources
Scholar in Residence Webpage on Teaching in Higher Ed
U-M debuts generative AI services for campus
University of Michigan Generative Artificial Intelligence
Autumm’s AI Career Interview Prompt
TechnoEthics DigCit - About
GenAI Chatbot Scenarios in Higher Education
1/18/2024 • 47 minutes, 4 seconds
Generous Lessons from You
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni reflect on generous lessons from you on episode 500 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Let's do 500 more!
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Laugh boldly: Alan Levine discusses his appreciation for satire and celebrated Episode 399, when Bonni read a McSweeney’s column (with permission from McSweeney’s and the author). Bonni also shares a clip from Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield, in which they both reflected on a This American Life story about the tooth fairy
Cry openly: Dave introduced a clip of our daughter years ago on Coaching for Leaders Episode 310 with Tina Payne Bryson about how hard crying is when you’re three… Bonni considers how hard crying is when you’re much older than three and remembers Episode 165: Teaching Lessons from Course Evaluations. Bonni hopes for yet-another interview with Karen Costa… this time, about a chapter Karen wrote for a book about trauma informed teaching
Show Up: Bonni plays a clip from Episode 141 with Clint Smith where he read a poem from Counting Descent.
Think deeply: Derek Bruff (host of the Intentionally Teaching Podcast) describes how Episode 89 with Betsy Barre about course evaluations got him thinking
Think again: Maha Bali reflects on how Mia Zamora articulated another interpretation of their research collaborations on Episode 475
Be humble: Rob Eaton shares about mistakes and vulnerability regarding Episode 470 and Bonni reminisces about Episode 100 and her first conversation with Ken Bain on Episode 36
Connect generously: James M. Lang (with many times he has been interviewed on Teaching in Higher Ed) reflects on his own learning
Amplify voices: Karen Caldwell shares about Episode 432
1/11/2024 • 44 minutes, 23 seconds
Fostering Neurodivergent Learners’ Growth
Will Hennessy shares about fostering neurodivergent learners’ growth on episode 499 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, internal and external tics that occur repeatedly in the same way. OCD is a neurological disorder that causes problems with information processing.
-Will Hennessy
I honestly thought that I just wasn't as smart as my peers, that I just needed to try harder, or that one day, I guess, it would just kinda all click in my brain. Now, obviously, I know that's not the case now, but that's kind of where I was at.
-Will Hennessy
I want to create inclusive learning environments for neurodivergent learners and introverts, students like me.
-Will Hennessy
Structure is incredibly important for neurodivergent learners. Even though we're implementing flexibility and choice, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be a free for all where students can just do whatever they want, that could actually hinder learning.
-Will Hennessy
Neurodivergent learners need structure. All learners need need structure.
-Will Hennessy
Resources
Episode 493 with Maha Bali: Openness as a Way of Being
Tourette's syndrome
Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Sarah Silverman’s Workshops
Liz Norell
TILT Framework
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Remi Kalir on Annotating Your Syllabus
Good Omens Scene: Crowley Tells His Plants to Grow Better
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain, by Todd Zakrajsek
1/4/2024 • 49 minutes, 11 seconds
Equipping Educators to Navigate AI
Stein Brunvand talks about equipping educators to navigate artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 498 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When a novice teacher might observe a more experienced teacher, they're not always going to notice the kinds of decisions that the teacher is making that aren't verbalized.
-Stein Brunvand
It's not so much about learning a specific tool, but being open to learning what's available to you and using what you have available to you to try to improve the learning experience.
-Stein Brunvand
Let’s learn how can we be flexible and adaptable so that we can roll with whatever is available to us.
-Stein Brunvand
Resources
University of Michigan Committee to explore applications of generative AI
Generative Artificial Intelligence Committee Report; University of Michigan
UM-D Scholar in Residence Page on Teaching in Higher Ed
ISTE AI Explorations Program
12/28/2023 • 35 minutes, 54 seconds
Personalized Learning Pedagogies
Paul Galbally & Fevronia Christodoulidi discuss personalized learning pedagogies on episode 497 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The closer we get to each other, the more we understand each other.
-Paul Galbally
This course will make you uncomfortable. And if it doesn't, we're not doing our job.
-Paul Galbally
We get to know our students, and they get to know us.
-Paul Galbally
A brave space is when you can make a space safe by talking about things.
-Paul Galbally
It is more about learning to think rather than having all the solutions.
-Fevronia Christodoulidi Fenia
Resources
Personalised learning pedagogies and the impact on student progression and retention: the case of counselling training within a university setting, by Paul Galbally & Fevronia Christodoulidi
Fevronia Christodoulidi | University of East London (uel.ac.uk)
Fevroni’s Private Practice
Paul Galbally | University of East London
Paul Galbally’s ORCID
12/21/2023 • 42 minutes, 40 seconds
How to Know Our Audience in an AI World
Jennifer Coon talks about how to know our audience in an AI world on episode 496 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I'm always interested in talking with students about how they got to the point that they're at today.
-Jennifer Coon
There is value in the blank slate.
-Jennifer Coon
Professors are the ones who are really training students to be the next economists, to be the next scientists, to be the next accountants, to be the next everything.
-Jennifer Coon
Service learning is a chance for students to get out of themselves and to experience what it feels like to do some good for someone else.
-Jennifer Coon
Resources
Generative AI University of Michigan
AI Tools
U-M Guidance for Faculty/Instructors
Autumm Caines
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
12/14/2023 • 42 minutes, 16 seconds
Using QR Codes to Design Engaging Learning Experiences
Tolulope (Tolu) Noah shares about using QR codes to design engaging learning experiences on episode 495 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
QR codes can be used to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles, specifically in regards to providing multiple means of engagement and providing multiple means of representation.
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah
If your students created a video, why not create QR codes to share that video with other students so that they can learn from the content too?
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah
Resources
8 Ways to Use QR Codes in Higher Education Classrooms
Share Pages with a QR Code in Google Chrome
One-Pager: Scanning & Creating QR Codes via Shortcuts
Video: Creating QR Codes
Adobe Express QR Code Generator
Bitly
Making QR Codes More Accessible and Improving Business Accessibility, by Benjamin Rousey
Accessibility and QR Codes by Joe Lamyman
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Mobile Mindful Teaching & Learning, by Christina Moore
Mentimeter
Flip
Padlet
Gallery Walk
12/7/2023 • 36 minutes, 46 seconds
The Ones Too Often Left Behind In Higher Education
Todd Zakrajsek shares about the ones who are too often left behind in higher education on episode 494 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don't wanna see a person left behind.
-Todd Zakrajsek
I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Nobody fails alone.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Todd’s website
Lilly Conferences
Past TiHE Episodes with Todd Zakrajsek
The New Science of Learning, by Todd Zakrajsek
Donate Bluesky Codes to Members of the Chronic Illness/Disability Communities
11/30/2023 • 47 minutes, 42 seconds
Openness as a Way of Being
Maha Bali exudes openness as a way of being on episode 493 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don't really know everything I have to say, but I'm willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it.
-Maha Bali
If people don't have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they'll just say they are fine.
-Maha Bali
This is a space where everyone in the room has to be collectively inclusive, and that's kind of part of what equity and inclusion in facilitation and in classrooms needs to be.
-Maha Bali
My mentoring is not out of responsibility as something that I have to, I do it with joy because I’m building relationships with people.
-Maha Bali
Resources
Winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence
adrienne maree brown
Emotion Grid
Nurturing Learner Empowerment with Intentional Equity, Care and Compassion, presented by Maha Bali for eCampus Ontario
Maha’s Slide Deck from Her Presentation
My Role Model for Open, Caring and Generous Mentoring Jon Nixon, by Maha Bali
Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and Their Legacies, by Jon Nixon
11/22/2023 • 40 minutes, 39 seconds
Verified with Mike Caulfield
Mike Caulfield shares about Verified, which he co-authored with Sam Wineburg, on episode 492 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The real impact is that you have a number of people within a community that kind of keep other people in check.
-Mike Caulfield
The field of argumentation theory has provided illuminating insights.
-Mike Caulfield
I want you to have the tools to be taken seriously.
-Mike Caulfield
I want you to be able to argue ethically.
-Mike Caulfield
Resources
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg*
SIFT 3-Hour Mini Course
Life Cereal Mikey Likes It Commercial
Toilet Paper Patent on Amazon
Google Patents Toilet-Paper Roll
11/16/2023 • 45 minutes, 43 seconds
Teaching Through Experiences
Stephen Bloch-Schulman talks about teaching through experiences on episode 491 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When students tell me what they think their beliefs are, what I'm hearing is what they wish they believe, not what they believe.
-Stephen Bloch-Schulman
I think what we're doing when we're talking about beliefs is often just naming how we wish we were.
-Stephen Bloch-Schulman
Resources
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg
You’re Doing it Wrong
Schitt’s Creek Boop
A critique of methods in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, by Stephen Bloch-Schulman
Teaching through experiences – Interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman
Eric Schwitzgebel - Intellectualism about beliefs
Eric Schwitzgebel’s scholarship
11/9/2023 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
Navigating Insecurity in Teaching
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about navigating insecurity in teaching on episode 490 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
20 years later and I still run into nervousness. The intensity and the kind of nervousness is different, and it often comes up in unsuspecting ways.
-Dave Stachowiak
How can you open the first 10 seconds of a class to capture attention, tell a story, and engage participants?
-Dave Stachowiak
I always have a something in my back pocket, either literally or figuratively.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources
PollEverywhere
You Don’t Have to Wait for the Clock to Strike to Start Teaching, by Peter Newbury
Episode 6: The 8 second rule
Episode 197: Interactivity and Inclusivity Can Help Close the Achievement Gap with Viji Sathy & Kelly Hogan
Episode 425: Inclusive Teaching with Viji Sathy & Kelly Hogan
Episode 475: Making Space for Emergence with Mia Zamora
Quizlet Live
Exit ticket
Muddiest point
Episode 324: Teaching Effectively with Zoom with Dan Levi
Teaching Effectively with Zoom Book
Maha Bali
11/2/2023 • 40 minutes, 27 seconds
Teaching with Artificial Intelligence
Lindsay Doukopoulos talks about teaching with artificial intelligence on episode 489 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learning is exceptionally difficult to really assess in a meaningful way at scale.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Students are almost exactly at the same place that faculty are in terms of their skepticism and anxiety about these tools.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Learning is change.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Resources
Auburn Online’s Teaching with Artificial Intelligence Course
Auburn University Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Announcement About New Course
DeElla Wiley, Lindsay’s Colleague
Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay
Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 375 with Betsy Barre
AI x Education Conference: Driven by Students, Dedicated to Educators
"If AI is the Answer, What is the Question: Thinking about Learning and Vice Versa" Dr. Chris Dede
What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI, by Alex Reisner for The Atlantic
Life101 Podcast, by Mike Wesch
10/26/2023 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
Climate Action Pedagogy
Karen Costa shares about climate action pedagogy on episode 488 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Start where you are.
-Karen Costa
Some folks are starting to use these renewable resources like solar and wind to power servers.
-Karen Costa
Resources
adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown
Holding Change, by adrienne maree brown
Pithari, example from Sandie Morgan’s life
Regeneration's Nexus
All We Can Save
Venn Diagram
OneHE Climate Action Pedagogy Co-Working Session
10/19/2023 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Overcoming Imposter Anxiety
Ijeoma Nwaogu shares about her book on Overcoming Imposter Anxiety on episode 487 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We start to question ourselves, and that feeling is really uncomfortable.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu
One word that I use in the book is called imposterize.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu
It's so valuable to be around diverse folks, folks who are different from you, but it's so important to also be in with like-minded folks, folks who look like you, folks who have similar beliefs because that can be reinforcing of who you are and to let you know that you are enough.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu
Presence is far more important than someone's performance.
-Ijeoma Nwaogu
Resources
Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self, by Ijeoma Nwaogu
JOY (Unspeakable) - Voices of Fire
Goodwill Hunting
Scene: It’s not your fault
Brené Brown
jodi-ann burey
Alexandra Carter’s Instagram
Ted Lasso playing darts clip
10/12/2023 • 45 minutes, 6 seconds
Design for Learning
Jenae Cohn speaks about design for learning on episode 486 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
At the core of any class we're teaching, we have to think about how a student or a user is going to navigate through that experience.
-Jenae Cohn
I encourage a balance of getting some feedback from your students after the class is over and using the analytics within it to come to some conclusions about what you could revise or do differently the next time you offer the course.
-Jenae Cohn
Resources
Jenae’s website
Design for Learning: User Experience in Online Teaching and Learning, by Jenae Cohn and Michael Greer
Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, by Jenae Cohn
Miro
Jamboard
Richard Mayer
10/5/2023 • 39 minutes, 46 seconds
How to Use Questions in New Ways
Pia Lauritzen shares how to use questions in new ways on episode 485 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We know that questions are extremely powerful.
-Pia Lauritzen
We actually use questions to distribute responsibility.
-Pia Lauritzen
Resources
Pia Lauritzen’s website
Questions: Brief Books About Big Ideas, by Pia Lauritzen
What You Don’t Know About Questions (TEDx Talk)
Six Reasons Successful Business Leaders Love questions, by Pia Lauritzen
Question Jam
Qvest
Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal, by Stefanie Posavec & Giorgia Lupi
9/28/2023 • 43 minutes, 38 seconds
Intro to Neurodiversity for Educators
Sarah Silverman shares an introduction to neurodiversity on episode 484 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
Autism is increasingly understood as a spectrum condition and experience.
-Sarah Silverman
Neurotypical doesn't just mean a diagnosis, it means somebody who doesn't fall into the norms of how society believes people should think in think and act and behave.
-Sarah Silverman
It is important to reflect on your own educational journey.
-Sarah Silverman
Resources
Instructors are learners too: Making faculty development accessible to faculty, by Sarah Silverman
A correction on the term neurodiversity, by Martijn Dekker
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement, edited by Steven K. Kaap
Autistics.Org and Finding Our Voices as an Activist Movement, by Laura A. Tisoncik
Hans Asperger
9/20/2023 • 42 minutes, 36 seconds
Undoing the Grade
Jesse Stommel shares about Undoing the Grade on episode 483 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
For us to be talking about something like unlearning or ungrading, there's an irony in that because we are the people who need to do that work the most and the people for whom that work is probably the hardest.
-Jesse Stommel
The only wrong way to do something is to do it unintentionally, to do it in a way that isn't carefully thinking through what we're doing.
-Jesse Stommel
Resources
Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade and How to Stop
Jesse Stommel’s website
Hybrid Pedagogy Journal
An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy
Henry David Thoreau
9/14/2023 • 49 minutes, 38 seconds
Connections Are Everything
Isis Artze-Vega and Oscar Miranda Tapia discuss Connections Are Everything on episode 482 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If it's not working for you and you can't maintain a certain level of wellness, then it's not working. No matter what you're seeing happen in your students, it is not working because it cannot happen at the cost of your wellness.
- Isis Artze-Vega
It's about being present.
- Isis Artze-Vega
The relationship that you have with someone does not have to be this long sustained, always impactful kind of relationship. That one short conversation with a student may be the words or the sentence that they need to hear that day.
-Oscar Miranda Tapia
Resources
Connections Are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education, by Peter Felton, Leo M. Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, and Oscar R. Miranda Tapia
About the Authors
Research Details
Resources
9/7/2023 • 37 minutes, 27 seconds
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age
Derek Bruff shares about assignment makeovers in the AI age on episode 481 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
The technologies at play in higher education changed dramatically in a very short amount of time, and that required us to kind of rethink what we were doing as teachers.
-Derek Bruff
For my course, I felt like it is fine to teach them to write using the AI tools as long as I can help them learn to use the tools well.
-Derek Bruff
Resources
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Reading Response Edition, by Derek Bruff
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Essay Edition, by Derek Bruff
Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Infographics Edition, by Derek Bruff
Humberto Garcia
Making Over Assignments in Light of New Generative AI Tools, by Derek Bruff
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
Cheating Lessons, by James Lang
Episode 19 with James Lang: Cheating Lessons
Mike Caulfield’s SIFT framework
4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom, by Flower Darby for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Elicit
The Homework Apocalypse, by Ethan Mollick
8/31/2023 • 44 minutes, 19 seconds
Teaching Philosophy Outside
Ryan Johnson shares about teaching philosophy outside on episode 480 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
What are the dominant sounds on campus? What are the kind of patterns at which people move? What are the movement of the trees versus the light versus the animals versus people?
-Ryan Johnson
The relationship between the teacher and a student is not intelligence to intelligence, but instead will to will.
-Ryan Johnson
A good distraction is one that can help us come back together, that can allow our attention or our stamina to have a release to return.
-Ryan Johnson
I cultivate brave spaces, not safe spaces.
-Ryan Johnson
I started to notice all these things about campus that one does not as they move through, rather than sits in and resonates with, especially the sounds.
-Ryan Johnson
Resources
Teaching Philosophy Outside: Blog of the APA
Anthony Weston
The experience of nature: a psychological perspective : Kaplan, Rachel : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Elon University Sustainability: Landscaping & Grounds
Elon University Princeton Review names Elon the nation’s “best-run college” with the #1 “most beautiful campus” and the #2-ranked study abroad program
Elon University Weston publishes 'Teaching as the Art of Staging'
Becky Vartabedian
Elon University Center for Environmental Studies: Environmental Center at Loy Farm
Philosophy of Movement
Jill McSweeney
About Elon University / U.S. News & World Report
Elon University Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning
Philosophy outdoors: First person physical | 10 | Philosophy, Risk and
Philosophy Bakes Bread, Radio Show & Podcast: Ep57 - Philosophy Outdoors
Merlin CCC - A Philosophy-Centered 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
8/24/2023 • 44 minutes, 10 seconds
Lessons in Life and Retrieval Practice
Pooja Agarwal shares about lessons in life and retrieval practice on episode 479 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
100 years of research demonstrates that the magic of learning happens at the third stage, the retrieval stage.
-Pooja Agarwal
I normalize forgetting, that's part of learning.
-Pooja Agarwal
Be practical and realistic when it comes to incorporating the science of learning.
-Pooja Agarwal
Resources
Retrieval Practice Website
James Lang’s Small Teaching
The Mapparium Globe
Episode 451 with Rob Parke
How to Create a Google Form with Branching
How to Link to a Specific Part of a Google Doc
Maha Bali
Flip
8/17/2023 • 40 minutes, 8 seconds
Hyflex Revisited
David Rhoads and Bonni Stachowiak revisit the topic of hyflex learning on episode 478 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Hyflex in general is a choice between in person and synchronous, or in person and asynchronous, or a choice of all three of those things.
-David Rhoads
Resources
Hyflex Learning Community
Hybrid Flexible Course Design, edited by Brian J. Beatty
Episode 309: Hyflex Learning with David Rhoads
Episode 327: Misconceptions About Hyflex with David Rhoads
8/10/2023 • 45 minutes, 17 seconds
Ways of Being Intentionally Inclusive
Yasser Tamer discusses ways of being intentionally inclusive on episode 477 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect.
-Yasser Tamer
Do whatever you are interested in.
-Yasser Tamer
Let students choose their own pathway.
-Yasser Tamer
It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible.
-Yasser Tamer
Resources
Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic Integrity? (with @YasserTammer), by Maha Bali
Video: MYFest22 Syllabus Accessibility Jam with Alexandra Gazis and Yasser Tamer
Video: The Experience of a Visually Impaired Student Yasser Tamer, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Business Model You: The One-Page Way to Reinvent Your Work at Any Stage, by Bruce Hazen, Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, + Alan Smith*
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey*
Soliya
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series through Equity Unbound
Write Good ALT text
Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno
8/3/2023 • 39 minutes, 23 seconds
Unlocking Our Imagination Inside and Outside the LMS
Bonni Stachowiak discusses unlocking our imagination inside and outside the LMS on episode 476 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When it comes to getting people to be curious, we don't want them to be confused. High structure is really important, and then within the structure we want to be able to have elements of surprise and delight.
-Bonni Stachowiak
You're almost always going to be better off linking versus uploading. A similar idea would be thinking about embedding.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
InstructureCon 2023 Presentation Resources: Unlocking Our Imagination
Presentation slide deck
Small Teaching, by James Lang*
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone, but Thomas Tobin and Kirsten Behling
Video: Dave’s first day of high school chemistry class
Derek Bruff
A Time for Telling
7/27/2023 • 31 minutes, 16 seconds
Making Space for Emergence
Mia Zamora shares how she approaches making space for emergence in her teaching on episode 475 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Intentionality and listening are important qualities for facilitation.
-Mia Zamora
We need to lean into a sense of generous authority.
-Mia Zamora
Be mindful of what you know versus what the computer is suggesting.
-Mia Zamora
Resources
What if Classrooms Were Rooted in Care, by Angela DeBarger
The Equity-Care Matrix: Theory and Practice, by Maha Bali and Mia Zamora
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality as Critical Instructional Design, by Maha Bali and Mia Zamora
Building Community Online through Intentionally Equitable Hospitality, A CoLab with Mia Zamora, Maha Bali, and Autumm Caines
7/20/2023 • 45 minutes, 21 seconds
Deliberative Pedagogy
Timothy J. Shaffer shares about deliberative pedagogy and his work with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) at the University of Delaware Biden School of Public Policy and Administration on episode 474 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Listening deeply enough to be changed by what you learn is a hugely important practice.
-Timothy Shaffer
Resources
Deliberative Pedagogy, edited by Idit Manosevitch, Maxine S Thomas, Timothy J Shaffer, and Nicholas V. Longo
Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialog and Deliberation in Higher Education, edited by Nicholas V Longo and Timothy J. Shaffer
COMM 326: Small Group Discussion Methods, by Timothy J. Shaffer (open alternative textbook initiative)
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Initiative
Frank Fischer; Professor Emeritus, Rutgers
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World, by Daniel Yankelovich
The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict Into Cooperation, by Daniel Yankelovich
John Gastil
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition, by Sam Kaner
Sam Kaner: “The Groan Zone”
National Coalition for Dialog and Deliberation
Research Methods in Deliberative Pedagogy, edited by Selen A. Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicol Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça
7/13/2023 • 43 minutes, 19 seconds
Living in the Questions
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak answer listener questions on episode 473 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Forgetting is the friend of learning.
-Bonni Stachowiak (quoting Robert Björk)
Our stated preferences aren’t always going to align with having sufficient challenge in that learning experience to produce deeper, more memorable learning.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Trust students.
-Bonni Stachowiak (quoting Jesse Stommel and many others)
Resources
Pia Lauritzen - Danish Philosopher
MYFest
Quote Investigator Entry: Einstein quote
Question Jam
Centering Centers: How to Help New Faculty Get Started with SoTL Projects
Lilly Conferences
Episode 443 with David Clark: Arbitrary Limits in Our Classes
Artificial Scarcity: Reflecting on Arbitrary Limits in Our Classes
Teaching in Higher Ed Episodes Taxonomy
Subscribe to Bill Dogterom’s MiniBlog
TripIt
7/6/2023 • 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: A Student-Professor Dialog
Lance Eaton + Stead Fast have a dialog about their perspectives on artificial intelligence on episode 472 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Over time we feel like we are settled as educators and then it’s like nope, just kidding.
-Lance Eaton
Resources
The College Essay is Dead, by Stephen Marche for The Atlantic
New York City Public Schools Drop Ban on AI
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
HAL 9000 in the movie A Space Odyssey
Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay
The Alignment Problem, by Brian Christian
Professor Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
6/29/2023 • 42 minutes, 38 seconds
Equity and Social Justice in STEM Education
Tatiane Russo-Tait shares about equity and social justice in STEM education on episode 471 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
My dad told me that I needed to get my education and that education is the only path to liberation for folks like us.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I almost dropped out.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I was thinking about teaching so that I could be a role model and disrupt classroom spaces to be more welcoming and supportive.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
Resources
The ACCESS Lab
Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
Kimberly Tanner, San Francisco State University
Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University
Daniel Morales-Doyle
6/22/2023 • 35 minutes, 59 seconds
Building Community in the College Classroom
Rob Eaton and Bonnie Moon share about building community in the college classroom on episode 470 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The better I understand students back stories, the more empathy and compassion I have for them.
-Rob Eaton
Resources
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, by Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
The Influence of Teaching: Beyond Standardized Test Scores - Engagement, Mindset, and Agency; by Ronald F. Ferguson, et al
BYU-Idaho’s THRIVE program
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
6/15/2023 • 43 minutes, 45 seconds
Designing Courses in an Age of AI
Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Student’s natural world is the technological world.
-Maria Andersen
Students have a lot of questions about how society has changed.
-Maria Andersen
All of the things we have today came about because people did something in the past.
-Maria Andersen
With generative AI, we have an incredible acceleration of change happening.
-Maria Andersen
Resources
Maria’s website
Paul Fairie (historian who posts on Twitter threads about arguments we keep on making, as expressed in old newspaper clippings)
A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore, curated by Paul Fairie
A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers, curated by Paul Fairie
The Montreal Protocol
Practical Engineering
Wendover Productions
Real Engineering
Example of a True/False exercise Maria developed
YouTube Summary with ChatGPT (Chrome extension)
Kahoot
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
6/8/2023 • 44 minutes, 41 seconds
Scholarly Podcasting
Ian Cook helps Bonni celebrate 9 years of podcasting and his new book, Scholarly Podcasting, on episode 468 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What is your purpose?
-Ian Cook
Resources
Richard Berry, podcast scholar
Dolly Parton on the More Perfect podcast
The Most Perfect Album (songs about the U.S. Constitutional Amendments)
“The Most Perfect Album” review; The Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts
Michael Bossetta | Social Media and Politics
Vincent Racaniello | This Week in Virology
Maria Sachiko |Cecire In Theory
Kent Davies Preserves podcast and podcast instructor
Stephanie Caligiuri, The People’s Scientist
Neil Fox The Cinematologists
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
6/1/2023 • 48 minutes, 45 seconds
A Pedagogy of Kindness
Cate Denial shares about her book A Pedagogy of Kindness on episode 467 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I need to be a partner with my students in this learning process.
-Cate Denial
I walk into class prepared for collaboration and discovery with my students.
-Cate Denial
Resources
Care in the Academy
Remi Kalir
Jesse Stommel
Sean Michael Morris
Chris Friend
Eyes on the Prize
Ungrading
Cathy Davidson
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
5/25/2023 • 44 minutes, 39 seconds
How Learning Works
Marie Norman and Mike Bridges share about the 2nd edition of How Learning Works on episode 466 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Our student-centered approach to teaching requires us to teach the whole student, not just content.
-Mike Bridges
Resources
How Learning Works: Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, by Marie K Norman, Susan A Ambrose, Michele Dipietro, Marsha C. Lovett, Michael W. Bridges
Innovative Design for Education and Assessment (IDEA) Lab
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
5/18/2023 • 42 minutes, 42 seconds
Mind Over Monsters
Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about her book Mind Over Monsters on episode 465 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is a real difficult challenge walking through this world full of monsters when our own bodies and minds can be monstrous.
-Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Compassion comes first.
-Sarah Rose Cavanagh
I love setting goals with students in class.
-Sarah Rose Cavanagh
If you set goals that are not difficult enough, motivation dries up.
-Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Resources
Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, by Sara Rose Cavanagh
Ryan Glode, LMHC
The 12 Week Plan for Building Courses, by Robert Talbert
Kelly Leonard at Second City
Revisiting Mutualism: Loving Me, Loving You, by Karen Costa
Maha Bali
5/11/2023 • 40 minutes, 36 seconds
The Transformative Power of Transversal Skills
Ciarán Dunne shares about the transformative power of transversal skills on episode 464 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When students come back to campus, what are we offering them that they can’t get otherwise?
-Ciarán Dunne
How can we help students thrive in an unscripted world?
-Ciarán Dunne
Transversal skills are skills all students should have regardless of what program they are in.
-Ciarán Dunne
Resources
Dublin City University Futures
Dr. Ciarán Dunne
'Credne' podcast
“…your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.” - Marianne Williamson
Ikigai
Self-compassion - Dr. Kristin Neff
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
5/4/2023 • 44 minutes, 13 seconds
Ethics and Educational Technology
Stephanie Moore + Heather Tillberg-Webb talk about their book, Ethics and Educational Technology, on episode 463 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learning is change.
-Heather Tillberg-Webb
Resources
Ethics and Educational Technology Reflection, Interrogation, and Design as a Framework for Practice, by Stephanie L. Moore and Heather K. Tillberg-Webb
Imagination quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ely’s quote is included in this EDUCAUSE article, co-authored by Stephanie Moore and others.
CAST UDL
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
4/27/2023 • 39 minutes, 38 seconds
Teaching Lessons I Learned From Mom
Bonni shares teaching lessons she learned from mom (Jan Frazee) on episode 462 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When having hard conversations, they are not going to be perfect.
-Jan Frazee
Getting sad during hard conversations just means you’re an actual person who exists.
-Jan Frazee
The parts of reading that are valuable to you will stick with you.
-Jan Frazee
Resources
Teaching Lessons I Learned from Mom, by Bonni Stachowiak for EdSurge
Dr. Frank Leon Robert’s tweet about his office hours and books he gives away to students who visit
Dr. Frank Leon Robert’s Amazon wish list for his office
Twitter thread re Aunt Judy’s death
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
4/20/2023 • 30 minutes, 46 seconds
How to Not Fight AI and Lose
Dara Ryder talks about how not to try to fight against AI (and lose) on episode 461 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am no expert, just a very interested observer.
-Dara Ryder
There is a lot of overlap in the conversations around AI and those around inclusion.
-Dara Ryder
We need to be realistic about where we are as educators.
-Dara Ryder
We must plan our pedagogy for the real world and I think AI can really help guide our students.
-Dara Ryder
Resources
AI is Here. If We Fight It, We’ll Lose - and So Will Our Students, by Dara Ryder
IBM Deep Blue (Chess Computer)
Satellite Navigation (Sat Nav)
Microsoft Editor
ChatGPT
Universal Design for Learning
DALLE
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
4/13/2023 • 36 minutes, 12 seconds
Well Being and Social Justice
Roxanne Donovan talks about well being and social justice on episode 460 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You have agency even if it is not endless agency.
-Roxanne Donovan
How do you walk the line between giving up your power but not ignore the systemic and institutional forces that can make it hard for us to live the way that we want to.
-Roxanne Donovan
Resources
Roxanne Donavan’s website
Providing Unpaid Household and Care Work in the United States: Uncovering Inequality, by Cynthia Hess, Ph.D., Tanima Ahmed, M.Phil, and Jeff Hayes, Ph.D.
First quote from Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy
Second quote from Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
4/6/2023 • 42 minutes, 6 seconds
Engaging Students Through collaborative Research Projects
Engaging Students Through collaborative Research Projects, with Rebecca Glazier and Matthew Pietryka.
Quotes from the episode
We should use technology to our advantage as much as we can.
-Rebecca Glazier
Resources
Learning through Collaborative Data Projects: Engaging Students and Building Rapport, by Matthew T. Pietryka and Rebecca A. Glazier
In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns, John G. Geer
Connecting in the Online Classroom, by Rebecca Glazier
R Script
SIFT (The Four Moves) - Mike Caulfield
AdFontes Media
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
3/30/2023 • 39 minutes, 55 seconds
How to develop ourselves and others through classroom observations
Rebecca Price shares how to develop ourselves and others through classroom observations on episode 458 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Recording classes has been a really big change for me.
-Rebecca Price
Take the performance aspect of classroom observations out so that we can focus on the pedagogy.
-Rebecca Price
Resources
SoTL
Backward Design
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Formative Classroom Observation
COPUS
PORTAAL
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
3/23/2023 • 39 minutes, 41 seconds
Metaphor as Conceptual Anchor
Kerry Mandulak shares about metaphor as conceptual anchor on episode 457 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are more willing to talk about the fact that stuttering is something they are still working through.
-Kerry Mandulak
Resources
Lilly Conferences
Katie Linder
Holistic Review description
Boyer Model of Scholarship
Emily Blunt Opens Up About Being Bullied for Stuttering
Dr. Joseph Sheehan Discusses His Iceberg Analogy
ASHA’s 9 Areas in Scope of Practice
Jennifer Gonzales’ One-Pager Information on Cult of Pedagogy
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
3/13/2023 • 39 minutes, 7 seconds
Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning
Christina Moore shares about her new book, Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning, on episode 456 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Notice how powerful the small screens we carry can be for learning.
-Christina Moore
We are minds and bodies that are constantly mobile.
-Christina Moore
Think about how we can use phones more intentionally to help engage our students with learning.
-Christina Moore
How do I use phones to really help students?
-Christina Moore
Resources
Mobile-Mindful Teaching and Learning: Harnessing the Technology That Students Use Most, by Christina Moore (use code mobile20 at checkout for 20% off plus free shipping from Stylus Publishing)
The Extended Mind, by Annie Murphy Paul
Small Teaching Online, by Flower Darby
Jeff Hittenberger
Mendez Historic Freedom Trail and Monument
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
3/9/2023 • 38 minutes, 50 seconds
Teaching at Its Best
Todd Zakrajsek on episode 455 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Sometimes you just don’t know where a class is going to go.
-Todd Zakrajsek
There are great advantages to looking at things from different perspectives.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, by Todd Zakrajsek and Linda B Nilson
Lilly Conferences
Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
The Shakespeare Requirement, by Julie Schumacher
'Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.' - Ian MacLaren
The New Science of Learning 3e, by Todd Zakrajsek
Lindy Hop
SaneBox
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
3/2/2023 • 37 minutes, 29 seconds
Mental Health and Well Being
Zainab Okolo shares about mental health and well being in higher education on episode 454 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Mental health has held a stigma within our society for decades.
-Zainab Okolo
Resources
Lumina Foundation
Zainab Okolo
The State of Higher Education 2022 Report
Monsters Inc
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
2/23/2023 • 42 minutes, 36 seconds
Finding Joy and Curiosity in the Questions
Liz Norell shares about finding joy and curiosity in the questions on episode 453 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Get closer to people.
-Liz Norell
When you know someone, it is much harder to demonize them.
-Liz Norell
Get authentically curious about how other people see and experience the world.
-Liz Norell
I change the readings every semester.
-Liz Norell
I put readings on the syllabus that I haven’t read yet so that I can learn with my students.
-Liz Norell
Resources
Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown
Cate Denial - pedagogy of care
What Unites Us, by Dan Rather
Calendly
Josh Eyler
Liquid Syllabus - Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Canva
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
2/16/2023 • 42 minutes, 59 seconds
ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed
Autumm Caines discusses chatGPT and good intentions in higher ed on episode 452 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am fascinated by the intersection between who were are and the environments we inhabit.
-Autumm Caines
The process of writing is thinking.
-Autumm Caines
We want our students to learn how to think through the act of writing.
-Autumm Caines
Resources
Craft App’s AI Assistant
About Is a Liminal Space
ChatGPT and Good Intentions in Higher Ed
In Defense of “Banning” ChatGPT
Prior to (or Instead of) Using ChatGPT with Your Students
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 by Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Smargaret Smitchell
Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We? Ezra Klein Interviews Brian Christian
The Alignment Problem, Brian Christian
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
2/9/2023 • 43 minutes, 6 seconds
Course Trailers Revisited
Rob Parke shares about a course trailer he made for his making smart devices course on episode 451 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students have a lot of opportunity to build really cool things, but there is not always a lot of encouragement or opportunity to think about someone other than themselves that they want to build for.
-Rob Parke
I market my class every semester.
-Rob Parke
Video is a great medium of communication.
-Rob Parke
I am trying to convey to students who I am and what they can do in my class.
-Rob Parke
How are students going to benefit from your class?
-Rob Parke
Resources
Course Trailer: Making Smart Devices - Introduction to Wearable Devices
Smart Devices course site
Creating Accessible Open Educational Resources, by Rob Parke
Making Smart Devices, OER by Rob Parke
Peace to the People (Jackie Parke’s video course)
GitHub
Markdown
Arduino
Derek Bruff on Episode 277: Intentional Tech
A Time for Telling, Schwartz and Bransford
SparkFun
Episode 38 with Steve Wheeler: Learning with ‘E’s (when he spoke about banana pies and other devices)
Still | Late Migrations - A Natural History of Love and Loss, by Margaret Renkl
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
2/2/2023 • 45 minutes, 21 seconds
How to Not Be Perfect in Teaching and Learning
Rebecca Price shares how to not be perfect in teaching and learning on episode 450 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When is it ok to say I made a mistake?
-Rebecca Price
I embrace mistakes.
-Rebecca Price
Perfection does not mean learning.
-Rebecca Price
Resources
Lucy (Australopithecus)
Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk with Anderson Cooper
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind, by Patricia K Kuhl, Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff*
The paleobiology database
Becca's Science Methods and Practice Course Syllabus
Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty time, by Linda Nilson
Episode 443 with David Clark: Arbitrary Limits (including due dates)
A Time for Telling, Schwartz and Bransford
Classroom sound can be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses, Melinda T. Owens, Shannon B. Seidel, Mike Wong, and Kimberly D. Tanner
TextExpander’s public groups - with ready-made snippets you can add to your collection and use
TextExpander Physics-Greek Symbols snippets
1/26/2023 • 43 minutes, 2 seconds
Teaching Writing in an Age of AI
John Warner shares how to teach writing in an age of AI on episode 449 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
As a tool, it is most useful in the hands of people who already have the skills and knowledge to write well.
-John Warner
Writing is thinking.
-John Warner
When we write, we are both expressing and exploring an idea.
-John Warner
Resources
Why They Can’t Write, by John Warner
The Writer’s Practice, by John Warner
Freaking Out About ChatGPT (Part I), by John Warner for Inside Higher Ed
ChatGTP
Craft app
Tessie McMillan Cottom’s newsletter for New York Times subscribers
Clippy (Microsoft Office Assistant)
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
1/19/2023 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds
How Artificial Intelligence is Impacting Higher Education
Cynthia Alby discusses how artificial intelligence (like ChatGPT) is impacting higher education on episode 448 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If AI can do it well, it is possible that we could hand things over to AI that would allow us to do other things that we wouldn’t have had time to do.
-Cynthia Alby
When students are doing work that matters to them, they don’t turn to AI for anything other than a little help.
-Cynthia Alby
How can we ask students to do things that are worth doing?
-Cynthia Alby
Resources
Learning That Matters Book Resources Page
Marguerite Koepke
Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 215
This I Believe Essays
ChatGPT: Understanding the New Landscape and Short-Term Solutions
The Nail in the Coffin: How AI Could Be the Impetus to Reimagine Education
I Interview ChatGPT
Craft.do
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
1/12/2023 • 43 minutes, 11 seconds
Reflections on a New Year
Bonni Stachowiak shares some reflections on a new year on episode 447 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to be rooted in our values when teaching.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Remember to have fun and keep a sense of curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Meyer lemon
Maha Bali
Awareness & Action in Intentionally Equitable Hospitality
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series for facilitators/teachers
Kelly Corrigan Wonders Podcast
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler Podcast
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
1/5/2023 • 12 minutes, 51 seconds
How to Create an Author/Speaker Media Kit
Dave Stachowiak on episode 446 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Start small so that you start somewhere.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Check that the language that you are using aligns with your authentic self.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Naomi Kasa’s website
Tom Tobin
What does aspect ratio mean?
Color theory design from Hubspot
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
12/29/2022 • 33 minutes, 58 seconds
Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) Reboot
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni share an update on our PKM systems on episode 445 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am using Twitter with more intentionality than I have in the past.
-Dave Stachowiak
Think about where you are sourcing information from.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources
Harold Jarche PKM
Inoreader
Raindrop.io
Loom - Education
Substack
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
12/22/2022 • 36 minutes, 15 seconds
Growing a Positive Learning Community
Todd Zakrajsek talks about how to grow a positive learning community on episode 444 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Community is what drives learning.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Students are not going to learn if they don’t believe they can learn.
-Todd Zakrajsek
My job is to help students be the best possible learners they can be.
-Todd Zakrajsek
It is important to know that everyone you meet can be fighting something at any given moment.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Tracie Addy’s (and colleagues) Who’s in class survey
Tuckman’s stages of team development
Teaching Within the Rhythms of the Semester, by Donna Killian Duffy and Janet Wright Jones
'Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.' - Ian MacLaren
The New Science of Learning 3e, by Todd Zakrajsek
Zotero
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
12/15/2022 • 45 minutes, 16 seconds
Arbitrary limits in our classes
David Clark discusses arbitrary limits in our classes on episode 443 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am not deadline free, but I have gone to total flexibility for deadlines.
-David Clark
I am a big believer in structure with flexibility.
-David Clark
I have flexibility within my deadlines.
-David Clark
Humans work well with structure.
-David Clark
Resources
David’s website
AnneMarie Perez on Teaching in Higher Ed
Episode 399 satire from McSweeneys
Elicit
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
12/8/2022 • 48 minutes, 47 seconds
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, with Bonnie Moon and Robert Eaton.
Quotes from the episode
Studies show a strong correlation between fixed mindset and depression.
-Robert Eaton
In addition to our students suffering from mental health concerns, some of our professors are also suffering from mental health concerns.
-Bonnie Moon
Resources
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, by Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
The Influence of Teaching: Beyond Standardized Test Scores - Engagement, Mindset, and Agency; by Ronald F. Ferguson, et al
BYU-Idaho’s THRIVE program
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
12/2/2022 • 45 minutes, 8 seconds
How to Create an Authentic Personal Brand
Bonni Stachowiak shares about how to have an authentic personal brand on episode 441 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to reflect on who we really are.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Personal presence is how we show up in the world.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Show up. Go deep. Start small.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Resources page: Authentic Personal Branding
Episode 427 | Learning in Uncertainty with Dave Cormier
Sandie Morgan | Vanguard University
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
11/23/2022 • 28 minutes, 59 seconds
Rethinking Office Hours
Bonni Stachowiak rethinks office hours on episode 440 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We should bring an emphasis on transparency into office hours.
-Bonni Stachowiak
We should be clear with students about the purpose of office hours.
-Bonni Stachowiak
What can you authentically do to be more welcoming in your office hours?
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Office Hours EdSurge Column, by Bonni Stachowiak
Dr. Booth; Chapman University
TILT Higher Ed
Dr. Viji Sathy’s office hours
Dr. Roger Heuser, Vanguard University
Dr. Jiang, San Francisco State University
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
11/17/2022 • 21 minutes, 41 seconds
Education for Love and Wisdom
Jeff Hittenberger reflects on education for love and wisdom on episode 439 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Education without love is an education that does not focus on the learner.
-Jeff Hittenberger
Education without love causes students to feel a lack of value.
-Jeff Hittenberger
Your influence as a teacher is going to be most profound based on who you are as a person.
-Jeff Hittenberger
It is who we are and who we are becoming as people that will have the greatest impact on our students.
-Jeff Hittenberger
Resources
The Path, by Laurie Beth Jones
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year, by Anne Lamott
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beloved Community
Education for Love and Wisdom Podcast
Show page: Education for Love and Wisdom
Episode 1: Love and Wisdom in the Time of COVID
Episode 2: Overcoming Fear and Anger with Love and Wisdom
Episode 3: L-O-V-E – Learning Opportunities Valuing Everyone
The Deeper Learning Podcast: Ep. 01 | Mendez v. Westminster
The Deeper Learning Podcast: Ep. 02 | Aki’s (Munemitsu) Story - Relocation and Resilience
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
11/10/2022 • 35 minutes, 17 seconds
Learning Out Loud
Karen Caldwell talks about learning out loud on episode 438 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Our brains are literally switched on when we are curious.
-Karen Caldwell
I adore the word curiosity.
-Karen Caldwell
It is important to be vulnerable and admit you don’t know something.
-Karen Caldwell
Go ahead and have your students predict. It is the state of curiosity and wonder that really matters.
-Karen Caldwell
Resources
Karen’s TEDx Talk, Learning out Loud
Make it Stick
Juliana Paré-Blagoev
Eric Mazure
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom, Louis Deslauriers, Logan S. McCarty, Kelly Miller, Kristina Callaghan, Kristina Callaghan, and Greg Kestin
How Humans Learn : The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
Pooja Agarwal
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
11/3/2022 • 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Reviving Our Own Curiosity
Lindsey Kealey shares ways we can revive our own curiousity on episode 437 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Curiosity is learning-focused.
-Lindsey Kealey
Resources
Dr. Lauris Santos shares how to make our work more fulfilling
Dr. Daniel Siegel
The PAWsitive Choices podcast
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10/27/2022 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
Beauty and the Liberal Arts
Margarita Mooney Suarez shares about beauty and the liberal arts on episode 436 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What you’re doing is so important.
-Margarita Mooney Suarez
Teaching is a great conversation. The classroom should feel like a great conversation.
-Margarita Mooney Suarez
The heart of learning is a deeply personal journey of discovery.
-Margarita Mooney Suarez
Resources
The Wounds of Beauty, by Margarita Mooney Suarez
The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogs on the Liberal Arts, by Margarita Mooney Suarez
Scala Foundation
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
10/20/2022 • 39 minutes, 4 seconds
Disability Inclusion in Higher Education
Katie Bonawitz shares about disability inclusion in higher education on episode 435 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Your students are not going to be able to shine if you put them in a box of who you think they might be.
-Katie Bonawitz
Resources
This American Life: Trends with Benefits
Fullbright Program
Bethel’s BUILD Program
Bethel’s Center for Access and Integration
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
10/13/2022 • 31 minutes, 27 seconds
Leading Lines – A Retrospective
Derek Bruff shares some highlights from the Leading Lines podcast episodes on episode 434 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am not done podcasting.
-Derek Bruff
Resources
International Podcasting Day
Leading Lines podcast
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Leading Lines Podcast, by Derek Bruff
Mike Wesch’s ANTH101
Leading Lines Episode 11: Kathryn Tomasek
Leading Lines Episode 54: Mike Caulfield
Mike Caulfield’s SIFT (the four moves)
Loom
Leading Lines Episode 62: Chris Gilliard
Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 170 with Cathy O’Neil: Author of Weapons of Math Destruction
Leading Lines Episode 90: Betsey Barre and Karen Costa
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10/6/2022 • 40 minutes, 39 seconds
The New College Classroom
Cathy Davidson + Christina Katopodis talk about their new book, The New College Classroom, on episode 433 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Active learning is about structuring class so that students have more autonomy and control of their learning.
-Christina Katopodis
It takes time to unlearn traditional structures that have been ingrained in us.
-Christina Katopodis
Resources
The New College Classroom, by Cathy N. Davidson & Christina Katopodis*
Cathy Davidson Named Senior Adviser on Transformation to CUNY Chancellor
Video: The Backwards Bicycle
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum*
Charles William Eliot
Sarah J. Schendel
Audre Lorde quote about aphids
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
9/29/2022 • 44 minutes, 3 seconds
Top Tools for Learning
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about our top tools for learning votes on episode 432 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Each year, I look forward to reviewing the results of Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning and to submitting my votes for a personal Top Tools for Learning list.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning
Mike Taylor’s 2022 Top Tools for Learning votes.
Zoom
speaking engagements
How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary and a sample summary from an AAEEBL Meetup
Personal knowledge mastery system
Overcast received a major design overhaul in March of 2022
Unread
Inoreader
Mela
Twitter - tv/movie recommendations, or learning from those in the disability community
Raindrop- How Bonni uses Raindrop - Dave’s shared Raindrop.io digital bookmarks
Hypothes.is
PollEverywhere
Karen E. Caldwell's Learning Out Loud TEDx Talk
Karen E. Caldwell's Learning Out Loud Workshop
Padlet
Loom - verify your Loom account as an educator
Canva
WordPress
Naomi Kasa - the page she created with all my upcoming and past speaking engagements - my resources page for a recent speaking engagement
Blubrry
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9/22/2022 • 38 minutes, 29 seconds
Community and Joy: Lessons from MYFest
Maha Bali, Mia Zamora, and Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh share lessong about community and joy from MYFest on episode 431 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What educators need most right now is to come together as a community and learn in ways that are different than we ever have before.
-Maha Bali
If we don’t take the time to process and reflect upon the things that have happened to us we lose them.
-Mia Zamora
Resources
Online Does Not Mean Isolated, by Maha Bali, George Station, and Mia Zamora for Inside Higher Ed
MYFest 2022 via Equity Unbound
FOMO
Padlet
Jamboard
Karen Costa
Ungrading track
Digital literacies pathway
Daily Create
Equity Unbound
Community building resources
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
9/15/2022 • 44 minutes, 5 seconds
How to grade creative assignments
Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas for how to grade creative assignments on episode 430 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Alternative assignments can often be messy, but the rewards for students and teachers can be transformative.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
How Do You Grade A Creative Assignment, by Bonni Stachowiak for EdSurge
Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do with Ken Bain
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
Tweet thread from Corinne Gressang, assistant professor of history at Erskine College about her Holocaust course
Episode 401: The Problem with Grades, by Josh Eyler
You Don’t Have to Wait for the Clock to Strike to Start Teaching, by Peter Newbury
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
AAC&U VALUE initiative and rubrics
Harvard’s Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Project
CAST’s UDL Action and Expression Guidelines
Harvard’s Alternative Assignments: Creative and Digital Resource
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9/8/2022 • 19 minutes
Who’s Counting
John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 429 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We do speak in probabilities our whole lives. Most of us speak it badly, but we do speak it.
-John Allen Paulos
Resources
Who's Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More, by John Allen Paulos
Mathematics cartoon
Pun
Bayes theorem
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9/1/2022 • 28 minutes, 21 seconds
Back to School
Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas and inspiration for the start of the academic year on episode 428 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If we don't start small, we can become stuck wherever we are.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang
Small Teaching flashcards on Quizlet
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes of Class, by James Lang
Who’s in Class? Form: A Tool for Fostering Inclusion - Tracie Addy
Episode 101: Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf from Chico State
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
8/25/2022 • 16 minutes, 52 seconds
Learning in Uncertainty
Dave Cormier talks about his work in helping students learn in uncertainty on episode 427 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is not about it being right or wrong, it’s about looking at the implications.
-Dave Cormier
We aren’t trying to solve the problem, we are trying to understand the issues we have a little bit deeper.
-Dave Cormier
Find ways to make small, productive change.
-Dave Cormier
We are not solving the problem, we are making it a little better where we can.
-Dave Cormier
Resources
Future Challenges Initiative
SSHRC Future Challenges
Futures Activity - ebook written by University of Windsor’s coop students
Saltaire
Expert Chess Memory: Revisiting the Chunking Hypothesis, by Gobet and Simon
Future of Education Speaker Series Episode 1 - Students Thinking About Future Skills
Teaching for Uncertainty vs Teaching the Basics
Billion Oyster Project
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
8/18/2022 • 39 minutes, 57 seconds
Inclusive Teaching Visualization and Observation
Tracie Addy talks about the inclusive teaching visualization project and classroom observation protocols on episode 426 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Try not to focus on the observer. Teach like you normally would if they were not there.
-Tracie Addy
Resources
Inclusive Teaching Visualization Project
What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah A. Mitchell
Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning open teaching days
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
8/11/2022 • 40 minutes, 18 seconds
Inclusive Teaching
Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan talk about their new book: Inclusive Teaching - Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom on episode 425 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Is there something I can do to invite more students in?
-Kelly Hogan
An inclusive classroom is really intentional in both course design and the in-class environment.
-Kelly Hogan
We hold ourselves back in checking boxes.
-Viji Sathy
How do we help ALL the learners, however they come to us?
-Viji Sathy
How do we design an experience that actually helps students meet their goals?
-Viji Sathy
Our work in inclusive teaching is a journey; there is no final destination.
-Viji Sathy
Inclusive teaching will keep on evolving because people keep evolving, students keep evolving, and topics keep evolving.
-Viji Sathy
We don’t want to leave it to chance that things will go well.
-Kelly Hogan
Resources
Inclusive Teaching by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
Understanding by Design, by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
8/4/2022 • 49 minutes, 13 seconds
Severance
Rob Parke and Michael Boyce explore with me what the tv show Severance would look like if it took place in higher ed (spoilers at very end - we warn you when to hop off)) on episode 424 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think there is a culture of “I’m going hard for 9 months with very little boundaries and then I am off for the summer.”
-Rob Parke
Setting boundaries in my syllabus is me setting up expectations for work-life balance.
-Michael Boyce
I think a lot of push on student-centered teaching almost encourages bad boundaries.
-Michael Boyce
Many of us in our institutions don’t deal with grief well.
-Rob Parke
Resources
Wikipedia: Severance
IMDB: Severance
Episode 301 with Andrew (Andy) Stenhouse (about Positive Work-Life Spillover)
Episode 394 with Tracie Addy (she talked about The Who’s in Class survey)
Episode 419 with Julia Charles-Linen (she recommended Octavia Butler’s books)
Episode 126 with Jackie and Rob Parke about empathy toward greater inclusion
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”
7/28/2022 • 42 minutes, 25 seconds
A Classroom Observation Story
Bonni Stachowiak talks about an opportunity to observe a friend’s hybrid class on episode 423 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learners are ready to hear deeper explanations, once we have ignited their curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak
We should be constantly making invitations for students to come back and focus.
-Bonni Stachowiak
How can we get students to help us get some feedback?
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Episode 208 with Bonni Stachowiak
Peer Review of Teaching - Episode 131 with Isabeau Iqbal
ESCALA Educational Services
Formative Peer Review of Teaching Resources
Isabeau Iqbal’s Publications on Peer Review of Teaching and Dissertation
On Being Observed by David Gooblar
Zoom Meetings
Zoom Rooms
COPUS - Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM
TOPSE - Timed Observational Protocol for Student Engagement and Equity via ESCALA Educational Services
To Umm or Not to Umm: That is the Question, by Alan Levine
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang
Derek Bruff on Episode 277 - Intentional Tech
Bruce Almighty
Build A Bear
Stephen Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire
Gardner Campbell’s APGAR for Class Meetings
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do about It, by James M. Lang
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
7/21/2022 • 30 minutes, 55 seconds
The New Science of Learning
Todd Zakrajsek shares about the 3rd edition of The New Science of Learning on episode 422 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Let people struggle a little bit.
-Todd Zakrajsek
If you don't teach students how to do well in groups, they don't tend to get better at it.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain, by Todd Zakrajsek
Albert Bandura
Zone of Proximal Development
Cognitive load
Robert Bjork on Episode 72 of Teaching in Higher Ed
Desirable difficulties - Robert Bjork
Mathematics for Human Flourishing, by Francis Su
Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”
7/14/2022 • 43 minutes, 27 seconds
Intentional Calendaring
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about intentional calendaring on episode 421 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A calendar can be really helpful because you’ve done some planning in advance to see what is most important for you to do and how much time that is likely to take.
-Dave Stachowiak
When you have a calendar you’re not making decisions every single hour of every single work day about where you are going to put your energy next. This causes a lot of decision fatigue.
-Dave Stachowiak
A calendar is all about intention, about making decisions about what is most important.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
The Productive Online and Offline Professor, by Bonni Stachowiak
Combined List of Productivity Tools from The Productive Online and Offline Professor
Translating Intentions into Action, Episode 387 with Dave Stachowiak
Zoom
Fuel Efficient Mentoring Episode 367 with Adaira Landry and Resa Lewiss
Sandie Morgan
Episode 168 with Teddy Svoronos
AcuityScheduling
Fantastical
CardHop
Doodle
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7/7/2022 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
Saving Time with a References Manager
Dana Wanzer on saving time with Zotero on episode 420 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Most of us do not need to be doing more at this time.
-Dana Wanzer
It doesn’t have to be something that just helps you, it can also help others.
-Dana Wanzer
Resources
Zotero
Zotero Connector
Proxy server
RStudio
ZotFile
UC Irvine Anteaters
Apparently, Bonni was wrong in the episode and anteaters do indeed make the ZOT sound when attacking their prey
scite Zotero plugin
Mobile apps
Robert Talbert
Robert Talbert on Teaching in Higher Ed episodes
Learn Zotero course
6/30/2022 • 46 minutes, 34 seconds
Disrupting the Syllabus
Julia Charles talks about disrupting the syllabus on episode 419 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Disrupting suggests that there is something that necessitates change over time.
-Julia Charles
I am disrupting an ideology, a way of thinking, about this document.
-Julia Charles
I view the syllabus as a tool for engagement.
-Julia Charles
When the syllabus is a document that you can be excited about, students become more creative in the class.
-Julia Charles
I’ve learned to ask for help and reach outside of myself.
-Julia Charles
Resources
That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing - by Julia S. Charles
The Loving Luggage Project
Beloit College
What is it we are trying to disrupt?
Julia’s tweet with her syllabus
The Source Magazine
XXL Magazine
Help celebrate Julia’s 40th birthday by “getting 40 new suitcases for youth currently in or aging out of foster care - any amount helps”
6/23/2022 • 38 minutes, 57 seconds
The Self and Syllabus
Christopher Richmann talks about the self and syllabus project on episode 418 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is growing interest in the issue of the self that we bring into the classroom.
-Christopher Richmann
We are embedded selves and we bring ourselves and all of the artifacts that go along with our teaching into the classroom and into the task of teaching.
-Christopher Richmann
Am I coming across on my syllabus? Do students meet me in my syllabus?
-Christopher Richmann
Not all knowledge can be assessed or expressed in the same way.
-Christopher Richmann
Resources
The Self and Syllabus
Richmann, Christopher; Kurinec, Courtney; and Millsap, Matthew (2020) "Syllabus Language, Teaching Style, and Instructor Self-Perception: Toward Congruence," International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 14: No. 2, Article 4.
Joshua Been, Assistant Librarian and Director of Data and Digital Scholarship
Grasha-Riechmann Teaching-Styles Inventory
Death to the Syllabus! Mano Singham
Dunning-Kruger effect
The Promising Syllabus, by James Lang for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ken Bain
Jessamyn Neuhaus
Professors Talk Pedagogy Podcast
6/16/2022 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
Liberated Learners
Terry Greene talks about the liberated learners project on episode 417 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You can learn with style.
-Terry Greene
If you can advocate for yourself and others, then you can collaborate, network, and build connections.
-Terry Greene
There are a lot of steps a person can take towards being someone who works well with others.
-Terry Greene
This is for learners, by learners. It is co-designed with students.
-Terry Greene
Working with others can be scary, but it is so rewarding in the end.
-Terry Greene
Resources
Liberated Learners: How to Learn with Style
Video: What The Heck is The Liberated Learner?
Liberated Learners: Acknowledgements
Terry’s blog post about the Liberated Learners Beats to Study to
H5P
Pressbooks
Liberated Learners: Take Out Menu
Seneca College’s Independent Music Production
Seneca College’s Independent Songwriting & Performance
6/9/2022 • 43 minutes, 26 seconds
How to Engage on Social Media
VaNessa Thompson shares how to engage on social media on episode 416 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Online spaces are not going away.
-VaNessa Thompson
Resources Mentioned
Episode 312 with David White: Digital Visitors and Residents
VaNessa on TikTok
TikTok: Talking in TikTok language in real life
The Good and the Bad: 4 Students Share How Social Media Has Impacted Their Mental Health
TikTok: Wikipedia is a great place to start
CapCut
Notion
6/2/2022 • 43 minutes, 37 seconds
How to Say Goodbye
How to Say Goodbye, with Warren Doody.
Quotes from the episode
Saying goodbye and letting go through some type of ritual is important.
-Warren Doody
Resources Mentioned
Warren Doody’s website
Sylvia Kane on Episode 241 on Inclusive Pedagogy
The Importance of Saying Goodbye to Your Students in Times of Uncertainty, Faculty Focus
Episode 301 with Andy Stenhouse: Positive work-life spillover
Angels in Disguise
5/26/2022 • 34 minutes, 7 seconds
Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments
Shaina Rowell on episode 414 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We can all help to create an environment where students can flourish, where their well-being and learning is important.
-Shaina Rowell
Growth mindset helps students think about how to grow in a healthy and effective way.
-Shaina Rowell
Celebrating little successes are really important.
-Shaina Rowell
Resources Mentioned
Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments
Social Connection
Compassion and Stress Reduction
Belonging and Growth Mindset
Gratitude and Purpose
Supporting Students in Distress
Sandra “Sandie” Morgan
How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler
5/19/2022 • 34 minutes, 28 seconds
How Mattering Matters
Heidi Weston and Peter Felten discuss how mattering matters on episode 413 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Belonging is tied to a lot of things that we value and that students value.
-Peter Felten
Mattering is not about if you fit or not, it is about being valued.
-Peter Felten
Different students trust faculty differently than others.
-Peter Felten
Resources Mentioned
Asher, S. R., & Weeks, M. S. (2013). Loneliness and belongingness in the college years
Cole, D., Newman, C. B., & Hypolite, L. I. (2020). Sense of belonging and mattering among two cohorts of first-year students participating in a comprehensive college transition program
Cook-Sather, Alison; Allard, Samantha; Marcovici, Elena; and Reynolds, Bill (2021) Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
Elliott, Gregory, Suzanne Kao, and Ann-Marie Grant. Mattering: Empirical validation of a social-psychological concept
Flett, G., Khan, A., & Su, C. (2019). Mattering and psychological well-being in college and university students: Review and recommendations for campus-based initiatives
Gravett, K., & Ajjawi, R. (2021). Belonging as situated practice. Studies in Higher Education
Meehan, C., & Howells, K. (2019). In search of the feeling of ‘belonging’in higher education: undergraduate students transition into higher education
Reeve, J. (2013). How students create motivationally supportive learning environments for themselves: The concept of agentic engagement
Reeve, J., & Shin, S. H. (2020). How teachers can support students’ agentic engagement
Reeve, J., & Tseng, C. M. (2011). Agency as a fourth aspect of students’ engagement during learning activities
Schlossberg, N. K. (1989). Marginality and mattering: Key issues in building community
Strayhorn, T.L. (2012). Exploring the Impact of Facebook and Myspace Use on First-Year Students' Sense of Belonging and Persistence Decisions
Erin Whitteck (taking improv classes)
5/12/2022 • 41 minutes, 7 seconds
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook, and Prem Kumar Rajaram discuss opening up the university: Teaching and Learning with Refugees on episode 412 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
Think about the ways in which language is used socially and politically as a means of exclusion and marginalization.
-Prem Kumar Rajaram
Resources Mentioned
Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Central European University’s Open Learning Initiative (OLIve)
5/5/2022 • 39 minutes, 32 seconds
Copyright for the Rest of Us
Thomas Tobin shares about copyright for the rest of us on episode 411 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Just because you are an academic and you made a copy doesn’t mean it is for an academic purpose.
-Thomas Tobin
We hear more about what you can’t do, rather than what you can [when making copies of materials].
-Thomas Tobin
[As a layperson, I can tell you that] the law is the last resort. The law only applies when there is no other permission or license in place.
-Thomas Tobin
Resources Mentioned
Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices (2015)
The Copyright Ninja (2017)
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (2018)
Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers (2020)
UDL for FET Practitioners: Guidance for Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Irish Further Education and Training (2021)
Plagiarism is Not a Crime, by Brian L. Frye
Brian L. Frye on Plagiarism Norms
MSCHF’s next project won’t wait for Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain | The Verge
Creative Commons
Cable Green
Freestyle Komics
4/28/2022 • 49 minutes, 21 seconds
Rethinking Critical Thinking
Mays Imad shares how she (and others) is rethinking cricital thinking on episode 410 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was so important for me to make my own decisions and come to my own conclusions.
-Mays Imad
Thinking has an affective component.
-Mays Imad
Our rational thinking can be hijacked when we are under the influence of fear.
-Mays Imad
Resources
What would Socrates think? by Mays Imad
Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice by Maureen Linker
Five Essential Ways of Knowing, by Ben Harley and Mays Imad for Inside Higher Ed
Rumi quote: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Susannah McGowan
Sam Wineburg
4/21/2022 • 32 minutes, 26 seconds
We’re Not Ok
Antija Allen and Justin Stewart talk about their book, We’re Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies, on episode 409 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Your voice is important. Your individuality is important. Your presence is important.
-Justin Stewart
We’re not ok but we’re not always comfortable telling people we’re not ok.
-Antija Allen
I don’t want my students to be shocked that I am black and that I am teaching them.
-Antija Allen
A lot of people don’t know what we are going through as black faculty because we are so resilient.
-Antija Allen
Resources Mentioned
We're Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies, Editors: Antija M. Allen & Justin T. Stewart
4/14/2022 • 45 minutes, 25 seconds
Unraveling Faculty Burnout
Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
There is a stigma of talking about burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Perfection is a comparison disease.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Higher ed will take as much as you give it.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Resources
Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Beating Pandemic Burnout, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
World Health Organization’s definition of burnout
Episode 219 with Rebecca Pope-Ruark on Agile Faculty
4/7/2022 • 31 minutes, 30 seconds
Unpacking Resilience & Grief
Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are grieving and hurting.
-Chinasa Elue
Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.
-Chinasa Elue
Language is power.
-Laura Howard
We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.
-Chinasa Elue
Educational developers are caregivers.
-Este Jordan
The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.
-Chinasa Elue
People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.
-Chinasa Elue
We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.
-Chinasa Elue
It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.
-Chinasa Elue
Resources
Unpacking Resilience & Grief Workbook
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About ‘Care’ by Dr. Hannah McGregor
Hannah McGregor’s website
Kinnesaw State University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
3/31/2022 • 44 minutes, 21 seconds
How to create flexibility for students and ourselves
Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.
-Kevin Kelly
Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.
-Kevin Kelly
We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.
-Kevin Kelly
The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.
-Kevin Kelly
Resources
How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary
AAEEBL Meetup: How can students generate evidence of their learning in a remote world?
Flexible Course Run of Show Template
Startup & shutdown checklists
CSU Flexible Course Delivery
EDUCAUSE: 7 Things You Should Know About Google Jockeying
Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bordain: Preparation, practice, planning
Chat jockeys (volunteer in-person students who monitor the Zoom chat while you lecture)
LaGuardia Community College Student Technology Mentor Program
Google Docs
Lewis Carroll
Maya Angelou quarter
Hypothesis
Classroom Salon
eMargin
tiny.cc
3/24/2022 • 41 minutes, 48 seconds
Open Education as a Way of Being
Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You have to find and develop your personality.
-Alan Levine
I like to model being imperfect.
-Alan Levine
For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.
-Alan Levine
Resources Mentioned
Zencastr
Zoom
MIT - Open Courseware Initiative
How to explain open educational resources to students, in terms of the value of college? - Loïc Plé
Why does he do it and please never stop. - Terry Greene
“How do you guide people into the most appropriate level/literacy for the moment, and get them started? - Joe Murphy
What the SPLOT is that?
Jon Udell
Hamburger Menu on NetNarratives website
Alan Levine’s shower interface photos on Flickr
Remi Kalir
Annotated 13 Ways of Looking at a Sticky Note
Jeffrey W. McClurken
Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Check Starter Course
Bonni’s YouTube playlist: SIFT (Four Moves)
Episode 399: Satire from McSweeney’s
Julie Cadman-Kim replies to a question about if her fantastic article is available in audio form
CogDog’s Pinboard.in digital bookmarks
Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream
Alan’s treat for Bonni on Twitter posted at 2:08 pm on Feb 18, 2022
OEG Voices Podcast
3/17/2022 • 38 minutes, 17 seconds
Annotation is
Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Annotation is all around us.
-Remi Kalir
Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator.
-Remi Kalir
Annotation provides information.
-Remi Kalir
This is an act of public pedagogy.
-Remi Kalir
Resources
Annotation, by Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia
Crowdsourcing Ungrading, by David Buck - produced by the #UNgrading Virtual Book Club
On Grading, Efficiency, and Contingency - Chapter by Mary Klann in Crowdsourcing Ungrading
Remi’s blog post: #Annotation is (#Annotate22 January)
Remi’s blog post: #Annotation on (#Annotate22 February)
Annotation is a grade with criticism. An instructor grading Jacques Derrida.
Annotation is a dedication, a date, a flower. “I give this June day to Ms. Gordon Bottomley the inside of this book. Michael Field June 5, 1908” MD was a pseudonym for authors Gathering Bradley & nice Edith Cooper
Annotation is a threat and criminal. Note by Jacob Chansley written at desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6, 2021
Annotation on the Woolworth’s lunch counter. February 1, 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond & Jibreel Khazan - The Greensboro Four - began sit-in protests
The #marginalsyllabus
Debbie Reese
Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print, by Sandra Stevenson (about Alexandra Bell’s redactions to New York Times headlines)
The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell, by Doreen St. Félix
PubPub platform
The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated
The Declaration of Independence: Annotated
3/10/2022 • 43 minutes, 39 seconds
Demystifying Online Group Projects
Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Get rid of the competition and become a team player.
-Rebecca Hogue
Assume good intentions.
-Rebecca Hogue
Resources
Preparing Online Teams for Success, by Rebecca Hogue
Treehouse Village Ecohousing
Consolidated Recommendations on Teaching in Higher Ed
Demystifying Instructional Design
Miro
Trello
Google Docs
Google Slides
Camtasia
Microsoft Sway
Google Sites
Zoom
3/3/2022 • 36 minutes, 23 seconds
Playful Learning and Virtual Escape Rooms
Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.
-Rachelle O’Brien
Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex.
-Rachelle O’Brien
Resources
PlayThinkLearn
Eduscapes
Episode 397 with Audrey Watters: Teaching Machines
Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
What is a Game, by Bernard Suit
Education Burrito – unwrapping the ‘fun in games’
O’Brien, R, E., & Farrow, S (2020). Escaping the inactive classroom: Escape Rooms for teaching technology. Journal for Social Media in Higher Education.
O’Brien, R, E. (2020). The Great Escape – Escape Rooms for Learning and Teaching. Durham University.
O’Brien, R, E. (2021). Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast. AdvanceHE.
Using games in Teaching
My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)
2/24/2022 • 44 minutes, 41 seconds
The Problem with Grades
Josh Eyler discusses the problem with grades on episode 401 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.
-Josh Eyler
The grades are not the end of the story. They are not even the bulk of your story. They are a chapter of your story.
-Josh Eyler
Resources
Episode 65 with Josh Eyler: Teaching Lessons from Pixar
Episode 231 with Josh Eyler: How Humans Learn
How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler
The New Education, by Cathy Davidson
David Buck on Twitter
Ungrading, an Introduction, by Jesse Stommel
Evergreen State College Evaluation
2/17/2022 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
The Heart of a Teacher
Jeff Hittenberger helps Bonni culminate her 400th episode by talking about the heart of a teacher on episode 400 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I had some assumptions coming into teaching
-Bonni Stachowiak
I never knew how much my textbooks cost.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I care about other people and that I like to make meaningful progress towards a goal, I try to celebrate those parts of me.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I think we are all just continually trying to figure stuff out. Nobody really has it all together.
-Bonni Stachowiak
An episode has aired every single week since June of 2014. That is a kind of discipline I feel grateful for.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak’s podcast)
Episode 230 with Peter Kaufman - Teaching with Compassion
Rachel Held Evans
Podcast page where you can browse by category
Episode 208 - The 208 Backstory (more on Bonni’s journey into teaching)
Katie Linder
2/10/2022 • 47 minutes, 26 seconds
Satire from McSweeney’s
Bonni Stachowiak shares some satire from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on episode 399 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
How We Will Separate You From Any Lingering Hope and Other Important Topics of Today’s Faculty Meeting, by Julie Cadman-Kim: Shared with permission by McSweeney’s and the author Julie Cadman-Kim
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998
Prof Michelle Ryan’s tweet re: tl;dr papers website
Intramolecular interactions play key role in stabilization of pHLIP at acidic conditions, by Nicolas Frazee and Blake Mertz
“Scientists do experiments which are hard to do in real life, but easy to do in a computer. They use a computer program to make the experiment happen inside the computer. Scientists use this process to understand how things work. They use this process to understand how biology works, and how things that we use work.” - the tl/dr version
2/3/2022 • 11 minutes, 32 seconds
Pedagogy of the Depressed
Christopher Schaberg talks about his book, Pedagogy of the Depressed, on episode 398 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Just talking to students once or twice a week is so important.
-Christopher Schaberg
Resources
Satsuma mandarins
Pedagogy of the Depressed
@ass_deans on Twitter
Robin DeRosa’s website
The attention economy, by Jenny O’Dell
The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay
The Hundreds, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart
1/27/2022 • 39 minutes, 44 seconds
Teaching Machines
Audrey Watters shares about her book, Teaching Machines, on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When people try to erase history, they do that to foreclose hope.
-Audrey Watters
If we have a better understanding of the history of educational technology, there is hope.
-Audrey Watters
I do not think that the future is already written.
-Audrey Watters
Resources
Teaching Machines, by Audrey Waters
B. F. Skinner
The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade, by Audrey Watters
Edward Thorndike
Sal Khan
Behaviorism
The Teacher Wars, by Dana Goldstein
Photo of a Teaching Machine from TMI
1/20/2022 • 47 minutes, 39 seconds
Contingency and Pedagogy
Amy Lynch-Biniek discusses the ways in which contingency can impact pedagogy on episode 396 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
To be a teacher in the 21st century, you also have to be a bit of an activist.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek
As teachers we have to find ways to advocate for ourselves, for our students, for our campuses, and for our classrooms.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek
We have to remind ourselves to speak with, not for, others.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek
Begin advocacy by listening.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek
Resources
Sandra (Sandi) M. Leonard
Paula Patch on Twitter
Alex Venet was on Episode 372, talking about Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
Episode 272: Inclusified Teaching Evaluation with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan
Episode 89: The Research on Course Evaluations with Betsy Barre
Twitter Thread: Contingent faculty
Indianapolis Resolution
Conference on College Composition
Ungrading: An FAQ, by Jesse Stommel
Jesse Stommel
PlayForge’s Wooden Dice Spinner for RPGs
1/13/2022 • 34 minutes, 49 seconds
The End of Burnout
Jonathan Malesic shares about his book, The End of Burnout, on episode 395 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The data seems to suggest that around half of workers are somewhere on the burnout spectrum.
-Jonathan Malesic
In our culture we put a lot of expectations on work to fufill us.
-Jonathan Malesic
We need to see work as the support to whatever is at the center of our lives.
-Jonathan Malesic
Resources
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, by Jonathan Malesic
Are We All Really Burning Out: Academic Burnout is Real - But Difficult to Diagnose, by Jonathan Malesic for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Christina Maslach
O.C. Berkley Faculty Page: Christina Maslach
How to Measure Burnout Accurately and Ethically, by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
Paraphrasing Alain de Botton: Writing a book is like telling a joke and then waiting two years to find out if anyone thought it was funny
The Parking Lot movie
Miya Tokumitsu’s book: Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success and Happiness
Ruha Benjamin
Kate Bowler
Fake Buddha Quotes
“You don’t have to like it. That’s why it’s called work” George Malesic 1933-2018
1/6/2022 • 38 minutes, 7 seconds
What Inclusive Instructors Do
Tracie Addy talks about what inclusive instructors do on episode 394 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Inclusive teaching is being responsive to the diversity of our class and designing learning environments that include all of our students.
-Tracie Addy
Inclusive teaching allows students to be engaged in an equitable learning environment and feel a sense of belonging.
-Tracie Addy
We can think about our students in terms of the different strengths they bring to the classroom.
-Tracie Addy
I had a lot of experiences as a black female that had a profound impact on me.
-Tracie Addy
Resources
BOOK: What Inclusive Instructors Do
VIDEO: Tracie Addy on Getting to Know Your Students
BLOG: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Q&A With Tracie Addy
RESOURCE: Tracie Addy’s Who’s In Class? Form
ARTICLE: A Tool to Advance Inclusive Teaching Efforts: The “Who’s in Class?” Form, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Khadijah A. Mitchell, Derek Dube
INFO: Tara J. Yosso on Wikipedia
12/30/2021 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
Aligning Our Values Through Accessibility
Ann Gagnè talks about how to align our values through accessibility on episode 393 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Alt text allows you to put a description of what you are tweeting in terms of the image, gif, or infographics.
-Ann Gagné
On a foundational level alt text is there to help increase information to the most amount of people as possible.
-Ann Gagné
Resources
The Tale of the Starfish
Connor Scott Gardner’s Twitter thread
Alt Text info from Digital Accessibility at Harvard
WebAIM’s Alternative Text article
How to add Alt Text on Twitter from University of Illinois
AltText Reader on Twitter
Nel Noddings
Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, by Nel Noddings
12/23/2021 • 42 minutes, 20 seconds
Identity, Belonging, and Hispanic/Latin American Culture
Norlan Hernández shares about identity, belonging, and Latin American culture on episode 392 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Are we being intentional in thinking about how we are nurturing their sense of identity and belonging?
-Norlan Hernández
Resources
Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective, by Jose J. E. Gracia
A Conversation with Latinos on Race, from The New York Times
Latino, Hispanic, Latinx, Chicano: The History Behind the Terms, by Tara Simón
Kimberly N. Russell, PhD - Beast profiles, as written about in:
The Spark of Learning, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
12/16/2021 • 42 minutes, 9 seconds
Learning That Matters
Caralyn Zehnder, Cynthia Alby, JuliA Metzker, Karynne Kleine talk about their book, Learning That Matters, on episode 391 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I ask myself, what matters to me and why? And am I living that in my teaching?
-JuliA Metzker
Resources Mentioned
Learning That Matters website
Cynthia’s letter to students re: upsides to flipping
Learning That Matters Resources
John Dewey
Hidden Brain: Work 2.0 - The Obstacles You Don’t See
12/9/2021 • 47 minutes, 25 seconds
Music and Academic Growth
joshuah whittinghill discusses his research on the relationships with music, academic, social, and emotional learning on episode 385 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I just jumped in. And it saved my life.
-joshuah whittinghill
It doesn’t seem like a lot of our courses in higher education have a lot of social or emotional curriculum built in to help students on their journey as they are growing.
-joshuah whittinghill
Students aren’t the only people. We also have colleagues.
-joshuah whittinghill
Let’s meet students where they’re at.
-joshuah whittinghill
Resources Mentioned
Chico State University
Rick Rolling
George Michael Freedom
Lowfi music on YouTube
Jackie (Jacquelyn) Macias’ 3 Artifacts (Thank you, Jackie, for letting us hear this part of your story)
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Podcast: First Generation - One of Many
12/2/2021 • 42 minutes, 34 seconds
Feeling Grateful for Podcasts
Bonni Stachowiak shares her gratitude for past podcast conversations on episode 389 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’m feeling grateful for podcasts.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I am feeling even more grateful for this community of people who care about teaching and learning.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
2021 Podcast Favorites
21 Top Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Episodes
EdSurge’s Bootstraps podcast series
Bootstraps - Episode 4: The Tyranny of Letter Grades
How to Use Podcasts in Teaching with Barbi Honeycutt
How to Use a Course Workload Estimator, with Betsy Barre
Small Teaching Reprised, with James Lang
On Improving Our Teaching, with Dan Levy
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, with Alex Shevrin Venet
The Role of Faculty in Student Mental Health, with Sarah Lipson and Laura Horne
Equity-Enhancing Data Tools, with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan
11/24/2021 • 22 minutes, 16 seconds
Fostering a Sense of Belonging
Angel Herring and KaSondra Toney discuss how to foster a sense of belonging on episode 388 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I see everyone as a contributor in the education process. As a student, you have as much of a say as I do as your instructor.
-Angel Herring
Once I started focusing on my education more, I realized that my opportunities were endless.
-KaSondra Toney
Resources
Video excerpt of Dr. Herring
Profile of KaSondra Toney: 2020 Bishop Award Recipient to Graduate from USM After 20-Year Journey
USM’s First Generation Faculty/Staff Network
11/18/2021 • 37 minutes, 35 seconds
Translating Intentions into Action
Dave and Bonni Stachowiak talks about translating intention into action on episode 387 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Be mindful about what things you are trying to hold in your brain.
-Dave Stachowiak
Pick one thing, try it, and see what happens.
-Dave Stachowiak
Resources
The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide, by Bonni Stachowiak
Aikido
Zettelkasten - note-taking method
Extending the Mind – Finite Eyes
James M. Lang
Drafts App
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Gawande, Atul*
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen*
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by, Brian Moran*
Positive Work-Life Spillover episode with Andrew (Andy) Stenhouse
Episode: The Productive Online and Offline Professor
GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
Dealing with academic email, by Robert Talbert
Use checklists to teach more effectively and efficiently
The power of checklists
Checklist for class planning efficiency
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin*
MacSparky: “Don’t be good at email.”
11/11/2021 • 44 minutes, 34 seconds
Tools for Learning (part 2)
I share the second in a two-part series about my participation in the Tools4Learning annual survey on episode 386 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It really helps me to take a step back and reflect on the tools that I value and that I might be able to get more benefit from.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning 2021
Top Tools for Personal Learning
Top Tools for Workplace Learning
Top Tools for Education
Zoom | Education | Web conferencing
Canva | Workplace Learning | Graphic design creator
Blubrry | Workplace Learning | Podcast hosting
Google Jamboard | Education
Loom | Education | Screencasting
11/4/2021 • 16 minutes, 12 seconds
Tools for Learning (part 1)
I share the first in a two-part series about my participation in the Tools4Learning annual survey on episode 385 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Who we follow on social media can help us in our ongoing quest to learn.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
2021 Top Tools for Learning: My Votes
Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning 2021
Top Tools for Personal Learning
Top Tools for Workplace Learning
Top Tools for Education
Raindrop.io | Personal Learning | Digital bookmarking tool
Overcast | Personal Learning | Podcast catcher
Twitter | Personal Learning | Microblogging + social media network
Episode 53 - Peter Newbury explained his method for who to follow on Twitter in that he connects with people who are like him, along with people who are not like him.
Readwise | Personal Learning | Digital reading highlights manager
Inoreader | Personal Learning | RSS feed aggregator
To read my RSS feeds, I prefer to use Unread
10/28/2021 • 15 minutes, 14 seconds
Supporting ADHD Learners
Karen Costa discusses how to support ADHD learners on episode 384 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
UDL is not a magic cure for all of our ills.
-Karen Costa
Individual accommodations can provide more personalized, specific, structured, and robust support.
-Karen Costa
We need to hear the voices of ADHD learners.
-Karen Costa
Resources Mentioned
Russell Barkley
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder 2nd Edition, by Sari Solden*
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
OneFocus App
Landmark College
Dr. Hallowell
ADHD 2.0, by Edward M. Hallowell M.D. & John J. Ratey M.D. (Author)
10/21/2021 • 46 minutes, 1 second
Implicit Bias in Our Teaching
Jennifer Imazeki talks about implicit bias in our teaching on episode 383 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is not about changing the bias or stopping the bias. It is about getting in between your internal reaction and your external reaction.
-Jennifer Imazeki
There is so much going on with our students that we can’t possibly know.
-Jennifer Imazeki
Resources
Dr. Jennifer Imazeki’s Home Page
Econ for Teachers Blog
SDSU Center for Inclusive Excellence
ACUE Implicit Bias video excerpt featuring Jennifer Imazeki
Daniel Kahneman
Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism (NYT Interactive)
Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions Across Academic Disciplines - Science Magazine
10/14/2021 • 42 minutes, 40 seconds
Teaching Change
José Bowen shares about his new book, Teaching Change, on episode 382 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
College students are aware of the fact that they change.
-José Bowen
What are the important questions that our discipline answers?
-José Bowen
Diverse groups do better work and outperform groups of highly competent homogenous groups. They also take longer because they have more conflict because they question assumptions.
-José Bowen
It is a hard position to be the person in the group who questions assumptions.
-José Bowen
We think the opposite of conflict is harmony. The opposite of conflict is apathy.
-José Bowen
Resources
Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), by José Bowen (30% off with Code HTWN)
Stephen Brookfield
Michael Sandel’s Justice Course
Change the question(s)
Teaching Naked
Teaching Half-Naked
10/7/2021 • 43 minutes, 39 seconds
How to Use Podcasts in Teaching
Barbi Honeycutt and Bonni Stachowiak talk about how to use podcasts in teaching on episode 381 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ask yourself, “how does this support my learning outcomes and help my students be successful in this course and beyond?”
-Barbi Honeycutt
Audio is a powerful medium.
-Barbi Honeycutt
Find podcasts that are already out there that integrate with your course learning outcomes, course goals, and course topics and leverage those.
-Barbi Honeycutt
Podcasts are hard work.
-Barbi Honeycutt
Resources
International Podcast Day
How to Level Up Your In-Home Recording Studio
10 Ways You Can Use Podcasts in Your Course to Engage Students (Lecture Breakers blog post)
10 Ways to Use Podcasts to Break Up Your Lecture (Lecture Breakers podcast episode)
Lecture Breakers podcast
A Guide to Academic Podcasting
Additional Podcast Resources from Amplify
Lecture Breakers Podcast
Duke Learning Innovation’s Using Podcasts in Your Classroom
27: The Most Perfect Album
Podcast Episode: 27: The Most Perfect Album
The Rewatchables Podcast
9/30/2021 • 47 minutes, 45 seconds
How to Discuss Race, Racism, and Politics in Education
Marcus Croom shares about How to Discuss Race, Racism, and Politics in Education on episode 380 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is vital to know the difference between concluding a real talk and resolving a public issue. Those are not the same thing.
-Marcus Croom
Educators who take up this challenge will need to listen and learn and unlearn and relearn as human beings in addition to who they may be as professionals.
-Marcus Croom
You are going to listen and learn and process through the real talk along with the participants.
-Marcus Croom
This is not a checklist, but a protocol that sets up the possibilities and conditions for success.
-Marcus Croom
Resources
Has It Already Happened? by Marcus Croom for Indiana University Bloomington’s Center for Innovative Teaching
Real Talk? How to Discuss Race, Racism, and Politics in 21st Century American Schools, by Marcus Croom
Marcus Croom, Indiana University Bloomington
Recommendations
Bonni
Evaluate Your Puppies
Marcus Croom
5th Annual CITL Reading List
NYC EPICENTERS 9/11-2021
Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions
The Dancing Monk by Eric Reed
A Love Supreme, Pt. IV - Psalm (Live) by John Coltrane
Hymn to Freedom by Oscar Peterson
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Nina Simone
Misrepresented People by Stevie Wonder
Religion (feat. Lecrae) by PJ Morton
a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e by J. Cole
Free RealTalk Protocol Template
9/23/2021 • 42 minutes, 54 seconds
Reducing Fear in Learning Contexts
Shawna Rodabaugh and Ian Wolf talk about reducing fear in learning context on episode 379 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You have absolutely no idea what people are capable of until you put them in a situation where they can flourish.
-Shawna Rodabaugh
The true measure of whether I can teach or not is if I can bring it down to the level where someone who has never seen it before will understand it.
-Shawna Rodabaugh
Resources
Center for Faculty Development at Fayetteville Technical Community College
Ian Wolf was on Episode 222
Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play
9/16/2021 • 40 minutes, 12 seconds
Common Ground
Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton talks about the common ground on episode 378 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was the big questions that gripped me.
-Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton
When you give them something interesting that they want to know about, they will do the reading.
-Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton
We need to recognize that the hard questions are usually philosophical at their root.
-Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton
We are all philosophers.
-Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton
Resources
Retrieval Philosophy
Parker Palmer
Michelle D. Miller
Michael Sandel’s Justice Course
Journal of Public Philosophy
Public Philosophy Society
Public Philosophy Press
Incentivizes Note-Taking with Open-Notes Assessments
Video: Open Assessments
9/9/2021 • 42 minutes, 10 seconds
Critical Thinking in Theory and Practice
Lauren Bellaera discusses critical thinking in theory and practice on episode 377 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When you’re teaching students, you have limited time. So all of the time you’re making particular pedagogical choices about where to focus.
-Lauren Bellaera
When teaching, we tend to like to put things in a dichotomy.
-Lauren Bellaera
Critical thinking is a really important life skill.
-Lauren Bellaera
The bridging between research and practice is very important.
-Lauren Bellaera
Resources Mentioned
Making Connections That Matter: Critical Thinking in Theory and Practice by Lauren Bellaera for AAC&U
Critical Thinking in Practice: The Priorities and Practices of Instructors Teaching in Higher Education by Lauren Bellaera for Science Direct
Albert Bandura
Self Efficacy
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Mind Map
The Brilliant Club
Developing Critical Thinking Skills with Tine Reimers | Episode 37
9/2/2021 • 37 minutes, 5 seconds
On Improving Our Teaching
Quotes from the episode
I no longer trust myself to know how much my students are understanding.
-Dan Levy
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Resources Mentioned
Teaching Effectively with Zoom (2e), by Dan Levy
Invisible Learning, by David Franklin
Teachly.me
Info about Dan Levy’s Teaching
Teaching Effectively with Zoom, Second Edition, by Dan Levy
Ezra Klein Podcast (Ezra Klein asks the people he interviews, what’s something you have changed your mind about?)
Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak also asks people what they have changed their minds about)
Episode 23 with Jay Howard on How to Engage Students in the Classroom and Online
Tea for Teaching: The Active Learning Initiative at Cornell with Doug McKee
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
Understanding by Design (Backward Design) from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching
1-minute Paper - Ongoing Feedback Resources from Harvard’s Center for Teaching and Learning
Teddy Svoronos
8/26/2021 • 42 minutes, 2 seconds
How to Use a Course Workload Estimator
Betsy Barre talks about how (and why) to use a course workload estimator on episode 375 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The difference between an expert reader and a student reader is that an expert reader will slow down when they don’t know a word.
-Betsy Barre
Students are reading, they just aren’t reading well.
-Betsy Barre
Is this activity really worth it given my outcomes of the course?
-Betsy Barre
We all need to be talking more about time.
-Betsy Barre
Resources
Course Workload Estimator 2.0
Course Workload Estimator
How Much Should We Assign? Estimating Out of Class Workload, by Betsy Barre
So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?, by Keith Rayner et al
R Studio
Janet Evanovich’s Stephenie Plum novels
8/19/2021 • 48 minutes, 19 seconds
Small Teaching Reprised
James Lang shares about the second edition of Small Teaching on episode 374 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Small changes can absolutely lead to revolutionary changes.
-James Lang
Students have to be introduced and conditioned to accept different types of teaching approaches.
-James Lang
I love having my students try to teach things they have learned to another audience.
-James Lang
My most fundamental principal about teaching is vary what you’re doing.
-James Lang
Resources
Should We Stop Grading Class Participation?
Small Changes in Teaching: The Last 5 Minutes of Class
On Not Drawing Conclusions About Online Teaching Now — or Next Fall
Small Changes in Teaching: Making Connections
What I Am Learning About My Students During an Impossible Semester
Turn Your Classroom Irritation Into Compassion
Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources
8/12/2021 • 42 minutes, 43 seconds
The Role of Faculty in Student Mental Health
Sarah Lipson and Laura Horne share about The Role of Faculty in Student Mental Health on episode 373 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
One of the most important determinants of student learning is motivation.
-Sarah Lipson
Resources Mentioned
Student Mental Health and Faculty: Q&A With Dr. Sarah Kelchen Lipson of the Health Minds Study:
Report: The Role of Faculty in Student Mental Health
ACUE Report: Creating a Culture of Caring: Practical Approaches for College and University Faculty to Support Student Wellbeing and Mental Health
Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 317 with Laura Horne: Mental Health on the College Campus
8/5/2021 • 50 minutes, 29 seconds
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
Alex Shevrin Venet talks about her book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education on episode 372 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Something that might just be stressful for one person could be traumatic for another.
-Alex Shevrin Venet
Trauma-informed education is not a checklist.
-Alex Shevrin Venet
The way we understand trauma is always changing.
-Alex Shevrin Venet
Resources
Episode 258 with Sara Goldrick-Rab: Paying the Price
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, by Alex Shevrin Venet*
Episode 335 with Mays Imad: Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning
7/29/2021 • 36 minutes, 34 seconds
Peer Mentoring
Simon Dalley shares about peer mentoring on episode 371 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A peer mentor is a more qualified and experienced student that provides guidance and support to another student.
-Simon Dalley
Mentors are influential in terms of being a remodel. They are the embodiment of a successful student.
-Simon Dalley
Teaching is to learn twice.
-Simon Dalley
Resources
Video of peer mentors talking about the programme
Motivational interviewing overview
The Hidden Curriculum
Video: Unwritten Rules for College Success
Kristen Neff - Self Compassion
7/22/2021 • 33 minutes, 28 seconds
Toward More Equitable Assessment
Erin Whitteck and Douglas Fritz share efforts toward more equitable assessment on episode 370 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
First impressions with students are extremely important.
-Erin Whitteck
High stakes assessments create such a risk averse environment where there is no room to fail.
-Douglas Fritz
Resources
Bonni explains the significance of her favorite number (208) and how it is associated with her teaching during Episode 208
Boxes (digital and/or analog) of encouragement
Relationship-Rich Education, by Peter Felton and Leo Lambert
Peter Felton and Leo Lambert talk about Relationship-Rich Education on Episode 331 of Teaching in Higher Ed
Robert Talbert describes his 3-dimensional view of assessment in his post: Building Calculus Assessments (not just related to calculus, by the way)
Retrieval Practice
Erin likes how Rissa Sorensen-Unruh talks about the word ‘rigor’ in being used to support high-stakes exams
7/15/2021 • 44 minutes, 53 seconds
Advice to a New Professor
Dave and Bonni Stachowiak give advice to a new professor on episode 369 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students aren’t our adversaries.
-Kevin Gannon
Resources Mentioned
Episode 6: Eight Seconds That will Transform Your Teaching with Dave Stachowiak
Episode 94: Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal
Retrieval Practice website
Episode 184: The Science of Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It, by James M. Lang
The Distracted Classroom series, by James M. Lang for The Chronicle of Higher Education
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, 2nd Edition, by James M. Lang
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom, 3rd Edition, by Stephen D. Brookfield
The Productive Online and Offline Professor, by Bonni Stachowiak
7/8/2021 • 37 minutes, 43 seconds
Defining Our Future
Kelvin Bentley talks about defining our future on episode 368 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The pandemic has forced us to re-examine how we teach, what we are teaching, and what we can be doing differently.
-Kelvin Bentley
Our learners need us to be more mindful of our work.
-Kelvin Bentley
We need to do a better job at re-examining our learning experiences.
-Kelvin Bentley
We need to leverage better data to make more informed decisions that will help us improve our pedagogy.
-Kelvin Bentley
Resources
@BlackTimeLord
Dr. Who
Actualizing the Online Community College, by Kelvin Bentley for EDUCAUSE
Kelvin joins Bryan Alexander on the Future Trends Forum
Paul LeBlanc of Southern New Hampshire University
Capella University’s FlexPath Learning Format
WGU (Western Governors University)
WGU Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Marni Baker Stein
7/1/2021 • 42 minutes, 30 seconds
Fuel Efficient Mentoring
Resa Lewiss & Adaira Landry share about fuel efficient mentoring on episode 367 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There has to be a sense of trust and physiological safety in the mentor/mentee relationship.
-Resa Lewiss
Boundaries are the most important part of a relationship.
-Adaira Landry
The whole point of this is to build a sustainable model so that you mentor more.
-Adaira Landry
It is the responsibility of the mentor to recognize if it is not the right fit.
-Resa Lewiss
Resources Mentioned
What Efficient Mentorship Looks Like
What a Compassionate Email Culture Looks Like
Here's Something Good: The Doctor Will See You Now…Remotely on Apple Podcasts
6/24/2021 • 44 minutes, 51 seconds
How to Create a Digital Teaching Toolkit
Jeremy Caplan on episode 366 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Sometimes the tool isn’t the most important thing.
-Jeremy Caplan
The really important thing is that we are engaging people.
-Jeremy Caplan
Sometimes an investment in trying a new tool can open up some advantages.
-Jeremy Caplan
Resources Mentioned
Jeremy Caplan's Wonder Tools newsletter
Pitch | Collaborative presentation software for modern teams
Presentation Maker | From Basic to Beautiful in Minutes with Beautiful.ai
Projector — Create to captivate
Slido - Audience Interaction Made Easy
Recommended Zoom Settings - YouTube
Photos - Google Photos
Send to Dropbox | Email + Dropbox
Conversations in the cloud
SpeakPipe - receive voice messages from your audience directly on your website.
Flipgrid | Empower Every Voice
Google Jamboard
Padlet: You are beautiful
An Online Visual Collaboration Platform for Teamwork | Miro
MURAL.CO
FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to explore ideas together
The Digital Gallery Walk: Collaboration on their feet - Ditch That Textbook
Amuse-bouche
6/17/2021 • 44 minutes, 55 seconds
Equity-Enhancing Data Tools
Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan share two equity-enhancing data tools on episode 365 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When I saw the data, my jaw dropped. I was so disappointed. The data was showing me that there were big disparities based on race and ethnicity.
-Kelly Hogan
What can I do to level the playing field for students?
-Kelly Hogan
We wanted to give people the opportunity to hold a mirror up to their teaching in a way that was pretty inaccessible to a lot of instructors.
-Viji Sathy
We all collect a lot of data in our teaching that we don’t always see as data.
--Viji Sathy
Resources Mentioned
Class Features Tool in ConnectCarolina | The Office Of Undergraduate Curricula
Asking questions that probe for deeper understanding | Instructional Moves
New analytics dashboard lets faculty see class demographics | The Well : The Well
MCAD | The Center for Faculty Excellence
Teaching: Giving Students Better Information Before They Sign Up for Class
NameCoach
NameDrop
ESCALA Educational Services
How to pronounce Viji’s name from her website
Why We’re “Speaking Up” About Inclusive Teaching Strategies, by Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan
6/10/2021 • 44 minutes, 28 seconds
Creating and Extending Open Education
Terry Greene shares about creating and extending open education on episode 364 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Wait for insights to happen and then act on them when they come.
-Terry Greene
Joy is missing in education a lot and it doesn’t have to be.
-Terry Greene
Resources Mentioned
Overture for OpenEd16 keynote talk; Gardner Campbell
OpenEd16 Gardner Campbell keynote
The Open Faculty Patchbook
Awards | The Open Faculty Patchbook
Gettin’ Air | voicEd
Check the O.L.: Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (VILLARD BOOKS): Coleman, Brian, Questlove*
Laura Gibbs websites
Home | Ontario Extend
Welcome to ds106
David Cronenberg - Wikipedia
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio: Abel, Jessica*
Note: Thanks to Chris Jobling for writing to let me know that the trick Terry mentioned in the recommendations segment about typing new.doc in Chrome works in other browsers, as well (Chris tried it on the Edge browser and I tried it on Safari)
6/3/2021 • 30 minutes, 16 seconds
Evidence-Based Teaching Practices
Phil Newton joins me to talk about evidence-based teaching practices on episode 363 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Many different things can count as evidence, but the key is whether or not they are useful for you in your particular context.
-Phil Newton
Assessment drives learning.
-Phil Newton
Resources
The Case for Pragmatic Evidence-Based Higher Education: A Useful Way Forward? by Philip M. Newton, Ana Da Silva, and Sam Berry
Evidence-Based Higher Education – Is the Learning Styles ‘Myth’ Important?, by Philip M. Newton and Mahallad Miah
The Learning Styles Myth is Thriving in Higher Education, by Philip M. Newton
Retrieval Practice
Substantia nigra
The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information, by G. A. Miller
Peerwise
5/27/2021 • 39 minutes, 36 seconds
Language Learning Ideologies
Emma Trentman shares some Ideologies regarding language learning on episode 362 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When you take language out of its social context and it is decontextualized, then you lose sight of how that language is connected to its social context.
-Emma Trentman
Rather than focusing on what language we are using, try focusing on how we are using language in particular social contexts.
-Emma Trentman
Resources
Duolingo
Language Ideologies in the Wild: Duolingo, by Emma Trentman
Emma’s blog
Clarifying Translanguaging and Deconstructing Names Languages: A Perspective from Linguistics, by Richard Otheguy, Ofelia García, and Wallis Reid
Language Learning in Study Abroad: The Multilingual Turn, Edited by: Wenhao Diao, Emma Trentman
Ideologies of Study Abroad Language Immersion
What is Language? The Nation State Ideology
Language Ideologies in the Wild: Science of Learning
Twitter thread on Language Ideologies
Note: Emma sent over a corrected pronunciation for Mike Mena’s name and we were unable to get it into the main episode audio. We hope people will check out his YouTube channel for both an accurate pronunciation, along with some excellent content from a linguistic anthropologist.
5/20/2021 • 28 minutes, 48 seconds
What We Have Learned
Donald Bullock and I talk about what we have learned on episode 362 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
In college you blink and then it’s over.
-Donald Bullock
In my early days of college I was just trying to get used to the work load.
-Donald Bullock
I learn so much better in classes where we have open discussions that feel more like a conversation rather than just someone lecturing at me.
-Donald Bullock
My heart and passion for justice started at a very young age.
-Donald Bullock
Resources Mentioned
Quizlet
This I Believe Essays
This I Believe Curriculum
Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, by Susan Hrach
5/13/2021 • 39 minutes, 16 seconds
Big Rocks Productivity
Eva Lantsoght shares some of her productivity approaches on episode 360 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It has been a very good time to reflect on what we value most.
-Eva Lantsoght
Especially in these times, I really want to be there for my students.
-Eva Lantsoght
Resources Mentioned
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey*
Big Rocks Demonstration
Eva’s website: including her free templates
Get a Life, PhD
Michael Hyatt’s Designing Your Ideal Week
5/6/2021 • 38 minutes, 55 seconds
Design to Engage
Beth Cougler Blom discusses her book, Design to Engage, on episode 359 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I want to start with outcomes. I want to plan but I need to be flexible within that.
-Beth Cougler Blom
Flexibility within structure is an art.
-Beth Cougler Blom
There is a sweet spot that we need to find between authenticity and professionalism.
-Beth Cougler Blom
Resources Mentioned
Design to Engage, by Beth Cougler Blom*
Lesson Plan Template
Present on Canva and Use a Timer
Episode 324 | Teaching Effectively with Zoom | Dan Levy
4/29/2021 • 43 minutes, 8 seconds
Sneaky Assignments
Matt Reed shares about sneaky assignments and student speak outs on episode 358 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I used the pseudonym Dean Dad because those were the two roles that I spent most of my waking hours doing.
-Matt Reed
Covid changed the whole experience of time and space.
-Matt Reed
Resources Mentioned
Friday Fragments, by Matt Reed
Pre-Mad, by Matt Reed
Dreaming from a Distance, by Matt Reed
Matt Reed’s columns on Inside Higher Ed
Research Report: How Does Hyflex Work in a Large Course? by Robert Talbert
4/22/2021 • 34 minutes, 31 seconds
An Interdisciplinary Legacy
Sandie Morgan and Warren Doody share about Elizabeth Leonard’s interdisciplinary legacy on episode 357 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
She was very intentional about introducing faculty, colleagues, and students to people from outside that would bring different perspectives.
-Sandie Morgan
She could fight if she had to. She could stand her ground if she had to. What was so wonderful about her was she always fought the right fight.
-Warren Doody
She was a one-size-fits-all person. She could do so many different things.
-Warren Doody
She knew so much from such a broad spectrum of disciplines and she wanted her students to have that kind of competency.
-Sandie Morgan
Resources Mentioned
Warren’s website
Life Without Parole
Olivia Klaus
Brendan Kennelly
Note: I (Bonni) misspoke multiple times in the episode regarding the unwritten rules/customs of an organization's culture (in this case, a university). I said "doca" in the episode, when the correct word is "doxa"
Pierre Bourdieu and doxa
4/15/2021 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
One Year In
Bonni Stachowiak reflects on learnings as we cross the year COVID mark on episode 356 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Reflection is such an important part of our process as teachers.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I had no idea what was in store.
-Bonni Stachowiak
We have witnessed immense inequities.
-Bonni Stachowiak
While there have been so many difficult aspects, there have also been many discoveries.
-Bonni Stachowiak
I have witnessed incredible lessons of independence.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
TikTok: J&J One-Shot
Global Vaccine Apartheid
A Year of Remote Teaching, by Michelle Miller in The Chronicle
Ass_Deans Status
Structuring Synchronous Classes for Engagement
How Do You Make Zoom Rooms Less Boring? Bonni Stachowiak writes for EdSurge
Google Jamboard
Brené on Anxiety, Calm + Over/Under Functioning
Grief is Good? by Laura Pasquini
4/8/2021 • 17 minutes, 55 seconds
Coffee, Community, and Curriculum
Barbara Rodriguez, Jodi Robson, and Michelle Levine talk coffee, community, and curriculum on episode 355 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is important to find out early in the semester what our students need in order to be successful.
-Jodi Robson
Resources Mentioned
Audible*
The Coffee Shop YouTube Channel
Coffee, Community, and Curriculum: ACUE Partner Schools in Florida Join Together to Build Community of Professional Practice
Entrance tickets
Helping students persist
Video assessments
4/1/2021 • 27 minutes, 11 seconds
Advancing Online Teaching
Todd Zakrajsek and Kevin Kelly talk about their book Advancing Online Teaching on episode 354 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is a human at the other end of that internet connection.
-Kevin Kelly
I look for the people who are not like me.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources Mentioned
Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments, by Kevin Kelly & Todd Zakrajsek
Dee Fink
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Episode 316 with Maria Andersen: learn. explore. apply.
The Community of Inquiry
Students Who Don’t Participate in Class Discussions: They Are Not All Introverts, by Todd Zakrajsek
Blended Learning in Higher Education: Framework, Principles, and Guidelines, by D. Randy Garrison Norman D. Vaughan
3/25/2021 • 44 minutes, 21 seconds
How to bring art and science into online teaching
Stephanie Moore shares how to bring art and science into online teaching on episode 354 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Online learning gets boxed in quite often.
-Stephanie Moore
What does the college experience mean? And for whom?
-Stephanie Moore
Our teaching practices are continually improving and evolving.
-Stephanie Moore
You’re not failing, you’re learning.
-Stephanie Moore
Resources
Planning for Resilience, Not Resistance, by Stephanie Moore and Phil Hill
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning, by Charles Hodges, Stephanie Moore, Barb Lockee, Torrey Trust and Aaron Bond
So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online, by Stephanie Moore and Charles B. Hodges
American Factory
3/18/2021 • 43 minutes, 9 seconds
Invisible Learning
David Franklin shares about his book, Invisible Learning, on episode 352 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is as much about the student's relationship with statistics as it is about statistics itself.
-David Franklin
How do our biases affect the way that we think?
-David Franklin
He encourages an atmosphere in which he can be questioned.
-David Franklin
Resources Mentioned
Invisible Learning, by David Franklin
The Spark of Learning, by Sarah Rose Canavagh
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain
Ken Bain on Episode 36 of Teaching in Higher Ed
PollEverywhere
Coaching for Leaders
Good teaching is about having students answer questions or solving problems that they find intriguing, interesting, or beautiful. - Ken Bain
3/11/2021 • 44 minutes, 17 seconds
Hyflex: Create Engaging Asynchronous Activities
Bonni Stachowiak shares how to create engaging asynchronous activities for Hyflex courses on episode 351 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Curation is an essential skill for me to practice.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources
Episode 309: Hyflex Learning with David Rhoads
Episode 327: Misconceptions about Hyflex with David Rhoads
Banking Model of Education on Wikipedia
Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery model
Community of Inquiry on Wikipedia
Chapter: Community of Inquiry Framework in Online Learning: Use of Technology, by Lindita Bektashi
Quizlet
Loom
Episode 347: Online Culture with Courtney Plotts
Michael Sandel’s Justice Course Videos and Discussion Guides
Mike Caulfield’s SIFT modules
Ethics for A-Level, by Mark Dimmock and Andrew Fisher
The True Cost
American Factory
This I Believe
NPR audio series: This I Believe
This I Believe in the Classroom
Episode 215: Teaching as an Act of Social Justice and Equity with Bryan Dewsbury
3/4/2021 • 32 minutes, 36 seconds
Ungrading
Susan Blum shares about ungrading on episode 350 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Genuine education isn’t simply this points game.
-Susan Blum
If the learning is interesting, people will do it.
-Susan Blum
Think about your students as people who are learning things for purposes. If they are not learning for a grade, why else are they learning?
-Susan Blum
The goal is learning. Learning can be for the purpose of use or interest.
-Susan Blum
Resources
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum
Alfie Cohen
Human Synergistics Ethical Challenge
I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College, by Susan Blum*
Universal Design for Learning
Derek Bruff shares about times for telling on his blog
Schwartz, Daniel L. and Bransford, John D.(1998)'A Time For Telling'
2/25/2021 • 43 minutes, 5 seconds
Community Building Activities
Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, and Mia Zamora share about community building activities on episode 349 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is not enough to tell students I want to listen to you. You have to build the trust so they will talk to you and be candid with you.
-Maha Bali
Community is more than just a gathering of people in a room. It is a sense of caring about one another and for something.
-Autumm Caines
It is something really powerful when we learn together in community.
-Autumm Caines
You can’t insist upon trust. It has to be something that emerges from moments.
-Mia Zamora
Resources
Maha’s story regarding: OPPORTUNIYISNOWHERE
Community Building Resources
OneHE
Equity Unbound
Do unto students as they would have done to them, by Maha Bali
Synchronish learning (referenced in this Inside Higher Ed article, which quotes Sean Michael Morris)
An Ethic of Caring and Its Implications for Instructional Arrangements, by Nel Noddings
The Language of Care Ethics, by Nel Noddings
From Twitter Thread to Model to Keynote #OpenEd20 & #MandL20, by Maha Bali
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Hybrid Video Dialogue: The context of virtually connecting, by Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Rebecca J. Hogue, Helen J. Dewaard, Christian Friedrich
Liberating Structures
The Zoom Gaze, by Autumm Caines
Spiral journal
TROIKA
Pass the paper
Surrealist Free Drawing Introductions
Some safety considerations for online community building, by Kate Bowles
2/18/2021 • 49 minutes, 2 seconds
You Must Remember This
Michelle D. Miller discusses why memory is important for learning - even in the age of Google on episode 348 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ask students to link their learning to their own lives.
-Michelle D. Miller
Resources
As Time Goes By
Tending, befriending, and coping with upending: Takeaways from the first month of mass emergency remote education, by Michelle Miller
Active learning, active pushback, and what we should take away from a new study of student perceptions, by Michelle Miller
Deep Work, by Cal Newport
Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, by Michelle Miller
Episode 26 with Michelle Miller: Minds Online
Episode 291 with Michelle Miller: Learning Myths and Realities
How to Make Smart Choices About Tech for Your Course, by Michelle Miller
Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
2/11/2021 • 45 minutes, 59 seconds
Online Culture
Courtney Plotts is back on Teaching in Higher Ed to discuss online culture on episode 347 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When we look at the culture of learning, whether in the online space or in the classroom space, a lot of students experience marginalization.
-Courtney Plotts
Research says that marginalization is a self-selected way to deal with acculturated stress.
-Courtney Plotts
When we look at what successful students do, they are not independent, they are interdependent.
-Courtney Plotts
We have to be honest that campus culture is not the online culture. It is an extension, but it is not the same thing.
-Courtney Plotts
Resources
Community of Inquiry overview from the University of Toronto
Cameras Be Damned, by Karen Costa
The Community of Inquiry website
Janae Cohn
2/4/2021 • 31 minutes, 49 seconds
Filling the equity gap in STEM Fields
Archana McEligot discusses filling the equity gap in STEM fields on episode 346 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You really do need that interdisciplinary perspective when looking at data.
-Archana McEligot
We can’t work in silos, some of the greatest innovations and discoveries have happened through an interdisciplinary perspective.
-Archana McEligot
Many underrepresented students experience imposter syndrome.
-Archana McEligot
Seeing someone that looks like them is so important.
-Archana McEligot
Resources Mentioned
Big Data Discovery and Diversity: Through Research, Education Advancement and Partnership (BD3-REAP)
BD3-REAP Faculty
John Snow
1/28/2021 • 38 minutes, 31 seconds
Transforming a University
Adanely Jimenez, Adrian Delgado, + Jenny Vargas shares about transforming a university on episode 345 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was a big 180 slap in the face thing for me being around a whole diverse group of people and students who were my age, but I really thought everyone my age thought the way I did.
-Jenny Vargas
I was grateful to have professors who took the time to ask me what was wrong, if I was ok, and how it was going. Being able to speak to my professors when I was going through something made it easier for me to be real.
-Adanely Jimenez
Resources
Vanguard University Living Well Community Resource Center
High School Musical
Spreading the Word- Supporting Students’ Basic Needs with a Syllabus Statement and a Welcome Survey
Samson’s Career Pop-Up Closet
Vanguard University Career Services
The Hope Center
1/21/2021 • 44 minutes, 32 seconds
Caring for the Whole Person
Sharon Hamill speaks about caring for the whole person on episode 344 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was an opportunity for these outstanding graduate students at Cal State San Marcos to be able to be on the frontlines actually educating.
-Sharon Hamill
Watching these public health students get in there and do their thing- I was just in awe.
-Sharon Hamill
I think you have to embrace the messiness and recognize that this is probably where the best learning is going to occur.
-Sharon Hamill
Resources
The What Gives Your Life Meaning (WGYLM®) Campaign
Youth Caregivers
Alzheimer’s Association of Orange County
Caregiver Resources
1/14/2021 • 35 minutes, 1 second
Meeting the Moment Through Inclusive Teaching
Meeting the Moment Through Inclusive Teaching, with Michael Benitez and Meredith Flynn.
Quotes from the episode
Pedagogy is truly a craft. It is an art and requires us to be attentive to it.
-Michael Benitez
As educators, we want to make sure that we create really welcoming environments and that our learning environments promote equitable and successful outcomes for our students.
-Meredith Flynn
Resources
Improve online teaching while learning about anti-racist pedagogy (MSU Denver)
Creating an Inclusive Online Learning Environment: Webinar Recap (ACUE Community)
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan Blum*
Pasque, P. A., Chesler, M. A., Charbeneau, J., & Carlson, C. (2013). Pedagogical approaches to student racial conflict in the classroom. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6 (1), 1-16.
Equity-Minded and Culturally-Affirming Teaching and Learning Practices in Virtual Learning Communities with J. Luke Wood and Frank Harris III
1/7/2021 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
Place-Based Learning
Amy Sprowles and Matt Johnson on episode 342 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We became much more aware and knowledgeable about what place-based learning means to other people and other groups.
-Amy Sprowles
Place-based learning rests on the power of immersing students, faculty and staff in the place and recognizing the heritage, culture, landscape, geography, plants, animals and rocks and how those things interact with each other to illustrate to students how so many disciplines are interconnected.
-Matt Johnson
You cannot talk about the place without talking about the Indigenous people that have been there since time immemorial.
-Matt Johnson
Resources
Place-Based Learning Communities
Place-Based Education Reports - Humboldt State University
2019 Presentation to the Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators
Klamath Connection Program
Native Land Interactive Map
12/31/2020 • 40 minutes, 17 seconds
Multidisciplinary Teaching
Susan Roll and Jennifer Wilking share their experience teaching a multidisipilnary course together on episode 341 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was really fascinating to see how students across these three disciplines had different orientations from day one to this issue of homelessness.
-Jennifer Wilking
One of the real benefits to interdisciplinary teaching is the exposure to different perspectives.
-Jennifer Wilking
Students have such a deeper understanding when they’re actually doing the research rather than just hearing about research methods.
-Jennifer Wilking
Once they have an experience and actually talk to a person who is experiencing homelessness, all of those preconceptions start to drop away; and that’s the beauty of doing research too.
-Jennifer Wilking
Resources
Student Teams Work to Alleviate Housing Insecurity
Episode 234 with Maria Andersen: A new lens to support learning outcomes
Mariah Kornbluh
Mindmap
12/23/2020 • 40 minutes, 45 seconds
Humanized Online Dance Classes
Heather Castillo and MiRi Park share about humanized online dance classes (and dance as protest) on episode 340 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When I went to college I was being modeled into this modern dancer, I didn’t necessarily know what that meant, but I still wanted to be the best.
-MiRi Park
I think of them as people who do dance, as opposed to merely dancers. They are human beings that have histories of arrival and each person is unique, so there is never going to be just one story.
-MiRi Park
There was never a doubt in either of our minds that this could be done.
-Heather Castillo
Why keep the information to myself when I can share it with others?
-MiRi Park
Resources
CORontine Corps
Considerations for Moving University Dance Classes Online via the Dance Studies Association
Loïe Fuller
Isadora Duncan
Breakdancing/b-boy/b-girl
Nia Love
Planet B-Boy
Dr. Shamell Bell
Butoh dancers
Innovations in Digital Pedagogy: Preparing the Globe for the Unfathomable - Virtual Dance Instruction
Dancing Bodies That Proclaim: Black Lives Matter
Sample Online Dance History Course
Considerations for Moving University Dance Classes Online
12/17/2020 • 43 minutes, 56 seconds
Personal Knowledge Management Reprised
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni share about our personal knowledge management practices on episode 339 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
"Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks."
-Dave Stachowiak quotes Harold Jarche
Resources Mentioned
Harold Jarche’s PKM Resources
The Seek > Sense > Share Framework
SIFT: The Four Moves, by Mike Caufield
Inoreader
Feedburner
Unread
Overcast
John Stepper - Working Out Loud
Raindrop.io
Twitter list: Disability
Twitter list: Teaching + Learning Ctrs (Peter Newbury)
Episode 53 with Peter Newbury
Readwise
12/10/2020 • 45 minutes, 47 seconds
Inclusive Excellence
Douglas Haynes shares about inclusive excellence on episode 338 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
More universities and colleges across the country have articulated a real commitment to diversity in value statements, in offices and programs, and in initiatives and events. That’s a good start.
-Douglas Haynes
It is open to members of the campus community to learn together.
-Douglas Haynes
We’re going to confront anti-blackness as an institutional imperative.
-Douglas Haynes
Resources
UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence
Inclusion Action Plan
Black Thriving Initiative
#actforinclusion
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele
12/3/2020 • 37 minutes, 19 seconds
Authentic Assignments
Deandra Little Authentic Assignments on episode 337 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Category/tags: Assessment and grading.
Quotes from the episode
A really good assignment, which is also a really good assessment, also teaches you something.
-Deandra Little
Thinking about the purpose also helps you talk about meaning.
-Deandra Little
Resources
Assam Tea
Jesse Stommel
Transparency in Learning and Teaching
Dr. Vanessa Drew-Branch (created the podcast assignments)
Elon University Human Service Studies students craft podcasts to explore impact of COVID-19 on service agencies, diverse populations
11/25/2020 • 37 minutes, 56 seconds
Equity in STEM
Matthew Paolucci Callahan discusses equity in STEM on episode 336 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think that for anybody who wants to learn, if they work hard enough, and if the instructor is clear enough, they can rise to their highest level.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
Students in STEM receive bias from other students.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
We meet students at the undergraduate level to teach about gender bias and sexual harassment early in their career.
-Matthew Paolucci Callahan
Resources
New Award National Science Foundation: “Gender Bias Stem” (Drs. Matthew Paolucci-Callahan and Lynn Cominsky)
Sex role spillover
11/19/2020 • 39 minutes, 5 seconds
Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning
Mays Imad discusses trauma-informed teaching and learning on episode 335 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am able to recognize when they are triggered and when they feel disengaged. I also am able to recognize it in myself. We can’t give what we don’t have.
-Mays Imad
I want to acknowledge that we can heal from trauma.
-Mays Imad
My goal is to engage students and help them feel empowered and liberated.
-Mays Imad
We are not just thinking machines; we are feeling machines capable of thinking.
-Mays Imad
Resources Mentioned
Trauma-informed teaching webinar
Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now, by Mays Imad
11/12/2020 • 44 minutes, 2 seconds
Learn, Teach… and Satirize with Video
Andrew Ishak talks about Learn, Teach... and Satirize with Video on episode 334 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You’re aware of the audience; you’re aware of the students.
-Andrew Ishak
Know what key points you need to hit. Be aware of the time and be aware of your audience.
-Andrew Ishak
I have 3 or 4 main points I want to hit with some notes underneath each. If I don’t get to some of the notes on some of them, that’s fine. It’s all about hitting the key points.
-Andrew Ishak
Have a backup plan.
-Andrew Ishak
Resources
Using Video to Learn New Skills, Engage Students … and Satirize (ACUE Community)
Making Your Zoom Look More Professorial (Vimeo)
Andrew Ishak Video Channel (Vimeo)
Video clips from ACUE Q&A
Talking about the 52-video resolution in 2018 (YouTube)
Talking about Zoom backgrounds and looking professional (YouTube)
Talking about ACUE experience (YouTube)
Making Your Zoom Look More Professional
2028: In Which a Time Traveller Answers 2020’s Big Questions
11/5/2020 • 38 minutes, 8 seconds
Fostering Curiosity in STEM and Beyond
Heloise Stevance shares how to foster curiosity in STEM and (other disciplines) on episode 333 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Some of the most fundamental questions you can ask are the hardest to answer and explain in a concise way.
-Héloïse Stevance
You captivate them with the things that are fun… because learning is fun.
-Héloïse Stevance
Good outreach doesn’t make you sound clever. It makes the audience feel smart.
-Héloïse Stevance
Failure is just part of the process. It is an ongoing part and never really goes away.
-Héloïse Stevance
Resources
Héloïse’s response to a young woman’s question about maths
5 Crazy Facts About Failed Stars (brown dwarfs)
Dr. Héloïse’s YouTube channel
Dr. Nova on TikTok
Kirsten Banks on TikTok
Science communication (#scicomm) on Wikipedia
Episode 215 with Bryan Dewsbury: Teaching as an Act of Social Justice and Equity
This I Believe from NPR
This I Believe Educator’s Guide
10/27/2020 • 38 minutes, 9 seconds
Distracted
James Lang shares about his new book, Distracted, on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
One of the main ideas of the book is to try to convince people that attention is something that we should value in education and not take for granted.
-James Lang
We are all experiencing lots of challenging issues right now in our lives.
-James Lang
One of the major things I argue in the book is thinking about the structure of the class.
-James Lang
Learning does not happen without attention.
-James Lang
Resources Mentioned
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It, by James Lang
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver, Sometimes
Cheating Lessons
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum
10/22/2020 • 34 minutes, 26 seconds
Relationship-Rich Education
Peter Felten and Leo Lambert talk about their new book Relationship-Rich Education on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We don’t use relational language to talk about how to go to college. And we need to do that.
-Leo Lambert
Relationships are high stakes for students both in college and after college.
-Leo Lambert
Of all the places on college campuses where relationships take hold, the classroom is still the most important place.
-Leo Lambert
They’re not asking us to solve all their problems, they just want to be seen as humans.
-Peter Felten
Resources Mentioned
Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College, by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most, by Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert
Elon 101: The First-Year Advising Seminar
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Students Perceiving That an Instructor Knows Their Names in a High-Enrollment Biology Classroom, by Katelyn M. Cooper, Brian Haney, Anna Krieg, and Sara E. Brownell
Caution, Student Experience May Vary: Social Identities Impact a Student’s Experience in Peer Discussions, by Sarah L. Eddy, Sara E. Brownell, Phonraphee Thummaphan, Ming-Chih Lan, and Mary Pat Wenderoth
Faculty Leadership and Student Persistence–A Story From Oakton Community College, by Elisabeth Barnett
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth, by Tara Yosso doi:10.1080/1361332052000341006
10/15/2020 • 44 minutes, 52 seconds
Transformative Inclusion
Paul Eaton shares about transformative inclusion on episode 330 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There are times where you can be more real with students.
-Paul Eaton
It is hard to get people to think outside of just individual behaviors.
-Paul Eaton
We spend way too much time focusing on the individual acts and not enough time focusing on the system. We have got to fix the system and that is much harder work.
-Paul Eaton
Resources Mentioned
Known and Strange Things, by Teju Cole
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Episode 228: How to Create Engaging Online Classes with Laura Gibbs
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
10/8/2020 • 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Time, Space, and Place
Sheila MacNeill shares about time, space, and place on episode 329 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to rethink our notion of time..
-Sheila MacNeill
We need to rethink and consider when and how and why we are in different places at different times.
-Sheila MacNeill
Resources Mentioned
Adventures With The Painted People
Beetle (game)
10/1/2020 • 39 minutes, 13 seconds
Teaching as Listening
Chris Friend discusses teaching as listening on episode 328 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
We don’t teach content, we teach the students who are in the room.
-Chris Friend
Planning less has always paid off for me.
-Chris Friend
This semester’s classes amaze me with how flexible and sympathetic students are. -
Chris Friend
Resources Mentioned
Research report: How does hyflex work in a large course? By Robert Talbert
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankel*
Teaching as Listening: Chris Friend’s blog post
9/24/2020 • 41 minutes, 32 seconds
Misconceptions About Hyflex
David Rhoads discusses common misconceptions about Hyflex on episode 327 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Every person that does Hyflex has a unique way of doing it.
-David Rhoads
Resources Mentioned
Hybrid-Flexible (Hyflex) Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes, Edited by Brian J. Beatty
The HyFlex Option for Instruction if Campuses Open This Fall, by Doug Lederman via Inside Higher Ed
The Princess Bride
Michael Sandel’s Justice Videos on YouTube
Justice Website
Episode 308: Hyflex Learning with David Rhoads
How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, by James Lang
Episode 228: How to Create Engaging Online Classes with Laura Gibbs
Episode 26: Minds Online with Michelle M. Miller
Episode 317: Mental Health with Laura Horne
9/17/2020 • 43 minutes, 56 seconds
Creatively Teaching Biology
Lisa Burgess, Idelisa Ayala, & Vanessa Hormann discuss creatively teaching biology on episode 326 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What do we want our students to walk away with?
-Lisa Burgess
We tend to do a lot of social media interaction. At the end of each lab we have hashtags.
-Vanessa Hormann
You really have to think about the student’s point of view.
-Vanessa Hormann
Resources Mentioned
Video: Everyday Biology at Broward College
Article: Getting Creative with Biology
Research Brief #13: Course Completion Gap Closed for Black Students and Gap in Passing Courses Closed for Pell-Eligible Students Taught by ACUE-Credentialed Faculty at Broward College
Everyday Biology #WHATSTHEPOINT
Link: Everyday Biology book
9/10/2020 • 42 minutes, 9 seconds
Digital Pedagogy Lab Reprised
Bonni Stachowiak shares about Digital Pedagogy Lab Reprised on episode 325 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Connect with others and ask questions. Be open.
-Dustin
Through constraint comes creativity.
-Christina
Provide as much consistency and as much grounding that you can for your students because there is so much unknown outside of your classroom.
-Sylvia
Resources Mentioned
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Episode 320 with Jesse Stommel: How to be together in learning online
9/3/2020 • 19 minutes, 14 seconds
Teaching Effectively with Zoom
Dan Levy talks about his book, Teaching Effectively with Zoom on episode 324 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Virtual provides a wider range of ways in which our students can engage in our classrooms.
-Dan Levy
In a virtual classroom students can share their work much more easily.
-Dan Levy
Resources
Teaching Effectively with Zoom, by Dan Levy
Book Resources
Example: Using Google Slides for Breakout Rooms
Zoom*
8/27/2020 • 37 minutes, 54 seconds
Becoming a Minority
Renea Brathwaite shares about his experience of “becoming a minority” on episode 323 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Where you start is not where you will end up.
-Renea Brathwaite
My core identity was formed and reinforced with value systems that valued me.
-Renea Brathwaite
Until that anger gets deeply seeded in a common humanity, it will just be anger and it becomes misplaced.
-Renea Brathwaite
Resources Mentioned
Barbados
Countries’ Literacy Rates
Stephen Brookfield
“Hope has two beautiful daughters: Anger at the way things are and courage to act so that things don’t stay the same”
8/20/2020 • 41 minutes, 10 seconds
Helping Students to Thrive
Shauntae Brown White discusses approaches for helping students to thrive in their learning on episode 322 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I never want to step into a classroom and not have a plan.
-Shauntae Brown White
Students appreciate someone saying "I don’t know."
-Shauntae Brown White
I just want to do things with excellence.
-Shauntae Brown White
Resources
Designing a Motivational Syllabus: Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement, by Christine Harrington
Voice & Choice Through Layered Curriculum
Video: The Bottom Line: Helping Students to Thrive
The Bottom Line: Helping Students to Thrive
Zoom
Brené on Anxiety, Calm + Over/Under-Functioning
Cardi B - Money
8/13/2020 • 44 minutes, 6 seconds
Storytelling: Audience, Path, and Destination
Josef Woldense discusses the elements of storytelling: audience, path, and destination on episode 321 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Storytelling is a technology that we, as humans, have evolved.
-Josef Woldense
The question becomes how can I have you buy into what I am doing?
-Josef Woldense
Resources Mentioned
“Story is how we make sense of the world. But the real breakthrough is the discovery of what triggers that sense of pleasure we feel when a story hooks us…” Lisa Cron
Role immersion games: Teaching in Higher Ed
Debriefing approaches: Teaching in Higher Ed
Videos: Reflections on the Analytic Paper
Mike Wesch's videos on YouTube
8/6/2020 • 43 minutes, 44 seconds
How to Be Together in Learning Online
Jesse Stommel talks about how to be together in learning online on episode 320 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is really important for us to pause as human beings and look at the words we are using and ask ourselves what is actually going on.
-Jesse Stommel
Resilience comes from a place of privilege.
-Jesse Stommel
Resources Mentioned
List of words Jesse would prefer not to hear again after the first half of 2020
Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved, by Kate Bowler
“Together” when not in person
“Together” when not meeting at the same “time”
“Learning is something we’re all doing all the time.”
“Education is something we do together.”
Sean Michael Morris - there’s no such thing as asynchronous - everything is synchronous
The Political Gabfest
Teaching to Transgress*, by bell hooks
Robyn Schindel on Twitter: Everything I see from Jesse is so incredibly grounded, I’d love to know how to maintain that. Like he’s thought through what’s right and what’s practical and somehow makes it all come together in something that seems so common sense once he says it- but isn’t common at all. This is what I want all leaders to act like. How do we develop that in ourselves?
Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection, edited by Jesse Stommel, Chris Friend, and Sean Michael Morris
7/29/2020 • 46 minutes, 20 seconds
Fostering Inclusion in Our Teaching
Marlo Goldstein Hode discusses barriers to inclusion in our teaching and approaches to embrace a diverse classroom on episode 319 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Being mindful of diversity and inclusion in an online environment is equally as important as it is in the classroom.
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Everybody has implicit biases.
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Our unconscious biases can be overridden, but they can’t be overwritten
-Marlo Goldstein Hode
Resources
ACUE Effective Online Teaching Practices
ACUE’s Online Teaching Toolkit
7/23/2020 • 30 minutes, 51 seconds
The Alchemy of Us
Ainissa Ramirez shares about her new book, The Alchemy of Us, on episode 318 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It’s just these little things that add up and eventually they completely dispirit a person.
-Ainissa Ramirez
Professors and teachers have a profound impact on people’s lives.
-Ainissa Ramirez
If we can learn from the past and see our reflection, we can make decisions about our present and make better decisions about our future.
-Ainissa Ramirez
It’s a burden to have to be perfect.
-Ainissa Ramirez
Resources Mentioned
The Alchemy of Us, by Ainissa Ramirez
Black in the Ivory - Co-founded by @DrShardeDavis and @smileitsjoy
Madonna
Material Girl
Ruth Belville
Groundhog Day
SaneBox
7/16/2020 • 37 minutes
Mental Health on the College Campus
Laura Horne shares about student mental health - creating a culture of caring on episode 317 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don’t think that we really always realize how common mental health issues are.
-Laura Horne
We all have some degree of personal experience with what it is like to struggle emotionally.
-Laura Horne
Learning is curiosity, it is relational, it is alive.
-Laura Horne
Asking for help is a sign of strength and it is necessary.
-Laura Horne
Resources Mentioned
Active Minds
Report: Creating a Culture of Caring
ACUE and Active Minds Collaborate to Strengthen Support of Student Mental Health
7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey
8-second Rule - Episode 6
Brené Brown - Over/under-functioning podcast episode
7/9/2020 • 43 minutes, 18 seconds
Designing for the Uncertain Fall
Maria Andersen discusses how to design courses for the uncertain Fall semester on episode 316 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Even when we are told what is going to be happening, nobody believes it anymore.
-Maria Andersen
This lack of knowledge for what is concretely going to happen is a barrier for a lot of people.
-Maria Andersen
Better to go deep than to go wide.
-Maria Andersen
Resources
Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 234: A New Lens to Support Learning Outcomes (ESIL)
Graphs in the World on Instagram
Bringing the Real World to Your Math Class Every Day, by Maria Andersen
CoursePlan
7/2/2020 • 43 minutes, 10 seconds
Theory vs Practice
Viviana Pezzullo shares about theory versus practice in pedagogy on episode 315 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It was interesting to see how the same technique may be applied in different fields.
-Viviana Pezzullo
Sometimes for students it may not be comfortable to share videos, but I think it is important for the professor to do it.
-Viviana Pezzullo
Resources
Reaching Out to Struggling Students, Virtually
FlipGrid in Higher Education
Engaging Students Using FlipGrid with Ramesh Laungani
6/25/2020 • 26 minutes, 9 seconds
Culturally Responsive Online Teaching
EPISODE SPONSORS:
Courtney Plotts discusses culturally-responsive online teaching on episode 314 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How well are we really reaching our students? How is that authenticity coming through?
-Courtney Plotts
Show me community and I will participate. Show me that I am safe. Show me you understand my concerns.
-Courtney Plotts
If I really want to connect with you, I need to learn more about you and really define the space for you.
-Courtney Plotts
Resources
On the Folly of Rewarding A While Hoping for B, by Steven Kerr
Teaching Connectedness Webinar
The Space Between - Identifying Cultural Canyons in Online Spaces and the Use of LatinX Culture to Bridge the Divide, by Dr. Courtney Plotts
What Do Our Most Vulnerable Students Need This Fall? To Be on Campus, by James M. Lang
TextExpander
SaneBox
6/18/2020 • 38 minutes, 28 seconds
This is Not a Test
José Luis Vilson discusses race, class, and education on episode 313 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Either you get ashamed of your identity or you are proud of your identity.
-José Luis Vilson
I just didn’t realize that all that information I was gathering was going to become something that would eventually make me whole.
-José Luis Vilson
So many of us feel like education is a matter of life and death.
-José Luis Vilson
Resources
This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, by José Luis Vilson*
The José Vilson website
A Justice Letter to Educators of Color and Conscience, by José Luis Vilson
A Note About Identity and the Light That Guides Us, by José Luis Vilson
José Luis Vilson’s speeches and workshops
Our Profession Requires Hope, Now And Ever Since, by José Luis Vilson
6/11/2020 • 33 minutes, 24 seconds
Digital Visitors and Residents
David White shares about digital visitors and residents on episode 312 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Fundamentally it is about motivation to engage.
-David White
That is what education is about, it is encouraging people to make connections.
-David White
A set of practices or literacies that exist in one context don’t necessarily easily translate over to another context.
-David White
The digital environment is as much where people live as the physical environment.
-David White
Resources Mentioned
Digital visitors and residents
Marc Prensky
Video: Residents and visitors
Video: Mapping activity
George Siemens
Ireland All Aboard Digital Literacies
Social work example blog from Dr. Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick
6/4/2020 • 44 minutes, 45 seconds
Values-Centered Instructional Planning
Robin DeRosa and Martha Burtis about the new ACE framework to guide instructional planning in responses to COVID-19 on episode 311 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Faculty would be well served by using their instructional missions more in their course designs.
-Robin DeRosa
I think reflecting the human condition is part of the job and the work of universities and colleges.
-Martha Burtis
We should be showing people how we survive a situation like this by embracing the human condition.
-Martha Burtis
We really need to keep broader humanity in mind right now and not be myopic in our vision.
-Robin DeRosa
Resources Mentioned
Values-Centered Instructional Planning, by Robin DeRosa on Inside Higher Ed
ACE Framework
Cooperative Games from Lillian Nave
Peaceable Kingdom Race to the Treasure! Award Winning Beat the Ogre Cooperative Game for Kids*
Hoot Owl Hoot Board Game*
Think UDL Podcast with Lillian Nave - Transcripts, Taxonomies, and Podcast Websites with Bonni Stachowiak
JackBox Games
CoLab
Rule of 2s: Keeping it Simple as You Go Remote for COVID19
Bill Dogterom on Teaching in Higher Ed - The Shared Journey
Laura Gibbs on Twitter
Summer 2020 Blogging Fest, by Laura Gibbs
Peter Kaufman on Episode 230: Teaching with Compassion
Article about Missouri Western State University Faculty Cuts in The Chronicle
F the Bread. The Bread Is Over., by Sabrina Orah Mark
Linda’s Tweet About Missouri Western State University Faculty Cuts
“I didn't even know that my pre-spring break class would be my last lecture, maybe ever.” - Linda Oakleaf
5/28/2020 • 44 minutes, 4 seconds
Learning in a Time of Pandemic
Remi Kalir shares about teaching and learning in a time of pandemic on episode 310 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The so-called “normal” that existed did not work for many students to begin with.
-Remi Kalir
We will privilege care.
-Remi Kalir
The challenges facing every institution are going to be different.
-Remi Kalir
Resources Mentioned
Digital Pedagogy Lab 2020
Inquiry-based learning
Ungrading
Open Letter to Learning Design & Technology Students at CU Denver
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande*
Professional Learning in a Time of Pandemic
5/21/2020 • 40 minutes, 37 seconds
Hyflex Learning
David Rhoads shares about his doctoral research on hyflex learning on episode 309 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I would have wished that I would have had some of the flexibility that we are now trying to design in our university.
-David Rhoads
Every type of professor and every type of course needs to be reevaluated towards learning outcomes.
-David Rhoads
Resources
Hybrid-Flexible (Hyflex) Course Design: Implementing student-directed hybrid classes, Edited by Brian J. Beatty
Maria Anderson - A New Lens to Support Learning Outcomes - ESIL Lens
PKM
Qwickly Attendance Pro
Jay Howard - Civil Engagement
The HyFlex Option for Instruction if Campuses Open This Fall, by Doug Lederman via Inside Higher Ed
SaneBox
5/12/2020 • 39 minutes, 21 seconds
EdTech’s Role in Helping Students Feel Engaged, Safe, and Productive
Ryan Straight shares ways to use EdTech to help students feel engaged, connected, safe, and productive on episode 308 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
Leave the LMS to deal with the management portion of things and bring the community elsewhere, because that is where the engagement comes from.
-Ryan Straight
You have to be engaged first.
-Ryan Straight
The number one thing that I want students to do is be a person rather than just a username.
-Ryan Straight
Pedagogy comes first. The tool is just a tool.
-Ryan Straight
Resources Mentioned
Inkademic YouTube Channel
Slack
Episode 140: Thinking Outside the LMS with Steven Michels
Steven’s video on organizing a class structure in Slack
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain*
Ken Bain on Teaching in Higher Ed: What the Best College Teachers Do
Chris Gilliard
Chris Gilliard on Teaching in Higher Ed
5/7/2020 • 38 minutes, 17 seconds
Commitment to Change
Dale Hoffman shares about a commitment to change on episode 307 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It took me about 5 years to get comfortable talking in front of an audience of people.
-Dale Hoffman
Trust is important.
-Dale Hoffman
Students need to like you before they can accept the idea that their education is relevant to you.
-Dale Hoffman
We need to make the prison experience a transformational one.
-Dale Hoffman
Resources Mentioned
Experienced educator revives her classroom to meet the needs of 21st century students
Dr. Hoffman’s Speech at Folsom Lake College ACUE Pinning Ceremony
Folsom Lake College Program Facilitator Caleb Fowler on Partnering and Advocating for a Stronger Workforce: Remarks from the CCCAOE Spring Conference 2019
Commitment to Change blog on ACUE’s site
Little House on the Prarie
7 Habits of Highly Effective People*
Her grandpa did the Lindberg trial
Brené Brown’s Podcast: Unlocking Us
Brené on Anxiety, Calm + Over/Under-Functioning
4/30/2020 • 37 minutes, 13 seconds
Agency, Learning, and Purpose
Martha Burtis shares about agency, learning, and purpose on episode 306 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Make space for people to find their agency.
-Martha Burtis
There is so much trauma among our students that we don't realize.
-Martha Burtis
We need to rethink the opportunities we give students to demonstrate what they know.
-Martha Burtis
All of us can probably tell stories of that teach we had who changes our life.
-Martha Burtis
Resources Mentioned
Drive: The Surprising Truth Behind What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink*
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
Video: Drive - The Surprising Truth Behind What Motivates Us
Twitter thread by Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
Domain of One’s Own
A Brief History of Domain of One’s Own
UMW Blogs
Reclaim Hosting
DS106
Alan Levine
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein *
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, by William Bridges*
CoLab Website
Website for Martha’s Course
Resources From an Ungrading Workshop
University as a Wicked Problem
4/23/2020 • 45 minutes, 42 seconds
Inspiration, Failures, and Everything in Between
David White and Jose Bowen share about inspiration, failures and everything in between on episode 305 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The current situation has really brought people together.
-David White
Whilst it is difficult times, it has also been exhilarating.
-David White
I'm really hopeful that we are forming working relationships that we can carry on with through this.
-David White
This is ultimately the time to rethink what we do.
-Jose Bowen
Resources Mentioned
A theme song, movie, or book
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel* (José)
Groundhog Day (Bonni)
The Association of Jesse James Soundtrack (Dave)
A tool
MERLOT Teaching and Learning Mini Site (José)
Digital Calendars and Analog Planners* (Bonni)
The Web; No More Nails Household Wood Glue* (Dave)
A Failure/Struggle
Cognitive Bandwidth (José)
Beginner’s Mind (Bonni)
Transition From Work to Home (Dave)
A Source of Inspiration
The Garden; Social Media (José)
Jen Heemstra (Bonni)
Seeing the Best in Other People (Dave)
A Challenge
Put Students First (José)
Shift the Focus to What’s Possible (Bonni)
Trust Our Students (Dave)
A Hope
We Use This as a Moment for Revitalization (José)
More of a Sense of Our Collective Selves (Bonni)
The Erosion of Individualism (Dave)
4/16/2020 • 38 minutes, 14 seconds
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Kevin Gannon shares about his book - Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto on episode 304 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Hope is embodied in practice.
-Kevin Gannon
Because I have hope, I cannot abide by the status quo because I know what could be, not just what should be.
-Kevin Gannon
“I had to realize that treating all students equally was not the same thing as treating all students equitably.”
-Kevin Gannon in Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Free speech is often weaponized against marginalized groups.
-Kevin Gannon
Resources Mentioned
Locus of Control
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin Gannon
Kevin Gannon on Episode 112 of Teaching in Higher Ed: Radical Hope
Kevin Gannon on Episode 52 of Teaching in Higher Ed: Respect in the Classroom
4/9/2020 • 44 minutes, 27 seconds
Critical Pedagogy in STEM
Rissa Sorensen-Unruh and Sean Michael Morris discuss critical pedagogy in STEM on episode 303 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Critical pedagogy sort of insists on a human connection in teaching and learning.
-Sean Michael Morris
Active learning and critical pedagogy have a lot of overlap.
-Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
I’ve always felt that critical pedagogy itself is very flexible and has to be able to grow and change with the times, with technology, with audiences, and with our new awareness of social justice.
-Sean Michael Morris
Learning is really their journey. We can go together and I can be part of that…. But in the journey, itself, I’m a bystander.
-Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
Resources Mentioned
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), by Susan D. Blum*
Steely Dan
Muddiest point
Laura Gogia
Maha Bali
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Paulo Freire
bell hooks
Fracturing the Real-Self↔Fake-Self Dichotomy: Moving Toward “Crystallized” Organizational Discourses and Identities, by Sarah J. Tracy, Angela Trethewey
Henry Giroux
The Human Work of Higher Education Pedagogy, by Jesse Stommel
Virtually Connecting
4/2/2020 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
OpenEd and EdTech Reflections
Tannis Morgan reflects on OpenEd and EdTech on episode 302 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think it’s important to approach things as fun.
-Tannis Morgan
What is your purpose to migrate towards open?
-Tannis Morgan
If you want open ed practices, you need open tools.
-Tannis Morgan
It is not the outcome, it is the doing part.
-Tannis Morgan
Resources Mentioned
UDG Agora
Mural UDG
Exploration in the EdTech World
2 Minute Tools
femedtech
IndigenousX
OpenETC
Goodreads
Tannis’ Paintings in Her Year in Review Post
3/26/2020 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
Positive Work-Life Spillover
Andrew Stenhouse shares about positive work-life spillover on episode 301 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We spend more of our waking hours at work than we do anyplace else.
-Andrew Stenhouse
There is always a fine line between engagement and burning ourselves out.
-Andrew Stenhouse
When we have control over our rhythm, that is where we tend to thrive.
-Andrew Stenhouse
If we are more engaged at work, we bring that positive energy, dedication, and sense of accomplishment back into our family life.
-Andrew Stenhouse
Resources Mentioned
Life-Design Counseling Manual, Mark L. .Savickas
The Happenstance Learning Theory, John D. Krumboltz
Prof Michael Leiter
Christina Maslach
How work spills over into the relationship: Self‐control matters
Examining the “Neglected Side of the Work-Family Interface”: Antecedents of Positive and Negative Family-to-Work Spillover
Elianne F. Van Steenbergen
Daphne Pedersen Stevens
Krista Lynn Minnottee
Susan E. Mannon
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi*
3/19/2020 • 37 minutes, 50 seconds
A Curious Milestone
Bonni Stachowiak celebrates a curious milestone on episode 300 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When you burn to know what comes next, you are feeling curious.
-Sara Rose Cavanagh in The Spark of Learning
Curiosity is an essential part of the way human beings learn and it always has been.
-Josh Eyler in How Humans Learn
Everybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.
-Karina Garbezi in Episode #246
Resources Mentioned
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Resources Page for Tarleton State University Keynote
The Productive Online and Offline Professor
Dave Stachowiak's High School Chemistry Teacher
Joe Hoyle's Accounting Mysteries and Puzzles
Meeting Owl Pro
Zoom
The spark of learning energizing the college classroom with the science of emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh for West Virginia University Press*
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching , by Josh Eyler for West Virginia University Press*
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang for Jossey-Bass*
Solar Warriors: Cal State East Bay Solar Suitcase Program Partners with Native American Tribes, Organizations Nationwide, by Natalie Fuelner for EastBayToday
Lighting up the night one solar suitcase at a time, by Darin Moriki for The Mercury News
Episode 135: The Spark of Learning with Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Episode 204: The Spark of Learning Reprise with Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Episode 16: Biology, the Brain, and Learning with Josh Eyler
Episode 231: How Humans Learn with Josh Eyler
Episode 164: Setting Up Students for Success from the Start with Joe Hoyle
Episode 66: Making Challenging Subjects Fun with Ainissa Ramirez
Episode 42: Mixing It Up in Our Teaching with Bonni Stachowiak
Episode 246: Teaching STEM for Social Impact with Karina Garbesi and Erik Helgren
How Teddy Svornous Uses MindNode to Plan Classes
3/12/2020 • 34 minutes, 47 seconds
Growing Up Open
Amanda Coolidge talks about open education and growing up open on episode 299 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is nothing ever static, it is always growing or building or changing.
-Amanda Coolidge
Change builds resilience in people.
-Amanda Coolidge
What we are trying to do is create a more equitable society.
-Amanda Coolidge
Resources Mentioned
I’ve Been Everywhere | Johnny Cash
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, by William Bridges
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges
The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments, by William Bridges*
Blackbird | The Beatles
Imagine | John Lennon
Jesse Stommel
Code Switch Podcast: Books for Your Mind, Belly, and Soul
Sabia Prescott
BCcampus OpenEd
3/5/2020 • 33 minutes, 5 seconds
Restoring a Love of Reading
David Peña-Guzmán discusses how to help rediscover the joy of reading on episode 298 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It all began with a realization that it was not just my students, but also me who were struggling with reading.
-David Peña-Guzmán
I began to notice the extent to which my own reliance on technology was getting in the way of my reading.
-David Peña-Guzmán
My students’ lives are infinitely more complex than I could ever imagine.
-David Peña-Guzmán
Resources Mentioned
Move Over, Laptop Ban.
The Reading Experiment
2/27/2020 • 42 minutes, 23 seconds
Transformative Learning Experiences for Teachers and Students
Christina Zambrano-Varghese and Marcus Flax shares about transformative learning experiences on episode 297 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You can get burnt out but when you get into a classroom where it is more of a community feeling, it is a lot easier to participate, think, and do your best.
-Marcus Flax
I was engaging with the information rather than just trying to study it.
-Marcus Flax
I’ve come to see how critical the first day of class is.
-Christina Zambrano-Varghese
I think about the main takeaway I want my students to get out of a class.
-Christina Zambrano-Varghese
Resources Mentioned
ACUE
Black Doctoral Network
Social media, addiction, and the fear of missing out
Changemakers: Rutgers University–Newark Leading the Way for Student Success
Rutgers University-Newark Faculty Receive National Credential in Teaching Excellence
The P3 Collaboratory at Rutgers University-Newark
2/20/2020 • 40 minutes, 25 seconds
Toward Cruelty-Free Syllabi
Matthew Cheney describes Cruelty-Free Syllabi on episode 296 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of my work, a lot of my career, and a lot of the moments that were most tense were moments where I had forgotten to trust students.
-Matthew Cheney
Respect students as human beings.
-Matthew Cheney
Students don’t enter a classroom immediately trusting a teacher.
-Matthew Cheney
We get used to a bureaucratic academic language that we oftentimes just inherit .
-Matthew Cheney
Resources Mentioned
David Rhoads - hyflex learning
Jesse Stommel
Opening a Syllabus
Cruelty-Free Syllabi
Radical Open Syllabi
Why My Students Design the Syllabus #fight4edu, by Cathy Davidson
Extreme Makeover: Pedagogy Edition, by Robin DeRosa
Ungrading Workshop Resources
Sara Goldrick-Rab
2/13/2020 • 38 minutes, 23 seconds
Online Engagement Through Digital PowerUps
Travis Thurston shares how to engage learners with digital powers on episode 295 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The virtual classroom doesn’t necessarily signal to students how the interaction is going to take place.
-Travis Thurston
It is really important for our learners to know why we are having them engage in something.
-Travis Thurston
Resources Mentioned
Digital PowerUps Scaffolds and Hashtags to Empower Higher-Order and Humanized Student Engagement in Online Discussions, By Travis N Thurston
5-minute Recap of Travis’ 2017 Presentation on Digital PowerUps
Pumpin' Up with Hans & Franz - SNL
Renegade Leadership, by Brad Gustafson
Young Girl-Old Woman Illusion
Everything is a Remix
Everything is a Remix: Part 3 - The Elements of Creativity
Sample PowerUps
Sample Discussion PowerUp Prompt
Sample Digital PowerUp Discussion Post
Sample Student Post with Create
2/6/2020 • 37 minutes, 24 seconds
25 Years of EdTech
Martin Weller on episode 294 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Groups who are marginalized in society are even more marginalized and persecuted online.
-Martin Weller
Resources Mentioned
25 Years of EdTech, by Martin Weller
GO-GN network
EdTechie.Net
The Battle for Open (2014)
The Digital Scholar (2011)
Phallogocentrism
MOOC - massive open online course
BBSs - bulletin board systems
Hyperlinks
Stephen Downes
George Siemens
Constructivism
1/30/2020 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
Inclusive Practices Through Digital Accessibility
Christina Moore discusses inclusive practices through digital accessibility on episode 293 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to make sure that our classrooms are places that students can come as they are and be appreciated for the experiences and strengths that they bring.
-Christina Moore
Our web environments can be wonderful places of accessibility.
-Christina Moore
Resources Mentioned
Digital Accessibility for Faculty page
Digital Accessibility Quick Note for Faculty
Digital Accessibility Checklist
How We Do Things Differently Because of Digital Accessibility
Universal Design for Learning and Digital Accessibility: Compatible Partners or a Conflicted Marriage? By Judy Ableser and Christina Moore for EDUCAUSE
Rehabilitation Act
Often-consulted guidelines - WCAG 2.0 AA
Dan Arnold and Nick Bongers Present Workshops with Christina
Add Closed Captions or Subtitles in PowerPoint
Present Slides with Captions in Google Slides
The Productive Online and Offline Professor*
1/23/2020 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
From Weeding Out to Belonging
From Weeding Out to Belonging with Ana Araya-Anchetta, Mar-Elise Hill, and Flower Darby on episode 292 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I pivoted that semester from focusing so much on me giving a lecture to what the students need.
-Mar-Elise Hill
A challenge builds you up.
-Ana Araya-Anchetta
In order to be impactful in helping faculty, we must cultivate trust.
-Flower Darby
Resources Mentioned
ESIL: A Learning Lens for the Digital Age
Concept Mapping
Episode 47 with Todd Zakrajsek on Metacognition
1/16/2020 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
Learning Myths and Realities
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Quotes from the episode
This was a great opportunity to focus people’s ideas on and get them thinking in a different way on the diversity of learners.
-Michelle Miller
We remember more when we think of something in terms of its meaning or its relevance to ourselves.
-Michelle Miller
Resources Mentioned
Michelle’s sources and suggested reading
Reflection questions
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking, Pam A. Mueller, Daniel M. Oppenheimer
How Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard for Note-Taking? A Replication and Extension of Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014), Kayla Morehead
Retrieval practice
Minds Online, by Michelle D. Miller
ChemVR, Virtual Reality Learning Tool
Digital natives vs immigrants | Visitors vs residents | David White
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle
Setting boundaries in your syllabus, by Robert Talbert
Three things to leave off of your syllabus, by Robert Talbert
Esme Erdynast and Dejah Yansen
1/9/2020 • 40 minutes, 36 seconds
The Productive Online and Offline Professor
Bonni Stachowiak shares about her new book - The Productive Online and Offline Professor on episode 290 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
In terms of productivity, we really have to make these systems work for us.
-Bonni Stachowiak
If you can proactively create the space and systems before it hits the breaking point, it opens up the doors to do so much more and enjoy the journey so much more.
-Dave Stachowiak
One of the ways I think I avoid burnout and still am passionate and joyful about the work that I am privileged to get to do is because I have that margin.
-Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide, by Bonni Stachowiak*
Full Focus Planner* (affiliate link)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, by Stephen Covey*
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen*
Episode 34 with Natalie Houston - Practical Productivity
Episode 93 with Natalie Houston - Strength Through Habits
Essentialism: The Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown
Michael Hyatt Productivity Tips (including the big three)
“With creativity, open loops are precious gifts, incubating solutions to creative problems in the background”
How Open Loops Can Lead You to More Aha Moments
Find Your Creative Groove, by Todd Henry for Harvard Business Review
Coaching for Leaders (Dave’s podcast)
1/2/2020 • 35 minutes, 3 seconds
Syllabus Resources
Angela Jenks on episode 289 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The farther you get in a field, the more differently you read.
-Angela Jenks
Looking for open education resources is always good, no matter what field you are in.
-Angela Jenks
I think the most important thing is thinking about the syllabus from a student's perspective.
-Angela Jenks
Resources Mentioned
Angela Jenks, UCI anthropology, earns an Academic Senate award for teaching in a field she almost didn’t pursue
Angela’s Twitter thread about syllabi
What information to include in syllabus?
Creating Your Syllabus from University of Michigan
When will your class meet?
Generic Syllabus Maker from Caleb McDaniel
Remember the holidays
Holiday tool from the University of Iowa
How much reading should you assign?
Course Workload Estimator from Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence
How much do the books/course materials cost?
Open access textbooks
Suny - open textbooks
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
University of California Luminos
How many works are written by women, people of color, or other marginalized authors?
Resources for decanonizing anthropology
Is your syllabus accessible?
Accessible Syllabus website
Zoë Wool
Conduct a more detailed self-assessment of inclusion in your syllabus and course design with this survey
Inclusion By Design: Survey Your Syllabus and Course Design
Include a statement on access and inclusion
Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements
Include a basic needs statement
Basic Needs Security and the Syllabus, by Sara goldrick-Rab
Give a quiz on your syllabus, or make it interactive
Interactive Syllabus from Angela Jenks
Interactive Syllabus from George F. McHendry, Jr.
Perusall
Qualtrix
Hypothesis
12/26/2019 • 37 minutes, 4 seconds
Academia Next
Bryan Alexander shares about his book Academia Next on episode 288 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
“I’m happy to be as open as possible because that makes my work better."
-Bryan Alexander
Resources Mentioned
Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE)
A Rape in Cyberspace, by Julian Dibbell
Gamergate
‘Ousted’ From Academe, Steven Salaita Says He’s Driving a School Bus to Make Ends Meet, by Emma Pettit for The Chronicle of Higher Education
SPARC*
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, by Adrian Johns*
LEGO story AR
FlipGrid augmented reality
Google maps augmented reality
Pokemon GO
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Bone Hall
Academia Next, by Bryan Alexander*
Episode 272 with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan
Episode 270 with Jaime Hannans
How to Engage Students and Support Learners in Large Classes, by Bonni Stachowiak for EdSurge
Georgetown Maker Hub
12/19/2019 • 45 minutes, 46 seconds
Connected Teaching
Harriet Schwartz shares about her book Connected Teaching on episode 287 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are at their best when they can engage in healthy growth-fostering relationships.
-Harriet L. Schwartz
We have to maintain the standards of our profession and the standards of our discipline but at the same time understand that not everybody’s experience is the same as ours.
-Harriet L. Schwartz
Interactions and relationships are really sites and sources for learning.
-Harriet L. Schwartz
Resources Mentioned
Relational cultural theory Jean Baker
Carol Gilligan
Paulo Friere
Allison Tom
Doug Robertson
Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
12/12/2019 • 40 minutes, 41 seconds
Geeky Pedagogy
Jessamyn Neuhas shares about Geeky Pedagogy on episode 286 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Just because you know a lot about something doesn’t mean you know how to teach it.
-Jessamyn Neuhas
There are a lot of things that student evaluations can’t tell us and a lot of ways that they can be flawed.
-Jessamyn Neuhas
We have to learn how to be effective teachers.
-Jessamyn Neuhas
Teaching and learning is a social interaction. We tend to be underprepared for the social interaction part of our job.
-Jessamyn Neuhas
Resources Mentioned
David Sedaris
Stephen Brookfield
Robin Williams - Dead Poet Society
The Book of Delights: Essays, Ross Gay*
Letter from Gary Larson, asking people to refrain from posting his comics online
The Far Side on Wikipedia
12/5/2019 • 34 minutes, 36 seconds
Reflections on the ESCALA HSI Summer Institute
Janue Johnson and Bonni Stachowiak share our reflections on the ESCALA HSI Summer Institute on episode 285 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
One of the things that stuck out to me was aligning learning activities with learning goals and assessments.
-Janue Johnson
Resources Mentioned
ESCALA Educational Services
And Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou
Using our cultural assets - Laura Rendón
TILT
Luke Wood
Brené brown - clear is kind and unclear is unkind
Classroom observation TOPSE
COPUS
Episode 264 with Melissa Salazar from ESCALA
NameCoach
11/27/2019 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
Process Over Product in Open Education
Arley Cruthers discusses process over product on episode 283 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
One of the things that my coach used to always say is that in order to focus on winning you have to forget about winning.
-Arley Cruthers
If you focus on the process, that is when you are going to have a rich and valuable experience.
-Arley Cruthers
Resources Mentioned
Open pedagogy project report
How Kwantlen Polytechnic University Can Better Support International Students
Pressbooks
Episode 225 on Early Beginnings with Open Textbooks with Matt Rhoads and Kelly Robinette
11/21/2019 • 36 minutes, 38 seconds
Living-Learning Communities That Work
Mimi Benjamin, Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, and Jody E. Jessup-Anger Share about living-learning communities on episode 283 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
Creating community is really important, it can help students feel connected to both the institution and their academic pursuits.
-Mimi Benjamin
Faculty have a really great opportunity to reinforce the identity of the living-learning community in the courses.
-Mimi Benjamin
Resources Mentioned
Living-Learning Communities That Work: A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment (Stylus, 2018)
High Impact Educational Practices (HIPs)
Residential Learning Community (RLC), Living-Learning Community (LLC), and Living-Learning Program (LLP)
https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/elon-statement-on-residential-learning-communities/
John Dewey - responsible for the revisiting of living learning communities.
The experimental college
Laurie Schreiner - research on thriving
Elon University Center for Engaged Learning Statement on Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact Practice
11/14/2019 • 32 minutes, 12 seconds
Using Challenges to Motivate Learners
Michael Wesch shares about using challenges to motivate learners on episode 282 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.
-Michael Wesch
How do you be completely yourself while also being of great value to your students?
-Michael Wesch
Teaching doesn’t just happen in the classroom, it is a constant meditation.
-Michael Wesch
Shared difficulty creates tremendous community.
-Michael Wesch
Resources
ACUE: What Inspired Me to Redesign My Syllabus
ACUE: Developing Fair, Consistent, and Transparent Grading Practices
ACUE: Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
ACUE: Preparing an Effective Syllabus
Homework vs assignments vs challenges
The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life, by Bernard McGrane
Ryan Klataske
The UnThing Experiment
Life101 Podcast
How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half, by Jeff Young for EdSurge
Desirable difficulties - Robert Bjork coined the term.
Episode 277 with Derek Bruff
Video: 10 Tips for Online Teaching Video
Video: Wesch made in Vietnam (his first try at something like this)
Anth101 - Built with Ryan Klataske and Tom Woodward
11/7/2019 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education
Bonni Stachowiak discusses homelessness and housing insecurity in higher education with Rashida Crutchfield and Jennifer Maguire on episode 281 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Some of our students just don't want to be seen as being "in need".
-Rashida Crutchfield
It is that mobility and constant insecurity that is a trauma experience.
-Rashida Crutchfield
It is that fear and stress response that has short and long term impacts on our physiology that manifests in many different ways.
-Rashida Crutchfield
Making the time to do something that is different has given me so much more energy, creativity, and ability to be present to my students.
-Jennifer Maguire
Resources Mentioned
Addressing Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education
Episode 237 with Rashida Crutchfield
FASFA
10/31/2019 • 37 minutes, 15 seconds
The Joy of Teaching – Sustained
Todd Zakrajsek and Bonni Stachowiak discuss how to sustain our joy of teaching on episode 280 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Don’t look for people who are like you, look for the people who are like the people you would like to be.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Schedule time and figure out ways to take care of yourself.
-Todd Zakrajsek
If you understand the importance and value of what you’re doing, it has more value for you.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Teach the students you have.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Teaching the Students We Have, Not the Students We Wish We Had, by Jesse Stommel and Sara Goldrick-Rab
International Teaching Learning Cooperative Network
Educational Blueprints
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education*, by Christopher Emdin
Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
10/24/2019 • 36 minutes, 39 seconds
Applied Creativity for Transformation
Brian LaDuca shares about applied creativity for transformation on episode 279 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do you take the concept of novel new knowledge and those aha moments and give them purpose?
-Brian LaDuca
We have to find a way to find these micro campuses on the campus to create pivots.
-Brian LaDuca
It’s the ambiguity that is the lock and key to the content and the resulting action is the tension.
-Brian LaDuca
The right and wrong answer isn’t nearly as important as your ability to filter down ideas, work together in ideas, and move ideas back into the system again.
-Brian LaDuca
Applied creativity inevitably has to be applied to something.
-Brian LaDuca
Meet the student where they are, in what they do, and how they think.
-Brian LaDuca
Resources Mentioned
University of Dayton Applied Creativity for Transformation
The GEMnasium: A Test Lab for Transdisciplinary Learning
Certificate in Applied Creativity for Transformation
10/17/2019 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Design Thinking in Teaching and Research
Nicola Ulibarri explores Design Thinking in Teaching, Research, and Beyond on episode 274.
Quotes from the episode
Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology that starts from understanding and addressing human needs.
-Nicola Ulibarri
Innovation is a learnable process.
-Nicola Ulibarri
Resources Mentioned
Creativity in Research Website
Stanford d.school
The Four Agreements
Research as Design: Developing Creative Confidence in Doctoral Students Through Design Thinking: Ulibarri, Cravens, Cornelius, Royalty, and Svetina Nabergoj
10/10/2019 • 41 minutes, 44 seconds
Intentional Tech
Derek Bruff discusses his book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching.
Quotes from the episode
We’re learning from and with each other- and that is what I liked to call a learning community.
-Derek Bruff
I love using technology to help students bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the conversation.
-Derek Bruff
There is a different level of student engagement that happens when students know they are writing or creating for the public.
-Derek Bruff
Our pedagogy needs to inform how we use our technology.
-Derek Bruff
We learn better when we encounter new things through multiple modalities.
-Derek Bruff
Resources Mentioned
A Time for Telling, Schwartz & Bransford (1998)
Agile Learning: Derek Bruff’s Blog on Teaching and Learning
Dual-coding Theory
Harold Jarche
Birdclass hashtag on Twitter
10/3/2019 • 38 minutes, 37 seconds
Reaching All Learners Through Innovation and Teaching Excellence, with Edward Leach
Edward Leach shares about Reaching All Learners Through Innovation and Teaching Excellence on episode 276 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There isn’t a lot of focus on what it means to teach at a community college, which is totally different than being at a four-year institution.
-Edward Leach
The most critical aspect of the teaching and learning process are the faculty members in the classroom.
-Edward Leach
Resources Mentioned
NISOD - National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
About NISOD
NISOD and ACUE Collaboration
9/26/2019 • 25 minutes, 58 seconds
How to Write a Book with People You Met on Twitter
Melanie Sage, Nancy Smyth, and Laurel Iverson Hitchcock share how they wrote a book with people they met on Twitter on episode 275 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Twitter had sort of a democratizing impact across our ranks.
—Melanie Sage
What does it mean to be connected as humans across technology?
—Melanie Sage
Technology is just a tool — we’re trying to do relationships like we would in any other space.
—Melanie Sage
Resources Mentioned
Dorlee Michaeli
#swtech - hashtag
Linda Grobman
The Social Work podcast
Jonathan Singer
Dropbox
MindMiester
GoToMeeting
Zoom*
Qualtrics
Twitter
Google Docs
Second Life
Creative Commons license
GroupMe
Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology\*
David Gooblar
Oculus
FlipGrid
Marco Polo
9/19/2019 • 37 minutes, 30 seconds
HIVEMIND
Sarah Cavanagh shares about her new book, HIVEMIND, on episode 274 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We can enter a state of mind in which we join our social partners almost in a collective sort of consciousness.
—Sarah Cavanagh
Our ideas about the world are collectively sourced almost as much as they are individual.
—Sarah Cavanagh
We’re dividing into different camps and I think that’s dangerous.
—Sarah Cavanagh
Resources Mentioned
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion*, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
HIVEMIND: The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World*, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Tressie McMillan Cottom
9/12/2019 • 25 minutes, 12 seconds
Engaging Learners in Large Classes
Bonni Stachowiak shares about engaging learners in large classes on episode 273 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
The act of predicting can enhance our learning.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio* (graphic narrative)
Small Teaching, by James Lang
James Lang's Small Changes in Teaching Series in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Michael J. Sandel
Justice course from Harvard University
Justice videos on YouTube
Michael Wesch
ANTH101: Anthropology for Everyone
Does Course Size Matter?
Class Size in Online Courses: What the Research Says
Chrissy Spencer
Episode 25 with Chrissy Spencer
Active Learning in Introductory Biology (Chrissy Spencer)
CATME Team Maker
POD Network
2019 POD Conference
9/5/2019 • 30 minutes, 5 seconds
Inclusified Teaching Evaluation
Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan share about inclusified evaluation of our teaching on episode 271 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We want structure built into the way we teach, not just in the course design and facilitation.
—Viji Sathy
When we don’t have structure in place, certain people are disadvantaged.
—Viji Sathy
We think students should have a voice … but how that information is used is really important to think about.
—Viji Sathy
How do we actually know that they’re learning what we intend for them to learn?
—Viji Sathy
Resources Mentioned
Inclusified.net
Inclusive Curriculum on ACUE
Inclusified: One Year In
TEval
MCAD
DTH
Satirical piece
Viji's Office hours types info
Kelly's Letters of Recommendation form
TIHE episode 214: On Not Affirming Our Values
TIHE episode 89: The research on course evaluations
8/29/2019 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
The Missing Course by David Gooblar
David Gooblar shares about his new book, The Missing Course*, on episode 279 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The students are the material.
—David Gooblar
We don’t teach material, we teach human beings.
—David Gooblar
It’s less about a technique and more about your mindset.
—David Gooblar
How you think is ten times more important to me than what you think.
—David Gooblar
Resources Mentioned
Pedagogy Unbound: David Gooblar’s Chronicle of Higher Education
The Missing Course* by David Gooblar
8/22/2019 • 41 minutes, 44 seconds
Empathy and Extended Reality
Jaime Hannans shares about empathy and extended reality on episode 270 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I saw I could make a bigger impact if I taught.
—Jaime Hannans
Knowing how to navigate your space is a hurdle when you’re going into a new semester.
—Jaime Hannans
The debriefing is the key area where you can reflect on your learning.
—Jaime Hannans
Resources Mentioned
Extended Reality:
Augmented Reality
360 degree camera
Tripod
ThingLink
Mixed Reality
CSUN Center for Teaching and Learning | SIMPACT
Virtual Reality
Embodied Labs
Computer/headset/hand sensors
INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM Facilitation
AHRQ Healthcare simulation dictionary
openCI - Channel Islands Affordable Learning Solutions
Episode 139: Effective Debriefing Approaches
8/15/2019 • 40 minutes, 54 seconds
Removing Learning Barriers with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Jennifer Pusateri discusses Removing Learning Barriers with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) on episode 269 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We are unintentionally putting barriers in place for certain students.
—Jennifer Pusateri
They were modifying how they taught in the classroom to accommodate the kinds of students they had.
—Jennifer Pusateri
When we have a classroom that’s built around one specific way of teaching we’re leaving people out.
—Jennifer Pusateri
Resources Mentioned
Teaching in Higher Ed episodes about Universal Design for Learning:
Episode 58 with Mark Hofer
Episode 175 Q&A
Episode 227 with Tom Tobin
CAST
About Universal Design for Learning
The UDL Guidelines
UDL Frequently Asked Questions
Present slides with captions in Google Slides
Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint
8/8/2019 • 41 minutes, 7 seconds
Second Year Research and Creative Experience
Christine Renaudin shares about Sonoma State’s Second Year Research & Creative Experience on episode 268 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Model attentive listening, active listening.
—Christine Renaudin
We can enhance each other’s efficiency and creativity by listening, learning, and supporting each other.
—Christine Renaudin
Resources Mentioned
Dr. Renaudin’s Biography
SYRCE Home Page
Schroeder Hall - Green Music Center
Council on Undergraduate Research
8/1/2019 • 32 minutes, 13 seconds
Trickle Down Engagement
Don Saucier discusses trickle-down engagement on episode 267 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Our emotions are absolutely contagious.
—Don Saucier
What we need to do is challenge our students.
—Don Saucier
I tell my students there is nothing more powerful than their voice.
—Don Saucier
Being an expert is not the same as being an excellent teacher.
—Don Saucier
Resources Mentioned
Promoting a Civil Learning Environment
Social Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman*
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain*
Engage the Sage Teaching channel
“Engage the Sage"
Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi*
Teaching in Higher Ed Slack Group
Bonni’s EdSurge advice column
7/25/2019 • 42 minutes, 46 seconds
Experiential Learning Through Healthy Communities
Stephanie Bianco shares about experiential learning through healthy communities on episode 266 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
They’re seeing firsthand with these kids the high need they have.
—Stephanie Bianco
Not having an internship and just hiring someone would be a mistake.
—Stephanie Bianco
Resources Mentioned
CSU, Chico's Center for Healthy Communities (CHC)(https://www.csuchico.edu/chc/%20%0A)
CHC's Primary program- CA Higher Ed CalFresh (aka SNAP) Outreach Contract (with 40+ subciontracting campuses)(https://www.csuchico.edu/calfresh/index.shtml)
CHC's Internship Program(https://www.csuchico.edu/chc/internship-resources/index1.shtml)
Peter Senge Ladder of Inference(https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC91.htm)
7/18/2019 • 38 minutes, 49 seconds
Relentless Serving and Learning
Jianjun Wang describes his Relentless Serving and Learning on episode 265 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is important for us to engage our students and help them create life-changing opportunities and thus make the world a better place.
—Jianjun Wang
Online is still relatively new, but new doesn’t mean it’s bad.
—Jianjun Wang
It’s always important to make sure you don’t just work on things alone.
—Jianjun Wang
Resources Mentioned
SAS Studio
Dr. Wang’s Table 1
Dr. Wang’s Table 2 - videos provided by Professors Carl Lee and Felix Famoye of the Central Michigan University
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
American Statistical Association
Dr. Wang’s Publications
7/11/2019 • 42 minutes, 16 seconds
Serving Hispanic Students
Melissa Salazar shares about serving our Hispanic students on episode 264 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
This is where equity work is being done.
—Melissa Salazar
When people get nervous about not being a good teacher, they push back on it as the students’ fault.
—Melissa Salazar
Whatever we say is a reflection of how we’re thinking and processing things.
—Melissa Salazar
Resources Mentioned
ESCALA
HSI - Hispanic Serving Institutions
7/3/2019 • 45 minutes, 3 seconds
Recipes for Effective Teaching
Elizabeth Barkley shares recipes for effective teaching on episode 263 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?
—Elizabeth Barkley
Teaching and learning is a complex process that involves the interaction of human beings.
—Elizabeth Barkley
We can never go into a classroom with a completely rigid script.
—Elizabeth Barkley
Resources Mentioned
Interactive Lecturing: A Handbook for College Faculty*
Learning Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty\*
Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty\*
Collaborative Learning: A Handbook for College Faculty (2nd Edition)\*
The Joy of Cooking\*
Elizabeth Barkley is an expert consultant for ACUE on the following course modules:
Checking for Student Understanding
Using Active Learning Techniques in Small Groups
Planning an Effective Class Session
ACUE Community article: The Importance of Checking for Student Understanding
6/27/2019 • 31 minutes, 16 seconds
Changing Lives, One Petition (and Class) at a Time
Margaret (Peggy) Stevenson shares how she is Changing Lives, One Petition (and Class) at a Time on episode 262 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It’s always been important to me that the students understand they are meeting an actual need.
—Margaret (Peggy) Stevenson
We don’t just continue to do things, but we also build into the classroom time for reflection.
—Margaret (Peggy) Stevenson
Resources Mentioned
Record Clearance Project
All of Us or None
Justice Studies Courses - Undergraduate - San Jose State University
Record Clearance Project Facebook Page
VITA Orange County
Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf on Episode 101
6/20/2019 • 38 minutes, 18 seconds
Productive Travel
Dave Stachowiak and I share about productive travel on episode 261 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Every time you have somebody on I just feel like there’s something that I’m using in my own work.
—Dave Stachowiak
There’s the tendency for a lot of us in this community to take on too much.
—Dave Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
Instructure conference
ESCALA certification
Sam Houston State University Teaching and Learning Conference
Productive Productivity
Igniting Our Collective Imagination
TripIt
Packing cubes
Dirty clothes bag
Tools for Travel (Robert Talbert’s advice in comments)
Packing list app (PackPoint)
6/13/2019 • 24 minutes, 5 seconds
A shipwreck, a Fakesbook, and a WISH
Zoë Wood shares about a shipwreck, a Fakesbook, and a WISH on episode 260 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Being able to engage with students who are all such unique individuals is a privilege.
—Zoë Wood
I love having the opportunity to see what students create.
—Zoë Wood
Diverse teams actually produce better work.
—Zoë Wood
Practicing to work in a team isn’t always comfortable for students but it’s something we all need to do so we can help tackle these big problems.
—Zoë Wood
Resources Mentioned
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, by Lynda Barry\*
Chris Clark, PhD, Harvey Mudd
Professor Timmy Gambin at the University of Malta
Episode 246: Teaching STEM for Social Impact
Dr. Wood’s Research
Dr. Wood’s Classes
Thesis work of Dr. Wood’s students
International Computing work
Outreach
"Computing for the Interactive Arts" minor
WISH at Cal Poly
Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
Fakesbook: A social networking platform for teaching security and privacy concepts to secondary school students
6/6/2019 • 38 minutes, 19 seconds
Intentional and Transparent Assessment
Natasha Jankowski shares about intentional and transparent assessment on episode 259 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When I’m asking you to do something in my class, I can tell you why I’m asking you to do it.
—Natasha Jankowski
This is much more assessment with and not to students.
—Natasha Jankowski
Transparency for me is more than just posting it somewhere.
—Natasha Jankowski
How can you both share that love and excitement but also instill it in your students?
—Natasha Jankowski
Resources Mentioned
Natasha Jankowski: Making Our Work Intentional and Transparent
Minds Online, by Michelle Miller
Rice Coursse Workload Estimator
Laura Gibbs - Using Padlet to Curate Student Advice to Future Classes
5/30/2019 • 44 minutes, 12 seconds
Paying the Price
Sara Goldrick-Rab shares about Paying the Price on episode 258 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Once I knew, this was a problem I couldn’t unsee.
—Sara Goldrick-Rab
We’re supposed to be doing education for democracy.
—Sara Goldrick-Rab
I’ve had to ask myself, “Is this what I’m uniquely adding value to?”
—Sara Goldrick-Rab
I want to see growth in each of the students over the term — what else do I care about?
—Sara Goldrick-Rab
Resources Mentioned
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream (2016), by Sara Goldrick-Rab*
The Hope Center
Sara Goldrick-Rab’s Website
Sara’s Books
Campus Matters: Paying the Price for The New York Times Conference
It’s Hard to Study if You’re Hungry, by Sara Goldrick-Rab
#RealCollege Hashtag on Twitter
College and University Basic Needs Insecurity: A National #realcollege Survey Report
Universal Design for Learning
Ungrading
Basic Needs Security and the Syllabus, by Sara Goldrick-Rab
The Hope Center Facebook
Sara Goldrick-Rab on Facebook
The Hope Center Instagram
Poverty: The biggest obstacle to higher education
5/23/2019 • 38 minutes, 4 seconds
Engaging Students Using FlipGrid
Ramesh Laungani talks about engaging students using FlipGrid on episode 257 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do we support and amplify those more quiet voices?
—Ramesh Laungani
The typed discussion board doesn’t allow for discussion … there’s no back and forth per se.
—Ramesh Laungani
Resources Mentioned
#flipgridfever
Banking model of education - Paulo Freire
1000 STEM Women Project
5/16/2019 • 39 minutes, 3 seconds
Creating Wicked Students
Paul Hanstedt shares about Creating Wicked Students on episode 256 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If we’re going to face wicked problems, we’d better have wicked competencies.
—Paul Hanstedt
We have to communicate to students what we’re looking for.
—Paul Hanstedt
Constraint can be valuable for creativity.
—Paul Hanstedt
We need to find ways to allow students to take risks.
—Paul Hanstedt
Resources
Paul Hanstedt ACUE Community article: Five Tips for Getting a Good Start on the Semester (and Maybe Even Enjoying Ourselves a Little)
Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, by Paul Hanstedt*
General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty, by Paul Hanstedt*
Wicked the musical
Milgram experiment
AAC&U creativity rubric
Recess Revolution
5/9/2019 • 36 minutes, 51 seconds
AHSIE Conference Reflections
Bonni Stachowiak shares about her experience at the AHSIE Conference on episode 255 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
If you’re going to come to my class, you need to come with purpose and passion.
—Leticia P. Lopez
Resources Mentioned
AHSIE 11th Annual Best Practices Conference | April 14-17, 2019 | Riverside, CA
AHSIE 2019 Program Details
Gina A. Garcia
Decolonizing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Framework for Organizing - Gina Ann Garcia, 2018
Exploring College Students’ Identification with an Organizational Identity for Serving Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Emerging HSI | American Journal of Education: Vol 124, No 2
Episode 123 with Yolanda Flores Niemann on Presumed Incompetent
What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities | Garcia | Association of Mexican American Educators Journal
Microaggressions in the Classroom- YouTube
Microaggression presentation - Google Slides
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
5/2/2019 • 16 minutes
Stop Talking, Start Influencing
Jared Cooney Horvath shares about his book Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick on episode 254 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Don’t try to force your audience to choose between you or your notes.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
You remember what you pay attention to.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
Recall leads to deeper memories.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
If you want to learn anything, you’ve got to be in that sweet spot of stress.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
Resources Mentioned
Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick, by Jared Cooney Horvath*
Episode 72 with Dr. Robert Bjork
Episode 94 with Dr. Pooja Agarwal
LME Global
4/25/2019 • 39 minutes, 4 seconds
Spaces and Places (and Nudges)
Jose Bowen talks about Spaces and Places (and Nudges) on episode 253 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ultimately what we’re trying to do is create self-regulated learners.
—Jose Bowen
We know that students are digitally distracted all the time — this is not a classroom problem.
—Jose Bowen
Your learning management system is all about nudges.
—Jose Bowen
Make your classroom so interesting … that students don’t want to check Facebook.
—Jose Bowen
Resources Mentioned
Jose Bowen is an expert consultant for ACUE on the following course modules:
Using Student Achievement and Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
Engaging Underprepared Students
ACUE Community article: Using Feedback From Students to Improve Your Teaching
Jose Bowen on Teaching in Higher Ed:
Episode 30
Episode 136
Books:
Teaching Naked, by José Antonio Bowen*
Teaching Naked Techniques, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson*
4/18/2019 • 40 minutes, 25 seconds
Ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development
Maha Bali and Autumm Caines share about ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development on episode 252 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of the faculty development I offer is very different from my own professional development.
—Maha Bali
What’s hospitable in one context isn’t hospitable in another.
—Autumm Caines
Resources Mentioned
A call for promoting ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development via connected learning, by Maha Bali and Autumm Caines
Equity Unbound
TIHE #223: But You Can't Do That in a STEM Course with Karen Cangialosi
DigPINS.org
Virtually Connecting
Hypothes.is
Dual-pathway MOOCs
Dual-layer MOOCs
Matt Crosslin’s website
Twitter Journal Club
Marginal Syllabus
Not Yet-Ness
Intentionally-equitable Hospitality - new article coming soon
Social Justice & Hybrid workshop opportunities at #oer19
Mozilla Open Leaders
Rebecca Hogue
CCC Digital Learning Day keynote
“Imagination of how things could be otherwise is central to the initiation of the transformative process”. (Mezirow, 2006/2018 p. 119).
4/10/2019 • 43 minutes, 43 seconds
Annotating the Marginal Syllabus
Remi Kalir discusses annotating the marginal syllabus on episode 252 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Annotation is a cultural practice. It’s a social practice. It’s collaborative.
—Remi Kalir
I think it’s important that we promote social collaborative activity.
—Remi Kalir
Resources Mentioned
Marginal Syllabus
2018-19 Marginal Syllabus
Hypothes.is
CROWDLAAERS
Annotate Your Syllabus, by Remi Kalir
4/4/2019 • 42 minutes, 35 seconds
One in a Million
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak and guests celebrate a million downloads of Teaching in Higher Ed on episode 250 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If I want my students to take risks and not be afraid to fail, then I need to take risks and not be afraid to fail.
—Kevin Gannon
We need people like us, and people not like us, and we need access to them lots of the time.
—Peter Newbury
Resources Mentioned
Linda Oakleaf’s one in a million - Episode 183 with Robin DeRosa
An episode that changed your mind about something? Episode 81 with Stephanie Vie
Christina Moore’s one in a million - Episode 209 with Asao Inoue
An episode that made you laugh? Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield and any episode featuring Todd Zakrajsek
An episode you learned a lot from? Episode 130 with Chris Gilliard
An embarrassing moment from the podcast? Episode 36 with Ken Bain (see also Episode 100 - the Failure Episode)
Ian Wolf’s one in a million - Episode 112 - A Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto with Kevin Gannon
An episode that changed how you approach your own learning? Episode 53 with Peter Newbury
Erin Whitteck’s one in a million - Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
Isabeau Iqbal’s one in a million - Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
An episode that made you cry? Episode 165 on course evaluations
Josh Eyler’s one in a million - Episode 230 - Teaching with Compassion with Peter Kaufman
Episode 9 with Crystal Renfro and Mary Axford
Crystal Renfro on Twitter
Academic PKM - Chrystal Renfro
Favorite moment from an episode? Episode 141 with Clint Smith III
A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your teaching? Stephen Brookfield
The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield*
A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your life? James Lang
Jeff Young - one in a million - Episode 217 with Jesse Stommel on ungrading
An episode that continues to inspire you? Episode 215 with Bryan Dewsbury
3/28/2019 • 41 minutes, 20 seconds
Mindset, Metacognition, and Math
Silvia Heubach discusses mindset, metacognition, and math on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
The more you can make stories and connections and reasons, the better it allows the student to learn.
—Silvia Heubach
Learning happens when students do work.
—Silvia Heubach
When you try a new methodology … you have to sell it to the students.
—Silvia Heubach
The teacher is a coach that can help you, but you need to do the practice.
—Silvia Heubach
Resources Mentioned
The Impact of Faculty Attitudes About Intelligence
CSLA Math Professor Receives CSU Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award
First in the World program
Silvia Heubach’s website
Teach Students How to Learn, by Saundra McGuire*
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck*
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent*
Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, by Robert Talbert*
3/21/2019 • 30 minutes, 28 seconds
Surveying Social and Open Learning
Debbie Baff talks about surveying social and open learning on episode 248 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
All of the different things I’ve done have led me to this place now.
—Debbie Baff
The value of an open digital badge is not the badge itself — it’s the learning behind it.
—Debbie Baff
Resources Mentioned
OER Wales Cymru
OER15
Catherine Cronin on Episode 152
#LTHEchat
Association of Learning Technology
Virtually Connecting
Mozilla backpack
Sue Beckingham
Chrissi Nerantzi
Eleanor Beer
Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam\*
https://bryanmmathers.com/
https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/
The Sketchnote Army
The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking, by Mike Rohde \*
Paper Fiftythree
Procreate
Adobe Sketch
Sheila MacNeill
Sue Beckingham reflects on #SocMedHE18
3/14/2019 • 45 minutes, 10 seconds
Reclaiming the Narrative on the Value of Higher Education
Eddie Watson talks about reclaiming the narrative on the value of higher education on episode 247 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We have a unique opportunity to … reclaim the narrative on the value of higher education.
—C. Edward Watson
You learn things in the classroom — can you make those things work in a real-world setting?
—C. Edward Watson
Resources Mentioned
AAC&U Report - Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work
How the Great Recession changed the job market forever for college grads in The Washington Post
Falling Confidence in Higher Ed, by Scott Jaschik
The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy, by Lisa B. Kahn
Underemployment: Research on the Long-Term Impact on Careers
Handshake’s Annual Report | 2018 - Campus to Career
AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
3/7/2019 • 37 minutes, 26 seconds
Teaching STEM for Social Impact
Erik Helgren and Karina Garbesi share about teaching STEM for social impact on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Everybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.
—Karina Garbesi
People want to help you when you’re doing something for somebody else.
—Karina Garbesi
Follow your passions.
—Erik Helgren
Resources Mentioned
We Care Solar
Derek Bruff on Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 71
A Time for Telling, by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford
Energy Sticks
YouTube video on the Social Impact Solar Program’s Hoopa Native American Solar Suitcase Workshop, Summer 2018
YouTube video interviewing Helgren and Garbesi after the first pilot year in 2015-16
The True Cost
We Share Solar Program
Transformative sustainability learning: a united pedagogy of head, hands and heart
Sunrise Movement
Articles on the Social Impact Solar Program:
Dossetti, Krista, Light After Dark, East Bay Today, Article, September 1, 2016.
Bloom, Jonathan, Hayward students ‘invention’ will help power schools in Africa, ABC 7 news article and video: February 10, 2017.
Fuelner, Natalie, Rising in the East, East Bay Today, Article, pg. 28 - 33, Fall 2016.
Moriki, Darin, Hayward: Lighting up the night one solar suitcase at a time, Mercury News, Feb 24, 2017.
Fuelner, Natalie, Solar Warriors: Cal State East Bay Solar Suitcase Program partners with Native American tribes, organizations nationwide, East Bay Today.
2/28/2019 • 38 minutes, 55 seconds
The Fullness of our Humanity as Teacher and Student
Dr. Terri Jett discusses the fullness of our humanity as a teacher and student on episode 245 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’m trying to understand what the students are seeking themselves.
—Terri Jett
What I was learning was so deeply personal.
—Terri Jett
Make a statement, even if it’s small.
—Terri Jett
Don’t just sit there and take it — do something about it.
—Terri Jett
Resources Mentioned
Student course evaluations
Have someone come observe your classes
The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics, by Schubert, Dye, and Zeigler*
The Gist Podcast: Stop Going Nuclear
Episode #217 with Jesse Stommel: How to Ungrade
Alice Walker
2/21/2019 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
Create Online Mashups that Ignite Curiosity
Michael Britt describes how to create online mashups that ignite curiosity on episode 244 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
What do I want my students to see first?
—Michael Britt
First I want to hear what the students think.
—Michael Britt
Resources Mentioned
Michael’s podcast
IFTTT
Zapier
Microsoft Flow
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain\*
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Small Teaching, by James Lang\*
ThingLink
Customize Youtube Video Start time End Time
PollEverywhere
A critical thinking exercise with Koko the Gorilla (uses Wakelet, embedded video and Google Forms)
Rubber (tire movie)
Google Forms
Padlet
Wakelet
H5P.org
CrazyTalk
Wordle
Visme
An online exercise to help students improve their study skills (uses Google Forms, Slides, and Spreadsheets)
What did B.F. Skinner Think about Parenting? (A combination of Thinglink, SoundCloud and Wordle)
Mental Illness or Demonic Possession? (a mashup of Visme, Vimeo and Google Forms)
2/14/2019 • 30 minutes, 33 seconds
The Writer’s Practice
John Warner shares about his new book, The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing on episode 243 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students came with so many preconceived notions of what an essay was.
—John Warner
The definition of a writer is simply somebody who writes.
—John Warner
There’s no reason not to trust students and their own experience of the world.
—John Warner
Resources Mentioned
The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, by John Warner*
Episode 172: Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
Episode 233: Why They Can’t Write
Marlene M. Preston at Virginia Tech
Clint Smith’s tweet about used books
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner*
‘Dreyer’s English’ Is for Everybody, by John Warner on Inside Higher Ed*
The author you need to read now: Tressie McMillan Cottom, by John Warner
Abebooks - used books
2/7/2019 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Using Virtual Labs and Immersive Reality to Enhance Student Learning
Kambiz Hamadani discusses using virtual labs and immersive reality to enhance student learning on episode 242 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Faculty have many more communication lines open to them, and why not use them?
—Kambiz Hamadani
One of the challenges I think we all face … is finding ways to deal with that diversity of background.
—Kambiz Hamadani
You have to very slowly wade into the pool of course redesign.
—Kambiz Hamadani
Resources Mentioned
E-portfolio 2016-2017 Course Redesign with Technology for General Biochemistry lecture course using and assessing the impact of Virtual Biochemistry Labs
E-portfolio 2017-2018 Course Redesign with Technology for General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Lecture/Lab course where Dr. Hamadani developed, used, and assessed the impact of combining virtual labs and customized take-home lab kits
Recent Nature Outlooks article highlighting use and assessment of virtual biochemistry labs for teaching
VoiceThread
Webinar put together by Labster, Inc. on usage of their virtual lab tools
Video Summary of course redesign of General Biochemistry course using Labster, Inc. Virtual Labs
Labster Blog on Hamadani’s use of their virtual lab tools
ACS presentation slides detailing my course redesigns
Article detailing the remaining divisions between physical and virtual lab technologies and ways to make the best of all possible worlds
Bonni’s 2017 Tech Someday/Maybe List
Getting Things Done by David Allen
1/31/2019 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
Inclusive Pedagogy
Sylvia Kane shares about inclusive pedagogy on episode 241 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to start examining our own unconscious biases.
—Sylvia Kane
You have to start taking risks.
—Sylvia Kane
We are not teaching content — we are teaching students.
—Sylvia Kane
It’s a process — we are always learning.
—Sylvia Kane
Resources Mentioned
Excelencia in Education
Episode #199 with Sierra Smith
Banking model of education
1/24/2019 • 25 minutes, 55 seconds
Small Teaching Online
Flower Darby shares about Small Teaching Online on episode 240 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Compared to how long we’ve been teaching in person, online learning is in its infancy.
—Flower Darby
Oftentimes we see poor examples and we think that’s how it’s done.
—Flower Darby
We can enter into deep engagement with people online — we just need to bring some of those practices into the classroom.
—Flower Darby
Resources Mentioned
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, by Flower Darby and James Lang
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang
Walking a Mile in Our Students’ Shoes by Flower Darby on ACUE
ECAR Study of Faculty and Information Technology, 2017
Flower Darby’s Website
1/17/2019 • 33 minutes, 12 seconds
Becoming an Authentic Online Teacher
Michelle Pacansky-Brock shares how to become an authentic online teacher on episode 239 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
People, by nature, don’t like to recognize our faults.
—Michelle Pacansky-Brock
There’s such a rich array of data that the students can share with us if we let them in.
—Michelle Pacansky-Brock
It’s all about connection in the classroom.
—Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Resources Mentioned
Dr. Beth Harris on Smart History
Professors Share: The Moment That Changed the Way I Teach - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Voice Thread
The Slow Professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber*
Humanizing Online Teaching & Learning course
Catalog of courses from ONE
CanInnovate Conference
Marvin Patton presents Promoting Equity with EdPuzzle and Canvas Mastery Paths
CCC Digital Learning Day
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande*
1/10/2019 • 40 minutes, 35 seconds
Connecting with Students Inside and Outside the Classroom
Zhaoshuo Jiang shares ways to connect with students inside and outside the classroom on episode 238 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Why not use the technology that’s available to students?
—Zhaoshuo Jiang
The main goal is to not only help the student inside the classroom, but also outside the classroom.
—Zhaoshuo Jiang
Education could be a luxury to a lot of students — that’s why I look into more affordable options.
—Zhaoshuo Jiang
Resources Mentioned
Engineering professor’s innovative teaching ideas garner award
Mobile Remote Shake Table Laboratory - SFSU
RSTLab Users
ENGR 309 - Reaction
AIM - Zhaoshuo Jiang
NSF REU Program - Integrated Academia-Industry in Smart Structure Technologies
YouCanBook.Me
Zoom.us
Double Robotics Robot
1/3/2019 • 32 minutes, 42 seconds
Meeting the Needs of Our Students
Rashida Crutchfield discusses meeting the needs of our students on episode 237 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The gap between what financial aid covers and the actual cost of higher education is getting wider.
—Rashida Crutchfield
Instability over a long period of time creates trauma.
—Rashida Crutchfield
Resources Mentioned
Student Emergency and Wellness Program at CSULB
Swipe Out Hunger
Basic Needs Study
Rashida’s Faculty Profile
Video Profile of Rashida’s work
1 in 10 students struggling with homelessness
CSULB Professor discusses research on food and housing insecurity across CSU system
12/27/2018 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds
Arts-based Studio Pedagogy
Hakan Ozcelik shares about his arts-based studio pedagogy on episode 236 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Once people start being perfectionists, they are less likely to take feedback from others.
—Hakan Ozcelik
Imagination is so important for human beings.
—Hakan Ozcelik
If you make a difference in someone’s life they don’t forget it.
—Hakan Ozcelik
Resources Mentioned
CBA Film Festival
Video: CBA Film Festival
CBA Organizational Wisdom Studio Project
No Employee is an Island
12/20/2018 • 40 minutes, 1 second
How to Be a Generous Professor in Precarious times
Annemarie Perez and Douglas Dowland share about how to be a generous professor in precarious times on episode 235 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We need to be able to listen to the vulnerability of others in order to be generous to them.
—Douglas Dowland
A key element of generosity is being able to be in a listening space.
—Annemarie Perez
Resources Mentioned
A Radical Idea About Adjuncting: Written for Those with Tenure (or on the Tenure Track), by Annemarie Perez
Quit Lit
Thesis Hatement: Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor, by Rebecca Schuman
How to be a generous professor in precarious times
Hybrid Pedagogy
12/13/2018 • 38 minutes, 39 seconds
A New Lens to Support Learning Outcomes
Maria Andersen discusses a new lens to support learning outcomes on episode 234 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How much of the information … needs to be memorized versus knowing it exists?
—Maria Andersen
[Memorization] is eating away at the time that would give you the chance to spend more time on context.
—Maria Andersen
Too often we’ve fallen into the habit of basing our curriculum on some resource.
—Maria Andersen
Resources Mentioned
Maria’s last visit to Teaching in Higher Ed: Episode 177
When the iPhone Launched
Bonni’s Pinboard Bookmarks on Note-taking
Smartphone Ownership in the U.S.
Quadratic Equation
7 Comma Rules
Oxford Comma Memes
ESIL: A Learning Lens for the Digital Age
Taking the Algebra Out of College Algebra
12/6/2018 • 35 minutes, 34 seconds
Why They Can’t Write
John Warner shares about his new book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, on episode 233 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Declaring students defective is kind of a dead end.
—John Warner
We know what to do — we’re just not doing it.
—John Warner
If you don’t target somebody, you’re not targeting anybody.
—John Warner
Resources Mentioned
Dave Stachowiak interviews Seth Godin on Coaching for Leaders
Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, by John Warner (Use promo code: htwn for 20% off)
The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Non-Fiction Writing, by John Warner
11/29/2018 • 38 minutes, 4 seconds
Experience Inquiry
Kimberly L. Mitchell discusses her book, Experience Inquiry, on episode 232 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Inquiry is getting the students to do a lot of the question asking.
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
Making mistakes is an integral part of curiosity.
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
How do we create authentic curiosity in these places called schools?
—Kimberly L. Mitchell
Resources Mentioned
Experience Inquiry, by Kimberly L. Mitchell*
Inquiry Partners
Just wondering blog
The power of ummmm...
Eight Seconds That Will Transform Your Teaching
Question Formulation Technique
Episode 138: Digital Literacy with Mike Caulfield
11/21/2018 • 33 minutes, 23 seconds
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching
Josh Eyler shares about his book How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching on episode 231 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Part of the purpose of college is to help students develop the skills to ask really great questions.
—Josh Eyler
People are conditioned to fear failure.
—Josh Eyler
How do we build in opportunities for mistakes and errors?
—Josh Eyler
Part of the work of college is to help our students figure out what they find meaningful in their lives and pursue that.
—Josh Eyler
Resources Mentioned
The Scientist in the Crib, by Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, and Patricia K. Kuhl*
The Gift of Failure, Jessica Lahey*
Robin DeRosa on Teaching in Higher Ed
Hoda Moftosa on Teaching in Higher Ed
Retrieval practice
Video: Why is Math Different Now
What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain*
11/15/2018 • 37 minutes, 34 seconds
Teaching with Compassion
Peter Kaufman discusses teaching with compassion on episode 230 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Social interaction is the foundation of our society.
—Peter Kaufman
If we can’t interact well, then we can’t have a strong society.
—Peter Kaufman
I think we’ve lost a good understanding of what it means to treat each other like humans.
—Peter Kaufman
Resources Mentioned
Questionable Authorities
Questionable Authorities on Facebook
Lojong
The Zero Sum Game of Denigrating Students, by Peter Kaufman
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Freire*
A Leaf Falls by e.e. cummings
Learning to be Human From My Dog, by Peter Kaufman
Margaret Mead Quote
Starfish Story
11/8/2018 • 40 minutes, 37 seconds
Growing a Culture of Learning
Michael Ralph shares about building a culture of learning on episode 229 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Earn mastery on some of the things, or cover a lot and have mastery on many fewer things.
—Michael Ralph
Mastery feels good at a biological level.
—Michael Ralph
Active learning is more a description of the cognitive activities that are going on with my students.
—Michael Ralph
Resources Mentioned
"Active Learning" Has Become a Buzzword (and Why That Matters), by Josh Eyler
Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities
UKanTeach - KU Center for STEM Learning
Webinar: KS Sci. Ed. PD Resources
First Class:Collectively Writing a Constitution, by Cathy Davidson
11/1/2018 • 34 minutes, 9 seconds
How to Create Engaging Online Classes
Laura Gibbs discusses how to create engaging online classes on episode 228 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Good work takes time.
—Laura Gibbs
Meaningful writing can happen in any kind of class … but you have to design the class to make that happen.
—Laura Gibbs
Resources Mentioned
The Meaningful Writing Project
Laura’s course weekly routine: Sample
MythFolklore Projects
Laura’s course blog stream
Rotate content on a site
Alan Levine
Kevin Hodgson
Alan Levine on Teaching in Higher Ed
DS106
Flipgrid
James Lang on Teaching in Higher Ed talking about Cheating Lessons
Cheating Lessons, by James Lang\*
10/25/2018 • 42 minutes, 15 seconds
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone
Thomas Tobin talks about his book Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education on episode 227 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learning styles are not fixed characteristics.
—Thomas Tobin
It’s an iterative practice that allows students to cement things from short-term learning into long-term memory.
—Thomas Tobin
You don’t get a prize for knowing the answer … but you definitely get a prize for being able to apply it.
—Thomas Tobin
We’re lowering the barrier to access but we’re not lowering the rigor of the content itself.
—Thomas Tobin
Resources Mentioned
Edyburn, D. L. (2010). Would you recognize Universal Design for Learning if you saw it? Ten propositions for new directions for the second decade of UDL. Learning Disabilities Quarterly, 33(1), 33-41.
Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice (2104) - Get it FREE (click “create an account”)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Co-author: Kirsten Behling | Director, Student Accessibility Services | Tufts University
UDL-IRN -Implementation & Research Network
Ally: Create multiple versions of content automatically
Higher Education and UDL
Purchase Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone (Use code REACHTEACH to save 25%)
10/18/2018 • 39 minutes, 3 seconds
Critical Open Pedagogy
Rajiv Jhangiani shares about critical open pedagogy on episode 226 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We can actually modify our instructional resources to serve our pedological goals.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
The magic of open pedagogy is when you open it to not just faculty members but also students.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
Critical conversations are the ones happening at the margins.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
It’s difficult when we leave it to the marginalized to always have to advocate for themselves.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
Resources Mentioned
The 4Rs of Open Content, by David Wiley
The Access Compromise and the 5th R, by David Wiley
Reuse, revise, remix, retain, and redistribute
Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
Video: The Marshmallow Test
Hypothesis: Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere
Pressbooks: Create Books - Print and eBooks
H5P - Create, Share, and Reuse Interactive HTML5 Content in Your Browser
Paulo Freire
Chris Gilliard’s blog
Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy, by Chris Gilliard
Chris Gilliard on Teaching in Higher Ed #130
Amy Collier
Audrey Watters
Jesse stommel
Hybrid Pedagogy
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Episode #221 with DeRay Mckesson
The banking model of education
Henry Giroux
Ohio State University’s Environmental Science Bites
UC Davis’ Chemistry LibreTexts
Wiki Education Foundation
An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy, by Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris
Open Faculty Patchbook
The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science, by Rajiv Jhangiani, Robert Biswas-Diener (eds)
Open Pedagogy Notebook: Sharing Practices, Building Community
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
10/11/2018 • 40 minutes, 50 seconds
Early Beginnings with Open Textbooks
Quotes from the episode
Sometimes we’re going to take a few steps back, but most days we’re going to take a step forward.
—Matt Rhoads
If you’re willing to put in the work … then you’re going to have a successful book.
—Matt Rhoads
What can you do better than a textbook publisher other than the fact that you can be free?
—Kelly Robinette
What is it that I want my students to walk away from the class knowing that they’re not going to get from a publisher?
—Kelly Robinette
Resources Mentioned
Beyond the Cloud: Supporting the 6Cs with Educational Technology, Co-editors Kelly Robinette and Bonni Stachowiak
On Amazon for purchase*
On Pressbooks for online reading
On Anchor.fm
Website with additional resources
Igniting Your Teaching with Educational Technology: A Resource for New Teachers (2017), Co-editors Matt Rhoads and Bonni Stachowiak*
On Amazon for purchase*
On Pressbooks for online reading
Website with additional resources
Michael Fullen’s 6Cs
Google docs
Google Team Drives
Pressbooks
Zoom
Canva
Pexels
anchor.fm
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Beyond the Cloud Podcast on Anchor.fm
Jade Davis’ HASTAC Release / Privacy Blog Post
10/4/2018 • 40 minutes, 19 seconds
An Urgency of Teachers
Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris share about An Urgency of Teachers on episode 224 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Having a kid, especially such a young child who’s seeing the world for the first time, makes me understand education in a completely different way.
—Jesse Stommel
When we’re teaching online, we’re not teaching to a screen — we’re teaching through a screen.
—Sean Michael Morris
What is it about the world we live in where teachers and the work of teaching is so urgent, so vital, so necessary
—Jesse Stommel
We have to be willing to let [teaching] be a process and not a finished product.
—Sean Michael Morris
Resources Mentioned
Audrey Watters (Who wrote the forward to the book)
An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Hybrid Pedagogy
My Caterpillar Life, by Sean Michael Morris
Harold Jarche - Personal Knowledge Mastery
9/27/2018 • 43 minutes, 29 seconds
But You Can’t Do That in a STEM Course
Karen Cangialosi on episode 223 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast discusses open education in STEM.
Quotes from the episode
I love when my students are surprised at what I’m asking them to do.
—Karen Cangialosi
We have such an opportunity to use our classrooms as experimental places where we can really affect change.
—Karen Cangialosi
Rigor comes from the students themselves.
—Karen Cangialosi
Resources Mentioned
Miranda Dean’s “What an Open Pedagogy class taught me about myself”
OpenStax Biology OpenTextbook
University of California Berkley’s - Understanding Evolution OpenTextbook
University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center
Digital Pedagogy Lab (where Jesse Stommel offered his writing workshop that Karen mentions)
But you can’t do that in a STEM course, by Karen Cangialosi
Karen’s Blog
9/20/2018 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
A Loyal Listener’s Reflections
Ian Wolf shares his reflections on listening to all the episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed on episode 222.
Quotes from the episode
You have to make your expectations abundantly clear because nobody can meet an imaginary expectation.
—Ian Wolf
Put learning as the focus as opposed to the teaching as a focus.
—Ian Wolf
Resources Mentioned
Reacting to the Episode 21 with Marc Carnes
Twitter
Linda Nilsen Shares About Specifications Grading on Episode 29
Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time, by Linda Nilsen
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World of Flux, by Cathy N. Davidson*
Asao Inoue Describes That the Vehicle of Learning is Labor on Episode 209
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen*
The weekly review on Episode 64
Peter Felten on Engaging Learners on Episode 216
Lemniscate - Infinity Symbol
Jesse Stommel on Episode 57
Kevin Gannon on Episode 52
Video Course Trailers
Jesse Stommel on Twitter
Kevin Gannon on Twitter
Designing a Motivational Syllabus: Creating a Learning Path for Student Engagement, by Christine Harrington & Melissa Thomas*
Next Draft: The Day’s Most Fascinating News from Dave Pell
Frictionless Systems with Dave Stachowiak on Episode 201
Delta Rae
Fast Romantics - Julia
Fast Romantics - Why We Fight
9/13/2018 • 35 minutes, 49 seconds
On the Other Side of Freedom
DeRay Mckesson shares about his new book, On the Other Side of Freedom: A Case for Hope, on episode 221 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We should talk about the things that are true as simply as possible.
—DeRay Mckesson
You can’t fight for people you don’t know.
—DeRay Mckesson
Resources Mentioned
Episode #107 with Gardner Campbell: Engaging Learners
Pod Save the People: The Politics of Teeth
Pod Save the People
On the Other Side of Freedom: A Case for Hope, by DeRay Mckesson*
Vested Matters: Why DeRay Mckesson Matters
9/6/2018 • 18 minutes, 30 seconds
Career Leadership and Learning
Jeremy Podany explores career leadership and learning on episode 220 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Circles of trust matter to students.
—Jeremy Podany
Resources Mentioned
Everyday Innovators on The Career Leadership Collective
Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education: The Big Problem
Lessons from Early Social Innovators
8/30/2018 • 26 minutes, 28 seconds
Agile Faculty
Rebecca Pope Ruark discusses her book, Agile Faculty, on episode 219 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What if we create experiences rather than courses?
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark
How do we help our students learn rather than just play school?
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark
The goal of articulating tasks is to break them down into reasonable chunks.
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark
Resources Mentioned
Agile software development
Scrum (rugby)
Daily stand up (scrum) meeting
The 3 questions that get asked
Scrum board - backlog / work in progress / done
Examples on Quora
Overview of scrum and use of Trello
8/23/2018 • 39 minutes, 46 seconds
Courses as Stories
Alan Levine shares how he creates courses as stories on episode 218 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Instead of thinking about the world through headline news stories, think about it through the experiences that people have living in these different communities.
—Alan Levine
You get better by just practicing. Not rote practicing, but stuff where you’re free to explore.
—Alan Levine
Resources Mentioned
Alan’s Net Narratives Class
Mia Zimora’s story
Networked Narratives Spine
DS106 - Digital Storytelling class
Weekly studio visits
Leonardo Flores studio visit
Networked Narratives: Digital Alchemy of Storytelling, by Mia Zamora and Alan Levine
NetNarr Studio Visit with Emilio Vavarella
Virtual bus tours
Alan’s choose your own adventure style course and social media setup: Labyrinthus
#arganee world
Mirror Mirror Arganee Alchemy Lab
Cogdog’s Daily Blank WordPress theme
DS106 daily create
Kevin Hodgson
CLMOOC
Hypothesis
Jim Groom
Me on Futzing
Alan’s calling card site
Alan’s Portfolio site
Reflection on most recent NetNarr class
8/16/2018 • 39 minutes, 43 seconds
How to Ungrade
Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel
Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel
Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel
Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel
Resources Mentioned
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Why I Don’t Grade, by Jesse Stommel
How to Ungrade, by Jesse Stommel
The New Education, by Cathy Davidson*
Cathy Davidson on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #169
Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow’s Website and Blog
Bryan Dewsbury on Teaching in Higher Ed, Episode #215
Parrish Waters at UMW
Blue Pulse
8/9/2018 • 36 minutes, 31 seconds
Research on Engaging Learners
Peter Felten discusses the research on engaging learners on episode 216 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Notes from the episode
Shape what our students do and what they think in the most efficient ways possible.
—Peter Felten
Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (from How Learning Works by Ambrose et al., 2010, p. 1)
Five Things Students Need to Do:
Time
Effort
Feedback
Practice
Reflect
Three Things Students Need to Think/Feel:
“I belong here.”
“I can learn this.”
“I find this meaningful.”
Resources Mentioned
The Heart of Engaged Learning: What Students Do and Think
David Perkins: Ladder of Feedback
Constructive Criticism: The Role of Student-Faculty Interactions on African American and Hispanic Students' Educational Gains, Cole, Darnell
8/2/2018 • 39 minutes, 51 seconds
Teaching as an act of social justice and equity
Bryan Dewsbury describes teaching as an act of social justice and equity on episode 215 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Mistakes are normal, but how you respond to the challenges is what will make you a better intellectual.
—Bryan Dewsbury
It is not my job to give them information — it is my job to extract potential they already have.
—Bryan Dewsbury
Don’t assume you can take a list of suggestions and implement them and assume that inclusion will happen.
—Bryan Dewsbury
Resources Mentioned
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein*
The History of Higher Education, by John R. Thelin*
The Soul of My Pedagogy, by Bryan Dewsbury in Scientific American
Freshmen “Are Souls that Want to Be Awakened,” by Kelly Field in The Chronicle of Higher Education
This I Believe from NPR
This I Believe Educator’s Guide
7/26/2018 • 35 minutes, 10 seconds
On Not Affirming Our Values
Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray share about their article: “Affirming Our Values”: African American Scholars, White Virtual Mobs, and the Complicity of White University Administrators on episode 214 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I try to have very honest conversations with my students.
—Stephen Finley
You have to have integrity before you stand before these students.
—Biko Mandela Gray
Integrity and honesty on both sides is absolutely necessary.
—Biko Mandela Gray
A lot of institutions think diversity is having a woman, having a person of color, on faculty — but not structural change.
—Stephen Finley
Resources Mentioned
George Dewey Yancy
Dear White America, by George Yancy in The New York Times
The Pain and Promise of Black Women in Philosophy, by George Yancy in The New York Times
Should I Give Up on White People? By George Yancy in The New York Times
Afro-pessimism
Black Lives Matter?: Africana Religious Responses to State Violence.
Syracuse Fraternity Suspended for ‘Extremely Racist’ Video, by Maggie Astor in The New York Times
The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign, by Jared Sexton
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid, by Frank B. Wilderson
Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, by Frank B. Wilderson
Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon*
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon *
Jesus turns over tables in anger
Brood of vipers
Debra Thompson
An Exoneration of Black Rage, by Debra Thompson in The Atlantic Quarterly
James Baldwin
The Religion of White Rage - the book Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray are writing
7/19/2018 • 39 minutes, 24 seconds
Personal Knowledge Mastery
Harold Jarche discusses personal knowledge mastery on episode 213 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You can’t turn data into information until you have the knowledge to understand the data.
—Harold Jarche
We are the sum of our interactions, our experiences, with others.
—Harold Jarche
Whatever you do, make it shareable.
—Harold Jarche
Leadership in the network era is helping make your network smarter.
—Harold Jarche
Resources Mentioned
DIKW framework
The Empowered Manager, by Peter Block*
Episode 208
Jarche’s PKM story, where he shares about being inspired by Dave Pollard, Denham Gray, and Lilia Efimova
Lilia Efimova’s blog: Mathemagenic
Working and Learning Out Loud (Jarche)
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge*
Knowledge and Wisdom (Jarche’s Friday’s Finds)
Personal Knowledge Mastery
Jarche’s PKM online workshop
Jarche’s professional services (speaking, consulting, etc.)
Madelyn Blair
Riding the Current: How to Deal with the Daily Deluge of Data, by Madelyn Blair*
Helen Blunden (@ActivateLearn)
Jay Cross
Inoreader
Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning
Twitter
Slack
Harold Jarche’s blog
Zoom.us
Jarche’s ebooks
Diigo
Thomas Vander Wal
Folksonomy
7/12/2018 • 39 minutes, 53 seconds
Delegation in an academic context and other listener questions
Bonni Stachowiak answers listener questions on episode 212 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We actually can create motivation in the students we have.
—Robert Talbert
Motivation is hard work.
—Robert Talbert
Resources Mentioned
Email debt forgiveness day
Question 1: Assessing reflective essays
Episode 209 with Asao Inoue
How to Ungrade, by Jesse Stommel
Assessing reflection from Depaul
Isabeau Iqbal
Question 2: Delegation
Define done (acceptance criteria) - Asian Efficiency episode on delegation
Document processes and workflows - Don McAllister was a guest on MPU and recommended using Podio for workflows
Work in the cloud - Dropbox paper, Asana, Google apps
Question 3: Quizlet Live
Retrieval Practice website
My reflections on the AAC&U Webinar: Teaching Techniques to Improve Learning and Ensure Classroom Success
Episode 199: Sierra Smith shares about Quizlet Live
Question 4: Discussion board metrics
Maha Bali
Creating Online Learning Experiences: Chapter 9 - Assessment and Grading Issues
Question 5: Tuition centers for math classes
Episode 207 with Wendy Purcell
Question 6: Sexual assault on campus and its ramifications in a journalism class
Sandie Morgan
Bystander prevention
Classroom dialog
Question 7: Unmotivated students
HybridPod, Ep. 13 - Asking the Right Questions
Video - The Sleeper, by Mike Wesch
Question 8: Course evaluations
Isabeau Iqbal
Question 9: The professor as administrator
Jesse Stommel
Agenda Mac and iOS apps
Sweet Setup Review: Things
Things
Todoist for a non-Mac option (Neglected to mention but recommended)
Asana
Omnifocus
TextExpander*
Question 10: Group presentations in live online classes
Zoom.us
Piktochart
7/5/2018 • 44 minutes, 54 seconds
Reflecting on Our Teaching
Quotes from the episode
The questions that we ask are often not really the questions that we’re asking.
—Catherine Haras
People learn through emotions.
—Catherine Haras
People learn when they’re surprised.
—Catherine Haras
Resources Mentioned
Noel Burch and the Four Stages for Learning Any New Skill
Sarah Rose Cavanaugh on Teaching in Higher Ed
The Spark of Learning by Sarah Rose Cavanaugh*
6/28/2018 • 34 minutes, 57 seconds
Teaching the Literature Survey Course
James Lang shares about teaching the Literature Survey course on episode 210 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What do we expect, in terms of breadth of knowledge within a discipline, and how do you get students to learn that?
—James Lang
Deep learning is when students create connections between the course material and their own lives.
—James Lang
Where are the opportunities in my syllabus for students to make their voices heard?
—James Lang
Resources Mentioned
‘Teaching the Literature Survey Course’ - Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved — and should evolve, by Scott Jaschik in Inside Higher Ed
Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty — Edited by Gwynn Dujardin, James M. Lang, and John A. Staunton
Team-based Learning with Jim Sibley on episode 73
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Ninth Edition) (Vol. 1) Ninth Edition by M. H. Abrams*
The Blank Syllabus by Chris Walsh
Carnegie Melon Eberly Center
6/21/2018 • 38 minutes, 52 seconds
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
Asao B. Inoue discusses antiracist writing assessment ecologies on episode 209 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Racism is a set of structures that often are invisible to us because they seem so natural.
—Asao B. Inoue
We all come from and work in hegemonic systems.
—Asao B. Inoue
I don’t think that anyone is a bad person … what we have are bad systems.
—Asao B. Inoue
The engine of learning is labor.
—Asao B. Inoue
Resources Mentioned
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future by Asao B. Inoue
Toward Writing as Social Justice: An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Mya Poe and Asao B. Inoue
A Grade-Less Writing Course That Focuses on Labor and Assessing by Asao Inoue
6/14/2018 • 43 minutes, 29 seconds
The 208 Backstory
Bonni Stachowiak shares the 208 backstory on episode 208 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Do what you can to find out the lay of the land and don’t rely solely on interviews.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
Charlie's Angels
TextExpander*
Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges*
The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments by William Bridges*
OCBJ Book of Lists
6/7/2018 • 32 minutes, 26 seconds
Rethinking Higher Education
Wendy Purcell shares about rethinking higher education on episode 207 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think you’re seeing that universities now are needing to be much more connected to the society we serve.
—Wendy Purcell
You really will be learning throughout your life.
—Wendy Purcell
The very best education should transform you.
—Wendy Purcell
You are supporting transformation of people, and through people, transformation of society at large.
—Wendy Purcell
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
—Socrates
To an unprecedented extent, universities must partner with government, business, and civil society to take on the grand challenges of sustainable development that lie ahead.
—Jeff Sachs
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Resources Mentioned
Envisioning pathways to 2030: Megatrends shaping the future of global higher education and international student mobility. January, 2018
Global universities unprepared for sea change ahead. 26th January, 2018
Future of skills and lifelong learning. 22nd November, 2017
Differentiation of English universities: the impact of policy reforms in driving a more diverse higher education landscape. Purcell, W.M. et al (2016).
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 20(1): 24-33.
Education is the kindling of a flame: How to reinvent the 21st-century university. 5th Jan, 2018; update 8th Jan
The 2018 Trends Report (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Episode 141: The Danger of Silence with Clint Smith
5/31/2018 • 35 minutes, 32 seconds
Inquiry-based Learning
Jeffery Galle discusses inquiry-based learning on episode 206 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students get excited when they’re confronted with problems which they have confidence to explore.
—Jeffery Galle
Being an actively engaged student is not easy.
—Jeffery Galle
Start small and work outward from there.
—Jeffery Galle
Resources Mentioned
Inquiry-Based Learning for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences by Patrick Blessinger*
Expert Dive: Empowering Students Through Inquiry-Guided Learning on the ACUE blog
Ways of Inquiry: The Distinctiveness of the Oxford College General Education Program by Jeffery Galle, Brenda Harmon, Alicia Ory DeNicola, and Bridgette Gunnels in Inquiry-based Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators. 2014, 121-146
Small Teaching by James M. Lang*
Nancy Chick
AAC&U Essential Learning Outcomes
AAC&U Value Rubrics
Kool-Aid (purple)*
How To Make a Simple OREO Vending Machine With Card
Hunger by Roxane Gay*
Tara Westover on Twitter
When Open-Ended Polling Gets Rocky
5/24/2018 • 39 minutes, 2 seconds
The College Classroom Assessment Compendium
Jay Parkes and Dawn Zimmaro discuss their book The College Classroom Assessment Compendium: A Practical Guide to the College Instructor’s Daily Assessment Life on episode 205 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We see the need both for that just-in-time answer but also for faculty to do more thinking systematically about why they do what they do.
—Jay Parkes
Stop and say, “Why does this bother me?” and usually the answer to that is … something a little deeper than that particular student.
—Jay Parkes
How does extra credit really support their mastery of learning objectives?
—Dawn Zimmaro
If we’re really focused on the academic welfare of the student then our assessment activity should primarily be focused on promoting learning.
—Dawn Zimmaro
Resources Mentioned
The College Classroom Assessment Compendium by Jay Parkes and Dawn Zimmaro*
TextExpander*
5/17/2018 • 37 minutes, 23 seconds
The Spark of Learning Reprise
Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about her book, The Spark of Learning, and more on episode 204 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not going to learn if they’re not engaged, if they’re not curious.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Students will remain engaged … if we initially generate excitement.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
We need to be authentically ourselves.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
We need to be attentive to the fact that there lots of different ways to portray that passion to be the spark.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Resources Mentioned
Sarah also shared about the Spark of Learning on episode 135
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh*
Kentina Smith’s Blog Post on Emotional Hooks
Christopher Emdin
5 min TED talk: Teach Teachers How to Create Magic
Tweet about Dave Stachowiak’s chemistry teacher
HBR Women at Work Podcast
Lead with Authenticity episode
Derek Bruff Shares about Times for Telling on episode 71
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too by Christopher Emdin *
Poster at Association for Psychological Science Conference in May
Sarah’s New Book - HIVEMIND: The Perils and Promise of Our Collective Social Selves is coming in March of 2019 via Grand Central Publishing
5/10/2018 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
My Flipped Classroom
Jan H. Jensen shares about his flipped classroom on episode 203 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I didn’t flip the whole classroom at once.
—Jan H. Jensen
If you really have to generate your own teaching material … then videos are the fastest way of doing that.
—Jan H. Jensen
If you’re starting a course from scratch … it’s not that much more work to flip it.
—Jan H. Jensen
The boring stuff? That’s kind of a warning sign that the curriculum needs to be addressed.
—Jan H. Jensen
Resources Mentioned
My Flipped Classroom: What I Did and How I Did It
Active Learning: Tools and Tips
Eric Mazur - Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Robert Bjork on episode 72
Learning and Assessing with Multiple-Choice Questions in College Classrooms by Jay Parkes and Dawn Zimmaro *
“Times for telling,” talked about by Derek Bruff on episode 71
5/3/2018 • 43 minutes, 13 seconds
Supporting Students Who are Veterans
Kevin Jones describes ways we can support our students who are veterans on episode 202 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
They feel like it’s very difficult for them to relate to the other students on campus.
—Kevin Jones
Your education doesn’t end when you finish your degree.
—Kevin Jones
Work with the community you’re in.
—Kevin Jones
I think everybody in higher ed needs to be a bit of an entrepreneur right now.
—Kevin Jones
Resources Mentioned
Screencast-O-Matic*
Team Red White and Blue
Team Rubicon
Office of Veteran Success at the University of South Florida
Veteran Student Life at the University of Maryland
Utah State University Veterans Resource Office
The Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University
Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University
Student Veterans of America
4/26/2018 • 36 minutes, 54 seconds
Frictionless Systems
Dave Stachowiak and I talk about frictionless systems on episode 201 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’ve realized the importance of ending the day well and that having a sense of accomplishment is really important.
—Dave Stachowiak
Let’s automate all the things we can automate so we can spend more time doing the things we should never automate.
—Dave Stachowiak
Once the weekly review is done … I’m just following the plan for the week.
—Dave Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian P. Moran*
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching by Rebecca Pope-Ruark *
Trimesterly Planning - Robert Talbert
The weekly review
TextExpander*
Recommended TextExpander back on episode #114
TextExpander.com/podcast* for 20% off your first year
Current List of Projects
Ulysses
Academic Writing in Markdown from Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody
The MacSparky Markdown Field Guide
SaneBox*
Airmail
Fantastical
Paprika (Windows, Android, Kindle Fire Tablet, iOS, Mac)
InstaPot*
Pinterest Board: Meal Prep
Pinterest Board: Instapot
Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Color Duplex Desk Scanner for Mac and PC*
The MacSparky Paperless Field Guide by David Sparks
4/19/2018 • 34 minutes, 58 seconds
Changing Our Minds About Teaching
Maha Bali, Robin DeRosa, and Mike Truong discuss changing our minds about teaching on episode 200 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I have learned that I don’t need to defend technology.
—Mike Truong
What happens if you structurally start to build [courses] around the real-world issues that students are bringing in?
—Robin DeRosa
In certain times of my life I think better in a synchronous way, talking to someone immediately. And other times I just need to step back and write.
—Maha Bali
Resources Mentioned
AMICAL
Tiffany’s blog post
The Case for Inclusive Teaching by Kevin Gannon* (mentioned in our chat room, not on the episode)
An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning
Virtually Connecting
Kate Bowles
Soliya - Intercultural dialog
Chickering & Gamson’s Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
Just in time. Just enough. Just for me. Just do it. (APU’s/Mike’s approach to faculty development)
MAGNA Pubs 20 Minute Mentor Commons
The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ by Molly Worthen in The New York Times
Virtually Connecting
4/12/2018 • 38 minutes, 50 seconds
A Student’s Perspective
Sierra Smith shares a student’s perspective on episode 199 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
College is a lot more traditional than I expected.
—Sierra Smith
I love a class that allows for natural interactions with other students.
—Sierra Smith
What you put into an experience is what you get out of it.
—Sierra Smith
I feel like it’s very non-productive when a professor comes in and they lecture for 50 minutes from paragraphs off a powerpoint.
—Sierra Smith
Resources Mentioned
Quizlet
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 1
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 2
Episode 91: Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series from West Virginia University Press: Edited by James M. Lang
Cochlear implant
Trint: Transcription Reinvented
Episode 110: Self-Regulated Learning and the Flipped Classroom with Robert Talbert
Episode 106: Undercover Professor with Mike Ross
4/5/2018 • 38 minutes, 20 seconds
The intersections between play, games, and learning
Nic Holt shares about the intersections between play, games, and learning on episode 198 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Always try to create those cross-silo engagements.
—Nic Holt
Before we can all learn together, we have to be nice and good to one another.
—Nic Holt
If you have a new piece of technology in your class … let everybody play with it.
—Nic Holt
To learn to take another person’s perspective is something that will transcend whatever content you’re trying to teach.
—Nic Holt
Resources Mentioned
R.E.M
Club Penguin
Dungeons and Dragons
World of Warcraft
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Autotelic - to do something for the love of it
Tiki-Toki
Bonnie Cramond
Leisure and Human Development by Douglas A. Kleiber and Francis A. McGuire
Wikipedia
Packback
Bonni’s never-used 7 Habits badges
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey*
Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois*
Bonni’s keynote at UGA 2017 Innovation in Teaching Conference
2018 Innovation in Teaching Conference at University of Georgia’s College of Education on October 19
3/29/2018 • 39 minutes, 9 seconds
Interactivity and inclusivity can help close the achievement gap
Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan describe how inclusivity can help close the achievement gap on episode 197 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do I communicate that their work ethic was actually more important than innate ability?
—Viji Sathy
When I first started teaching, I thought the classroom had to look a certain way.
—Kelly Hogan
The attention span of a class goes down the larger the class size.
—Kelly Hogan
Making a mistake is a big part of learning.
—Kelly Hogan
The more you do it, the more you start to see opportunities for improvement.
—Viji Sathy
Resources Mentioned
Course in Effective Teaching Practices
Why We’re Speaking Up About Inclusive Teaching Strategies on ACUE’s ‘Q’ Blog
www.inclusifiED.net
PollEverywhere
Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work? (Eddy & Hogan)
Classroom sound can be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses
SF State researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms
Loud and Clear: Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.
3/22/2018 • 46 minutes, 23 seconds
Reading as Collective Action
Nicholas Hengen Fox shares about his book, Reading as Collective Action, on episode 196 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE
Like a lot of faculty members and grad students, I have a lot of privilege. That shapes the way I see the world and interact with texts.
—Nicholas Hengen Fox
Resources Mentioned
September 11 attacks
Sep 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
Grapes of Wrath* by John Steinbeck
Working class literature
The Theory of Communicative Action: Jurgen Habermas’s theory
001: The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society*
Just Mercy* by Bryan Stevenson
Can the working-class novel exist today? Maybe by Nicholas Hengen Fox
3/15/2018 • 31 minutes, 40 seconds
Considering Open Education with an Interdisciplinary Lens
Robin DeRosa discusses considering open education with an interdisciplinary lens on episode 195 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do we make higher education more accessible to learners by rethinking the structures of our programs?
—Robin DeRosa
It’s really about empowering learners.
—Robin DeRosa
Design structures that reflect the fact that universities are in the real world.
—Robin DeRosa
Resources Mentioned
Robin’s posts about interdisciplinary studies
The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
Episode 179 - Paul Blowers connects the Disneyland Legionnaires' Disease to His Class
OER: Bigger Than Affordability
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson*
Episode 169 - The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux with Cathy Davidson
Evergreen State College
Prescott College
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, by Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak, & Michele Phillips Buchberger
Ch. 18 Fruit: A Metaphor for Understanding Interdisciplinarity by Moti Nissani in Interdisciplinary Studies: A Connected Learning Approach
3/8/2018 • 33 minutes, 42 seconds
Interactive Theatre Enters the Classroom
James Wilson on episode 194 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast shares about Interactive Theatre in the classroom.
Quotes from the episode
Humans are hardwired for learning by doing.
—James Wilson
Everybody in everyday life is an actor … it shouldn’t be deemed an untouchable art form.
—James Wilson
I haven’t come across a medium of teaching which attaches a higher state of emotion to learning experiences.
—James Wilson
Resources Mentioned
Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First by Tom Kitwood*
Choose Your Own Adventure Posts and Podcasts on Teaching in Higher Ed
Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande*
Episode 117 with Kerry Moore
Games for actors and non-actors by Augusto Boal
Article about our experience using Forum Theatre
Meetoo
Turning Technologies
Three filmed projects
Turning a crisis into an interactive drama: An introductory paper of a ‘clickers theatre’ in nurse education
3/1/2018 • 38 minutes, 40 seconds
Diversity and Inclusion – How Does Higher Ed Rate?
Amer Ahmed shares how higher ed rates in diversity and inclusion on episode 193 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Are we healing when we’re in a constant state of frustration?
—Amer F. Ahmed
Getting people off the defensive is really important.
—Amer F. Ahmed
People don’t just snap their fingers … and then be a fundamentally different person.
—Amer F. Ahmed
The moment I stepped out of my home I was stepping into a different culture.
—Amer F. Ahmed
Resources Mentioned
ACUE
Classroom Diversity and Inclusive Pedagogy on ACUE's Expert Series blog
2/22/2018 • 29 minutes, 54 seconds
Using Data to Stimulate Student Learning
Eric Loepp discusses how he uses data to stimulate student learning on episode 192 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Beyond Polls: Using Science and Student Data to Stimulate Learning
FiveThirtyEight
New York Times
Washington Post
You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse During Obama’s Presidency
Qualtrics
Parks and Recreation
2/15/2018 • 39 minutes, 13 seconds
Creating Immersive Learning Experiences in Online Courses
Ric Montelongo describes how he creates immersive learning experiences in online classes on episode 191 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you experiment, look at what support your institution has to offer.
—Ric Montelongo
Technology isn’t limited to online classes.
—Ric Montelongo
Be very mindful of privacy — not everyone likes to be recorded.
—Ric Montelongo
Resources Mentioned
Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
GoPro HERO6 Black*
Roller Coaster Database
Roller Coaster POV Ride GoPro Example
Salsa, Soul, & Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age – Juana Bordas
Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
SHSU Online
SHSU Digital Education Summit
Texas A&M University Galveston Campus & Hurricane Ike 2008
Hurricane Harvey Blog post for ACPA 2018 Convention
Virtual Reality – CBS This Morning
Planet Money podcast
Marketplace podcast
VoiceThread
2/8/2018 • 36 minutes, 24 seconds
Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Studying Our Teaching
Eddie talks about studying our teaching and his new book: Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* on episode 190 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We should take teaching … as seriously as we take researching.
—C. Edward Watson
Are students learning what we are trying to ensure that they learn?
—C. Edward Watson
Resources Mentioned
Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom on Episode 21 with Mark Carnes in October of 2014
Minds on Fire, How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark Carnes
Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* by C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood
State of flow
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate* by Ernest L. Boyer
Published games: Reacting site at Barnard College
High-Impact Educational Practices
Association of American Colleges and Universities Meetings and Events
Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech
Lilly Conferences
Journal of Chemical Education
Journal of Engineering Education
2/1/2018 • 33 minutes, 55 seconds
Designing Online Experiences for Learners
Judith Boettcher shares her expertise designing online experiences for learners on episode 189 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Autonomy really means helping students have their own sense of self.
—Judith Boettcher
What we really want to do is structure experiences where we don’t have the answers.
—Judith Boettcher
Review your courses and see where you can take the answers out and put the challenges in.
—Judith Boettcher
The best way to check whether or not you understand something is to teach it to someone else.
—Judith Boettcher
Resources Mentioned
ACUE
3 Ways to Enhance Your Online Instruction on ACUE’s “Q” Blog
InstaPot
The Making of an Expert
Thinking Collaboratively: Learning in a Community of Inquiry* by D. Randy Garrison
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1/25/2018 • 32 minutes, 50 seconds
Designing Inclusive Games for The Higher Ed Classroom
Anastasia Salter on episode 188 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast discusses designing inclusive games for the Higher Ed classroom.
Quotes from the episode
What comes out of it is what someone imagines.
—Anastasia Salter
The first thing to decide is why you are making the game. How do you want people to encounter this concept you have?
—Anastasia Salter
Start out trying to build the thing that brought you to games.
—Anastasia Salter
Resources Mentioned
Thanks to John Stewart for Recommending Anastasia Salter as a Guest
Jane Jenson
Roberta Williams
ReplyAll episode #105 At World’s End
Animal Crossing games
ProfHacker: Digital Distractions: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Shiro
Dream Daddy
Professor Layton Game Series
Emotional Intelligence 2.0* by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves
Porpentine (Game Designer)
Twine (Software)
With Those We Love Alive
http://www.playthepast.org/
Keegan Long-Wheeler
Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor*
Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing, by Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett*
Shippers/Shipping (Fandom)
Steven Moffat
Gamergate
Rabid and Sad Puppies’ attacks on the Hugo Awards
“Fake Geek Girls”
Sherlock (BBC TV Series)
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1/18/2018 • 39 minutes, 28 seconds
Laptops: Friend or Foe
Todd Zakrajsek discusses laptops - friend or foe? - on episode 187 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Laptops weren’t the problem to begin with — attention was the problem.
—Todd Zakrajsek
Banning the problem doesn’t change the attention to you — it changes it to something else.
—Todd Zakrajsek
We live in a better system of thinking than dichotomies.
—Todd Zakrajsek
You can’t ban bacon thoughts.
—Todd Zakrajsek
Resources Mentioned
Paul Blowers on Episode 179
No laptops in the lecture hall, by Seth Godin
Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness, by Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek*
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1/11/2018 • 39 minutes, 43 seconds
Assessing the Impact of Open Educational Resources
Eddie Watson shares about assessing the impact of open educational resources on episode 186 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Episode 137 - Eddie talked about Teaching Naked Techniques
Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes by Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson*
OpenStax at Rice University
National Survey of Student Engagement
Chemistry - OpenStax
U.S. History - OpenStax
Salt Lake Community College’s research: Open Educational Resources and Student Course Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis by Jessie R Winitzky-Stephens and Jason Pickavance
2018 Annual Meeting: Can Higher Education Recapture the Elusive American Dream? Watson, C. E., Domizi, D., & Clouser, S. A. (2017).
Student and faculty perceptions of OpenStax in high enrollment courses International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(5), 287-304.
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1/4/2018 • 36 minutes
Privacy and Safety in Online Learning
Christian Friedrich shares about privacy and safety in online learning on episode 185 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Privacy and safety are not the same thing.
—Christian Friedrich
Safety and privacy usually are contextual.
—Christian Friedrich
Notes
Nishant Shah:
Making Safe (you look different, gender is different, so let’s invent something that prevents people like you from being harassed)
Keeping Safe
Being Safe
Safeguarding
Feeling Safe: agency, negotiation, making learners (and teachers) stakeholders in the creation of their own safety
Resources Mentioned
OER17: Safety in Open Online Learning
OEB16: Can we be safe in online learning?
16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence: protecting your online privacy in 16 steps
Sean Michael Morris - Not Enough Voices keynote
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews *
Guardian article - I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets by Judith Duportail
So You've Been Publicly Shamed Paperback by Jon Ronson *
Episode 18 of the ReplyAll podcast: Silence and Respect
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12/28/2017 • 36 minutes, 55 seconds
The Science of Retrieval Practice
Pooja Agarwal discusses the science of retrieval practice on episode 184 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Lyle, K. B., & Crawford, N. A. (2011). Retrieving essential material at the end of lectures improves performance on statistics exams. Teaching of Psychology, 38(2), 94-97.
Roediger III, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological science, 17(3), 249-255.
Kromann, C. B., Bohnstedt, C., Jensen, M. L., & Ringsted, C. (2010). The testing effect on skills learning might last 6 months. Advances in health sciences education, 15(3), 395-401.
Roediger III, H. L., Agarwal, P. K., McDaniel, M. A., & McDermott, K. B. (2011). Test-enhanced learning in the classroom: long-term improvements from quizzing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17(4), 382.
Agarwal, P. K., Karpicke, J. D., Kang, S. H., Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (2008). Examining the testing effect with open‐and closed‐book tests. Applied cognitive psychology, 22(7), 861-876.
Retrieval Practice website
12/21/2017 • 37 minutes, 14 seconds
Open Education Inspiration
Robin DeRosa inspired us through open education on episode 183 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What is invisible to me about my teaching that could be better?
—Robin DeRosa
I had taught my students to devalue their work.
—Robin DeRosa
Open is not the opposite of private.
—Robin DeRosa
How do we need to build it differently to get different participation?
—Robin DeRosa
Resources Mentioned
This American Life - Episode 511: The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About
Bryan Alexander’s Podcast Favorites
Jesse Stommel
Sean Michael Morris
Glisser
iAnnotate
Is Back to School Night Still Relevant? by Malikah Nu-Man Liks
12/14/2017 • 39 minutes, 38 seconds
Equity in Learning Design
Christian Friedrich discusses equity in learning design on episode 182 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I always try to work with the learners themselves.
—Christian Friedrich
Lots of faculty fall into the trap of judging people’s contexts by looking at their own … that’s how we work as humans.
—Christian Friedrich
There are many layers where you cannot be “right” in your course design and where you have to make tough choices.
—Christian Friedrich
Resources Mentioned
Episode 130 - Digital Redlining and Privacy with Chris Gilliard
OpenCon2017
OpenCon Resources
Do-a-thon at OpenCon
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Re-thinking Design for the Inclusion of Marginalised Learners - a Provocational Learning Café
Web Safe Colors
The Family Book by Todd Parr*
Virtually Connecting
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12/7/2017 • 33 minutes, 10 seconds
Gifts for Learning and Productivity
Dave and Bonni Stachowiak share ideas for holiday gifts on this special 181st episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Greetabl* (15% off link)
Blinkist* (free trial)
Kindle*
Audible* (2 free books + 30 days free)
Article on digital reading
Amazon Fresh* (free trial)
Blue Apron*
Acuity Scheduling* (free trial)
Sanebox* (free trial and $15 off)
Apple Watch
Apple AirPods
The Way to Stop Spinning Your Wheels on Planning
Best Year Ever course*
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11/30/2017 • 35 minutes, 12 seconds
Becoming a Student Again
Katie Linder and Bonni Stachowiak talk about returning to the role of the student on episode 180 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We can become a student to become a better teacher.
—Katie Linder
People like to learn in different ways.
—Katie Linder
Returning to being a student helps you to have empathy.
—Katie Linder
Resources Mentioned
The Blended Course Design Workbook by Katie Linder*
Power Your Podcast with Storytelling on CreativeLive*
Master Zoom Course with Andy Traub
Igniting Our Imagination in Digital Learning and Pedagogy with Remi Kalir
Why I Don’t Grade by Jesse Stommel
MailChimp Course
Coaching Certification
You’ve Got This episodes:
How Coaching Training is Going
The Academic Book Promotion Toolkit
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11/22/2017 • 31 minutes, 41 seconds
Active Learning in STEM Courses
Paul Blowers discusses active learning in STEM courses on episode 179 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am very open about my own failures.
—Paul Blowers
I tell students right up front: I will not be defeated. And I try to get them in that same mindset.
—Paul Blowers
My goal is to know every student name by the first week of class.
—Paul Blowers
My goal is to create a series of tasks and questions that force even the best students to make tough choices.
—Paul Blowers
Resources Mentioned
ACUE
Three Misconceptions About Using Active Learning in STEM by Paul Blower for ACUE
Richard M. Felder
Turning Technologies
Disneyland Shuts Down 2 Cooling Towers After Legionnaires’ Disease Sickens Park Visitors
Attendance 2 iOS App
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11/16/2017 • 40 minutes, 35 seconds
Igniting Our Imagination in Digital Learning and Pedagogy
Remi Kalir talks about igniting our imagination in digital learning and pedagogy on episode 178 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Play is not a synonym for fun.
—Remi Kalir
Our ability to change our minds … is very important.
—Remi Kalir
Just because a research article has been finished and put out there … doesn’t mean the conversation is over.
—Remi Kalir
Resources Mentioned
On Being: Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness, with Ellen Langer
Remi’s recent keynote about leadership, equity and creativity for Metropolitan State University’s 2017 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium
Theatre of the Oppressed
Digital Pedagogy Lab
ThinqStudio at the University of Colorado Denver
Episode 75 of the Very Bad Wizards podcast
“Overconfidence is really associated with a failure of imagination. When you cannot imagine an alternative to your belief, you are convinced that your belief is true.” - Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman
On Being: Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other, with Daniel Kahneman
Ignorance: How it Drives Science* by Stuart Firestein
Mosaic Web Browser
Hypothes.is
Educator Innovator
Marginal Syllabus
Writing Our Civic Futures
Remi’s Research: Educator Learning and Open Web Annotation
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11/9/2017 • 31 minutes, 46 seconds
Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport
Maria Andersen shares about how learning is not a spectator sport on episode 177 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I feel like we’ve made online learning really transactional.
— Maria Andersen
We’ve taken the joy and excitement out of learning.
— Maria Andersen
The world is not as cut and dried as the problems we see in text.
— Maria Andersen
You don’t actually learn until you engage with it.
— Maria Andersen
Resources Mentioned
Thanks to George Woodbury for recommending Maria to be a guest on Teaching in Higher Ed
busynessgirl.com
Mobile apps for education
Wolfram Alpha
Maria’s Speaking / talk menu
Vilma Mesa’s Publications at University of Michigan
Episode #168 with Teddy Svoronos
Video: Why is math different now
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11/2/2017 • 40 minutes, 17 seconds
OpenEd17 Recap and Other Teaching Lessons
Bonni Stachowiak shares her experience attending OpenEd17, as well as other teaching lessons, on episode 176 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Open Education 2017 Conference
Student Panel - Santa Ana college
American Concrete Institute’s Annual Conference
Robin DeRosa’s Open Textbooks post
Pressbooks
Matthew Bloom Scottsdale CC
The Ohio State University Open Educational Resources
Recommendations
Take a look at the varied reasons people use Twitter via Storify
Advice on giving teaching demos:
From Josh Eyler
From Adam Wilsman
From Peter Newbury
10/26/2017 • 20 minutes, 59 seconds
GTD, UDL, and Other Listener Questions
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak answer listener questions on episode 175 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 1
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 2
Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment
National Center on Universal Design for Learning
159: Dynamic Lecturing with Todd Zakrajsek
UDL guidelines - version 2.0 - Examples and resources
CAST’s UDL resources
Getting Things Done
Fork Your Syllabus, You Slackers
Annotating DML
www.learnhowtopodcast.com
The Showrunner
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10/19/2017 • 39 minutes, 52 seconds
21st Century Learning Objectives
Laura Gogia shares how to develop learning objectives for the 21st century on episode 174 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There are people out there who live and die by learning objectives, and there are people who think they are the work of the devil.
—Laura Gogia
Knowledge is a dynamic, creative process.
—Laura Gogia
There are going to be times when it needs to be one way, and there are going to be times when it needs to be other ways. And that’s okay.
—Laura Gogia
It’s not about measuring as much as defining what you’re trying to measure.
—Laura Gogia
Resources Mentioned
www.lauragogia.com
116: Connected Learning for the Curious
Robin DeRosa (@actualham) - post on open textbooks
Service-learning
A Listener Question: Catching Up
Domain of One’s Own
Sean Michael Morris
Virtually Connecting
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10/12/2017 • 37 minutes, 43 seconds
Resisting Resilience
David Webster and Nicola Rivers resist resilience and share other unpopular opinions on episode 173 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A very human approach to learning sees students as individuals.
—David Webster
I’m increasingly concerned with how anxious our students are.
—Nicola Rivers
This well-intentioned discourse is not as benign as it seems.
—Nicola Rivers
Try to think more broadly about how we define success and how we define failure.
—Nicola Rivers
Resources Mentioned
Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave by Nicola Rivers*
A list of things millennials have ruined
Critiquing Discourses of Resilience in Education
How to Better Control Your Time By Designing Your Ideal Week by Michael Hyatt*
10/5/2017 • 35 minutes, 20 seconds
Values, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, and Pedagogy
John Warner shares about values, interdisciplinary knowledge, and pedagogy on episode 172 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I realized I could make choices consistent with what I think is important.
—John Warner
What we think is best is highly dependent on our values.
—John Warner
Attention by itself is not a function of learning.
—John Warner
The classroom belongs to the student as much as the instructor.
—John Warner
Resources Mentioned
Chicago Tribune’s Biblioracle
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
My “Last” Class by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
I Miss Teaching by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
Moving Students Away From Their Phones by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
The False God of Attention by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
Considering Student Silences by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
Teaching Sentences, Not “Grammar” by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed
The Invitation by Bonni Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other* by Sherry Turkle
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9/28/2017 • 42 minutes, 36 seconds
Why Students Resist Learning
Anton Tolman shares about his book Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling on episode 171 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Everybody who has taught has run into student resistance in one form or another.
—Anton Tolman
We need to start seeing student resistance as a signal.
—Anton Tolman
When they’re resisting, they’re telling me something.
—Anton Tolman
A common error … is to believe that a lot of student resistance is because of the students themselves.
—Anton Tolman
Resources Mentioned
Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students Edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling
Episode #169: The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux with Cathy Davidson
SQ4R reading method
Perry’s Scheme – Understanding the Intellectual Development of College-Age Students
Episode #047: Developing metacognition skills in our students with Todd Zakrajsek
No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson*
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9/21/2017 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil shares about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, on episode 170 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
This has very little to do with technical knowledge and everything to do with power.
—Cathy O'Neil
They think that because something is mathematical … it’s inherently more fair than a human process.
—Cathy O'Neil
There’s absolutely no reason to think that algorithms are inherently fair.
—Cathy O'Neil
It doesn’t make sense for all colleges to be measured by the same yardstick.
—Cathy O'Neil
There are ethical choices in every single algorithm we build.
—Cathy O'Neil
Resources Mentioned
Weapons of Math Destruction* by Cathy O'Neil
U.S. News and World Report: Best College Rankings
Wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education College Rankings
How Can We Stop Algorithms Telling Lies
Big Data is Coming to Health Insurance
Why We Need Accountable Algorithms
Digital Redlining and Privacy with Chris Gilliard
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9/14/2017 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
Cathy Davidson shares about her book, A New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux on episode 169 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We’ve divided things up into very strange and restrictive categories in a world where those categories are completely merged and mixed and changing every minute.
—Cathy N. Davidson
Every generation has some new technology which we’re convinced is going to destroy us.
—Cathy N. Davidson
I believe in being skeptical about technology and therefore learning how to use it well.
—Cathy N. Davidson
Resources
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson*
How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples (Cathy shares about class constitutions)
Quizlet
More or Less Technology in the Classroom? We're Asking the Wrong Question, by Cathy Davidson in FastCompany
Revolutionizing the University for the Digital Era, by Michael Roth in The Washington Post
An Educator Makes the Case that Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up, by Craig Calhoun
Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World, by Cathy N. Davidson
American Colleges Will Fail Kids Without These Five Crucial Upgrades, by Pamela Swyn Kripke
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9/7/2017 • 41 minutes, 19 seconds
How to Effectively Use Presentation Tools in Our Teaching
Teddy Svoronos talks about how to effectively use presentation tools in our teaching on episode 168 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A real tech win to me is a device that both enhances the student experience and also reduces friction.
—Teddy Svoronos
Think very carefully about what will enhance the learning of the people watching the presentation.
—Teddy Svoronos
When we adopt technology, there are are two considerations: how valuable it is and how much friction is it going to introduce.
—Teddy Svoronos
Resources Mentioned
Teddy was on: Mac Power Users 383 and Mac Power Users 319
Bonni was on: Mac Power Users 240 (workflow segment)
Slide Docs via Nancy Duarte
Slideuments via Garr Reyolds
Apple Watch
Poll Everywhere
Simpsons - Star Wipes
Example of one way Teddy used animations in explaining sampling distributions: deriving likelihoods
Slideology* by Nancy Duarte
Teddy’s post: In Praise of Goodnotes
More from Teddy on Live Annotation of Student Work with Goodnotes
Teddy’s post: A Good Day to Keynote Hard
Apple Pencil
Surface Pro*
Surface Pen
Doug McKee’s post: Teaching Online with Zoom, Duet Display, and PDF Expert
Attendance2
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8/31/2017 • 38 minutes, 26 seconds
EdTech Across the Disciplines
Maria and Ben share about educational technology across the disciplines on episode 167 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There’s really no end to the ways screencasting can be used.
—Ben Kahn
Don’t try to go it alone, because there’s such a great community out there that wants to help.
—Ben Kahn
What’s often driving these really unique, innovative uses of technology is a desire to connect with students.
—Maria Erb
Resources Mentioned
University of Portland TechTalk Podcast - What is Digital Pedagogy?
Reddit
VoiceThread
FlipGlid
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Kaltura CaptureSpace
Tapes
SnagIt
Jing
Padlet
Genius
Kendrick Lamar
Hypothes.is
Techtalk: To Reddit or Not to Reddit, That is the Question
Techtalk: Bringing Ancient Texts to Modern Life (touches on screencasting and VoiceThread)
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8/24/2017 • 42 minutes
Healing Conversations About Racial Identity
Bruce Hoskins and I attempt to model how to have healing conversations about racial identity on episode 166 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People are not necessarily the problem, it’s what people are taught that is the problem.
—Bruce Hoskins
If we want to create different behavior, we have to change the behavior at the institutional level rather than on the individual level.
—Bruce Hoskins
Resources Mentioned
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher* by Stephen D. Brookfield
Sociology in Praxis
Strange Fruit Sociology
www.brucehoskins.com
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8/17/2017 • 39 minutes, 52 seconds
Teaching Lessons from Course Evaluations
Dave Stachowiak and I talk about teaching lessons from my course evaluations on episode 165 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I hope students realize that I’m learning too, and I’m willing to grow and change and adapt.
— Dave Stachowiak
Is there anything worthwhile you can glean from this [evaluation] that can make you a better teacher?
— Bonni Stachowiak
Resources Mentioned
Betsy Barre talks about Research on Course Evaluations in Episode #089
The Lean Startup* by Eric Ries
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss* by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher* by Stephen Brookfield
Stephen Brookfield’s Critical Incident Questionnaire
Gardner Campell’s APGAR for Class Meetings
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8/10/2017 • 43 minutes, 5 seconds
Setting Students Up for Success from the Start
Joe Hoyle shares his expertise from 46 years of teaching and reflects on how to set students up for success from the start on episode 164 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you want to become a better teacher, start writing about it.
—Joe Hoyle
You have to start by knowing what you yourself want to accomplish.
—Joe Hoyle
There has to be a way to communicate to the students — they can’t read your mind.
—Joe Hoyle
Be sure that you communicate openly, honestly, and fairly frequently.
—Joe Hoyle
What I would hope my students write on my tombstone is, “He cared enough about us that he pushed us to be great.”
—Joe Hoyle
Resources Mentioned
Small Teaching* by James Lang
Episode 146: James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom
Episode 092: Small Teaching with James Lang
Episode 019: Cheating Lessons with James Lang
John Wooden: First, How to Put on Your Socks
What the Best College Teachers Do* by Ken Bain
Apple’s spending on R&D
Make it Stick* by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
Joe Hoyle’s office at the University of Richmond
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8/3/2017 • 41 minutes, 29 seconds
Games in the Higher Ed Classroom
Stacy Jacob talks about her experience incorporating games in her classes on episode 163 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You really have to be willing to fail.
—Stacy Jacob
Learn something new every year.
—Stacy Jacob
They need to trust me; I know where we’re going.
—Stacy Jacob
Resources Mentioned
Row Houses
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher* by Stephen D. Brookfield
Episode 122 with Keegan Long-Wheeler
Episode 125 with John Stewart
When Games Invade Real Life with Jesse Schell
Gradecraft at the University of Michigan
Episode 091: Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning Pt. 1
Choose Your Own Adventure Learning Pt. 2
A Few Gamification Resources from Stacy Jacobs
Recommendations
Bonni
Can’t Stop the Feeling - Dance Like Nobody’s Watching - The Piano Guys
Stacy Jacobs
Homesick Cookbooks by Lisa Fain*
SuperBetter
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7/27/2017 • 39 minutes, 17 seconds
What We Should Know About APIs
Kris Shaffer shares what we should know about APIs on episode 162 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
APIs are how computers talk to each other.
—Kris Shaffer
APIs are the bones of the internet.
—Kris Shaffer
It’s interesting to see how different services offer different levels of openness.
—Kris Shaffer
You can’t blame the computers, because the computers are programmed by people too.
—Kris Shaffer
Resources Mentioned
Episode #074: The Public and Private of Scholarship
Part 1: What is an API?
Part 2: Why use an API?
Part 3: Retrieving Data Through APIs
Part 4: Posting to Medium with APIs
Data for Democracy
Data for Democracy on Medium
Mike Caulfield’s blog
Mike Caulfield on Episode #138: Digital Literacy, But Which One?
Citizenfour
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7/20/2017 • 38 minutes, 38 seconds
Teaching Social Entrepreneurship in Two Worlds
Teresa Chahine shares about teaching social entrepreneurship in two worlds on episode 161 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is definitely a mental barrier between traditional charity and traditional commerce.
—Teresa Chahine
Social entrepreneurship is everything that lies between charity and commerce.
—Teresa Chahine
If you’re giving people money, you’re not actually changing the status quo, you’re helping them endure the status quo.
—Teresa Chahine
Teaching, practice, and research all inform each other.
—Teresa Chahine
Embrace failure as part of the process.
—Teresa Chahine
Resources Mentioned
Kiva
Alfanar
Master of Public Health: Sustainability, Health, and the Global Environment
Social Franchising Article
Amy Collier on Not Yet-Ness
Food Truck Film: Soufra and the Refugee Food Truck
Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship* by Teresa Chahine
Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher* by Stephen Brookfield
Alfanar Campaign
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7/13/2017 • 34 minutes, 40 seconds
Motivating Students in Large Classes
Brenda Gunderson shares approaches for motivating large classes on episode 160 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I’m always looking for one new thing, one new idea to try in an upcoming term.
I think it’s important that I keep learning. And not just learning inside my own discipline, but learning outside my discipline.
Resources Mentioned
ACUE's expert series article with Brenda Gunderson
ACUE’s profile of Brenda Gunderson, who is featured in their Course in Effective Teaching Practices
Interactive Notes for Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis
Stats 250 YouTube Channel
Edsurge Article About M-Write
Brenda’s Keynote at the LASI conference Learner Analytics Summer Institute 2016: Includes iClicker data and Ecoach
Recent publication about How to help students study 'smarter'
Academic Innovation: University of Michigan
M-Write - writing to learn
Dancing with the Professors 2016
Dancing with the Professors Facebook Event Page
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7/6/2017 • 42 minutes, 50 seconds
Dynamic Lecturing
Todd Zakrajsek shares about his new book Dynamic Lecturing on episode 159 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You can’t just take bad examples of something and claim that the whole concept is bad.
—Todd Zakrajsek
If bad teaching were considered a crime, I think we’ve arrested the wrong suspect.
—Todd Zakrajsek
We always have to be mindful of how attentive the audience is at any given moment.
—Todd Zakrajsek
I can’t find any evidence that says lecturing is bad.
—Todd Zakrajsek
Resources Mentioned
Dynamic Lecturing: Research-based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness* by Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek
TIHE Episode #090 Reflections on the Lilly Conference
TIHE Episode #047 on Metacognition
Parker J Palmer
Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics* by Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, Michelle K. Smith, Nnadozie Okoroafor, Hannah Jordt, and Mary Pat Wenderoth
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6/29/2017 • 38 minutes, 33 seconds
Teaching with Wikipedia
Judy Chan shares how to teach using Wikipedia on episode 158 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
My students like teamwork now because I structure it in a way that is very supportive for everyone.
—Judy Chan
Students may not notice it’s a different tool, and it gives them a more seamless environment from one course to another.
—Judy Chan
Resources Mentioned
Judy’s Course Wiki on the UBC Wiki
Wiki Education Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked_salmon
Robin DeRosa’s post: My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice
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6/22/2017 • 30 minutes, 53 seconds
Promoting Academic Integrity
Phil Newton talks about promoting academic integrity on episode 157 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
People have cheated forever.
—Phil Newton
Think about all the good principles of assessment, but do that through the lens of academic integrity.
—Phil Newton
If you make it easy for things to happen, then they’re more likely to happen.
—Phil Newton
We don’t design assessments to catch cheaters — we design assessments so that students can show that they’ve learned.
—Phil Newton
Resources Mentioned
TIHE 19: Cheating Lessons with James Lang
Cheating Lessons*by James Lang
Tricia Bertram Gallant
TIHE 100: The Failure Episode
International Center for Academic Integrity
Contract Cheating and Assessment Design
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6/15/2017 • 36 minutes, 49 seconds
Setting Boundaries with Students and Other Questions
Kerry Moore joins me to answer a question about setting boundaries with students, along with a few other listener questions, on episode 156 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What am I like in the classroom and does that feel authentic to who I am?
— Kerry Moore
I would challenge the idea that having difficult conversations isn’t compatible with being a positive and supportive teaching presence.
— Kerry Moore
What are the ways that I’m going to make sure I’m available for connection to students with different personality styles?
— Kerry Moore
We can be friendly with our students … but if we call it a friendship, we’re setting up the students and ourselves for frustration and disappointment.
— Kerry Moore
Resources Mentioned
Question #1
Shawn asks about transitioning from being a practitioner to being more of a teacher.
Episode 101 on public sphere pedagogy with Thia Wolf
Planet Money podcast
Question #2
Lydia asks about setting boundaries with students.
Episode 099 on Encouraging Accountability with Angela Jenks
Episode 117 on The Balancing Act with Kerry Moore
April Fool’s joke by a Biola professor
Question #3
Steve asks about continuous course-improvement.
Question #4
Loic asks about getting things done without hierarchical power.
Loic pronunciation
Episode 080
The Empowered Manager* by Peter Block
French and Raven’s Bases of Power (1959)
Question #5
David-John asks about quality management for online programs.
Quality Matters
Online Learning Consortium
6/8/2017 • 41 minutes, 48 seconds
Learning and Assessing with Multiple-Choice Questions
Jay Parkes and Dawn Zimmaro share about learning and assessing with multiple-choice questions in college classrooms on episode 155 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Tests don’t hurt students—people with tests hurt students.
—Dawn Zimmaro
It’s not the multiple choice question that is problematic … it’s about how the assessment can be used.
—Dawn Zimmaro
The whole goal here is learning, not assessing.
—Jay Parkes
Technology has really expanded our ability to do some assessments and diagnostics in ways we haven’t been able to do in the past.
—Dawn Zimmaro
Resources Mentioned
Learning and Assessing with Multiple-Choice Questions in College Classrooms by Jay Parkes & Dawn Zimmaro*
Retrieval Practice
Retrieval Practice Tools
Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal
How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
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6/1/2017 • 44 minutes, 17 seconds
Teaching Lessons from The Road
Penny MacCormack (ACUE’s Chief Academic Officer) shares her teaching lessons from the road on episode #154 of the Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Throw away the fixed mindset idea that you’re born smart or not.
—Penny MacCormack
Struggle in learning is natural.
—Penny MacCormack
Never forget the power of collegiality.
—Penny MacCormack
Teaching is a skillset, and it’s a collaboration between teachers and students.
—Penny MacCormack
Resources Mentioned
ACUE website
University of Arizona for Active Learning in Large Classes module (John Pollard: the Active Learning Cycle)
Kansas State University for Preparing an Effective Syllabus module (Michael Wesch: Big Idea Syllabus)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas for Activities and Assignments With Course Outcomes module (Mary-Ann Winkelemes: Transparent Assignments)
Butler University for Facilitating Engaging Class Discussions module (Tara Lineweaver: Fishbowl Discussion)
José Bowen for Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom module
Ece Karayalcin at Miami Dade College
Kristina Ruiz-Mesa at Cal State LA
Emily Moss at Cal State LA
Cat Haras at Cal State LA
TIHE #118 with Mike Wesch
Fishbowl (conversation)
TIHE #136 with Jose Bowen
Carol Dweck
Dr. M. David Merrill - First Principles of Instruction
Christian Freidrich’s Podcasts I Listen to
Christian’s Tweet About the Teaching in Higher Ed Theme Music
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5/25/2017 • 38 minutes, 27 seconds
Pencasting and Other Ways to Incorporate Videos in Your Classes
Brandy Dudas talks about pencasting and other ways to incorporate videos in your classes on episode 153 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
I try not to over-edit.
—Brandy Dudas
I had to weigh my belief in open educational resources with being scared about what the public was going to say.
—Brandy Dudas
Give it a try and you’ll be surprised at the positive feedback you’ll get from your students.
—Brandy Dudas
Resources Mentioned
KhanAcademy
Autodesk Sketchbook
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Surface Pro*
Brandy’s Youtube Channel
Adjusted Trial Balance video, viewed almost 16,000 times
Powtoon
VideoScribe
Connectivism Video (created with video scribe)
Provincial Instructors Diploma Program at Vancouver Community College
Slideuments
Nancy Duarte
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5/18/2017 • 32 minutes, 22 seconds
Open Education Risks and Rewards
Catherine Cronin discusses open education on episode 152 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Twitter has been a big part of my learning and my teaching.
–Catherine Cronin
One of my key roles is helping learners develop their voice and their agency.
–Catherine Cronin
Openness is always continuously negotiated.
–Catherine Cronin
We need to be willing to be criticized ourselves.
–Catherine Cronin
Having a personal learning network and being able to learn from each other is essential.
–Catherine Cronin
Resources Mentioned
Catherine’s Philosophy:
I practice openness by intentionally using and reusing OER, creating and sharing my work openly (learning, teaching and research), and teaching and modeling these open educational practices (OEP). But that’s just the what. The how requires much thought and care.
I believe open educational practices can help to increase access to education, contribute towards democratising education, and help to prepare learners —in all contexts— for engaged citizenship in increasingly open, networked, and participatory culture.
Martin Weller - open is both risky and vital
Henry Jenkins
danah boyd
Mizuko Ito
Surveillance Capitalism
Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Vivian Rolfe collaborated with Catherine on the GoOPEN wiki
Degrees of Openness / Degrees of Ease
Four adjectives that describe open:
Complex
Personal
Contextual
Continuously negotiated
http://wikieducator.org/GoOPEN
Digital Storytelling 106 (DS106) course origins
Contrafabulists podcast episode #52: Marginalia, on which Audrey Watters shares her decision to un-annotate her blog and her considerations to potentially change her CC license on her site.
Catherine also encourages us to work on de-centering our northern epistemology. There are people working openly on all six continents.
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5/11/2017 • 37 minutes, 21 seconds
Exploring Meaningful Measures of Accountability
Kristen Eshleman explores meaningful measures of accountability on episode 151 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Are there ways we could be accountable for the things we value most?
–Kristen Eshleman
If we’re going to double down on outcomes-based assessment, are we going to end up designing learning for only the things that can be measured?
–Kristen Eshleman
Accept the vulnerability that allows for openness in learning.
–Kristen Eshleman
Teaching has to adjust and adapt.
–Kristen Eshleman
Resources
TIHE episode with Laura Gogia: Connected Learning for the Curious
Exploring Meaningful Measures of Accountability
TIHE 007: Personal knowledge mastery
TIHE Article: My Updated Personal Knowledge Management System
W. Brian Arthur
Keynote Speech: Combining Complexity Theory with Narrative Research with David Snowdon
Harvard Business Review: A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making
Santa Fe Institute: Complex Adaptive Systems
Cynefin Framework
SenseMaker
Davidson Digital Learning R + D
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5/4/2017 • 39 minutes, 57 seconds
All-Recommendations Episode to Celebrate 150 Episodes
Bonni Stachowiak shares community members’ recommendations on episode 150 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Resources
James Lang recommends What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain*
Ken Bain - What the Best College Teachers Do on TIHE Episode 036
Beth Cougler-Blom recommends Coursera’s Learning How to Learn course from Barbara Oakley
Check out Beth Cougler-Blom’s posts on Facebook Live: Part 1 and Part 2
Beth’s post about podcasts
Beth’s blog
Isabeau Iqbal recommends FitnessBlender
Linda Oakleaf recommends The Complete Idiot's Guide to Teaching College by Anthony D. Fredericks *
Steven Michaels recommends the Teaching in Higher Ed Slack Group
TIHE Episode 140 with Steven Michaels on Thinking Outside the LMS
The Public Domain Review
Ken Bain recommends Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang*
VoiceThread (unofficial recommendation)
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4/27/2017 • 20 minutes, 6 seconds
Giving Voice and Face to the Illness Experience
Rebecca Hogue talks about giving voice and face to the illness experience on this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Some people are inherent share people and other people aren’t.
—Rebecca Hogue
I’d rather you stumble with a good intention than not try at all.
—Rebecca Hogue
When you’re going through cancer, humor is a release.
—Rebecca Hogue
It’s humor in the moment that gets you through it.
—Rebecca Hogue
Resources
Rebecca’s blog (livingpathography.org)
One of Rebecca’s posts: It All Started …
ShouldIBlog.org
Rhizomatic Learning 14
David Elpern defines pathography as “a narrative that gives voice and face to the illness experience. It puts the person behind the disease in the forefront and as such is a great learning opportunity for all care givers and fellow sufferers.”
There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love* by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell
BAYS Anthology: Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland: An Anthology* by Meaghan Calcari Campbell, Laurie Hessen Pomeranz, and Robin Bruns Worona
Virtually Connecting
Virtually Connecting ePatients
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4/20/2017 • 31 minutes, 12 seconds
Literally Unbelievable
Bronwyn Harris shares stories about students who were incredible, some of whom aren’t in our classrooms and some of whom are, on episode 148 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
These were all kids who had voices … but I wanted to amplify their voice.
—Bronwyn Harris
Kids will live up or down to your expectations.
—Bronwyn Harris
If we start thinking of all kids as our kids, things are going to be much better.
—Bronwyn Harris
Resources
Literally Unbelievable by Bronwyn Harris*
Serial Podcast
Urban Promise Academy - Oakland
Kevin Gannon on TIHE Episode #52, “Students aren’t our adversaries.”
4/13/2017 • 41 minutes, 45 seconds
Racial Identity in the Classroom
Stephen Brookfield discusses racial identity in the classroom on episode 147 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
For the first half of my life I was race blind.
–Stephen Brookfield
I was colluding in a system and in practices that reinforced racism without consciously being aware of this.
–Stephen Brookfield
Most white people grow up with these elements in their consciousness but are unaware that they’re there.
–Stephen Brookfield
We’re here to challenge, rather than to reassure.
–Stephen Brookfield
We know that we’ll have been successful when … some of our comfortable assumptions are being questioned.
–Stephen Brookfield
Resources
TIHE15: How to get students to participate in discussion with Stephen Brookfield
TIHE98: The Skillful Teacher with Stephen Brookfield
The Skillful Teacher by Stephen Brookfield*
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
A Conversation with My Black Son, a New York Times OpEd Video
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan*
Eduard C. Lindeman
Michel Foucault
Derald Wing Sue’s books*
Videos of Derald Wing Sue
Presumed Incompetent by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris*
TIHE123: Presumed Incompetent with Yolanda Flores Niemann
Stephen Covey on Trust
The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill*
David Bohm
www.todaysmeet.com
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4/6/2017 • 51 minutes, 34 seconds
James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom
James Lang interviews Ken Bain about motivation in the classroom on episode 146 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It’s the question that the goal entails that becomes so driving for the students.
–Ken Bain
Students are most likely to take a deep approach to their learning when they’re trying to answer questions.
–Ken Bain
Teach less, better.
–Ken Bain
We are currently interested in certain questions because we were once interested in another question.
–Ken Bain
Resources Mentioned
James Lang was previously on Teaching in Higher Ed on:
Episode 19: Cheating Lessons
Episode 92: Small Teaching
Ken Bain was previously on Teaching in Higher Ed on:
Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do
Small Teaching* by James Lang
Ken’s books *
James’s books*
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3/30/2017 • 31 minutes, 19 seconds
When Things Will Just Have to Do
Bonni Stachowiak shares about when things will just have to do on episode 145 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Podcast Answer Man: Equipment
Apple AirPods
TIHE episode 117: The Balancing Act with Kerry Moore
How to Create a Pencast
Retrieval Practice Website
Retrieval Practice Tools
Sabbatical Beauty
She Was in a Hippity Hopity Mood: BBC Reporter Breaks Silence
Teaching Naked* by Jose Bowen
Getting Things Done* by David Allen
Patreon
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3/23/2017 • 25 minutes, 56 seconds
Digital Literacy – Then and Now
Bryan Alexander shares about digital literacy - then and now - on episode 144 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Most of us were not trained in participatory media, and we haven’t really integrated that into our teaching.
—Bryan Alexanderhttps://teachinginhighered.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=e0b1dd6dc9
A key part of digital literacy in the social age is that it is productive. We make stuff.
—Bryan Alexander
Technical skills are an unavoidable part of digital literacy.
—Bryan Alexander
The way we’ve constructed the mobile experience is often apart from the web.
—Bryan Alexander
Resources Mentioned
Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
Web 2.0 and Emergent Multi-literacies
Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
”Creating a digital literacy report: The survey piece, Part 1” by Bryan Alexander
Doug Belshaw
Laura Gibbs - Teaching with Canvas Blog
LinkedIn
Pinterest
A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
Pinboard.in
Diigo
The Idle Words blog
”Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online” by Brooke Donald
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
We Make the Road by Walking* by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
Future Trends in Technology and Education, Bryan’s newsletter
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3/16/2017 • 39 minutes, 49 seconds
Keeping Evergreen As Professors and Educators
Teresa Soro provides ideas on how we can keep evergreen as professors and educators on episode 143 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
No brain is very smart alone.
–Teresa Soro
You go from being the expert to being the one facilitating the learning.
–Teresa Soro
We need to let go of control — it’s their learning.
–Teresa Soro
I can have great thoughts on my own, but they always get better with others.
–Teresa Soro
I think it’s important to be able to allow a little bit more room for mistakes and creativity.
–Teresa Soro
Resources Mentioned
Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
HMI Chat on Twitter
TIHE episode 115: Digital Citizenship with Autumm Caines
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3/9/2017 • 32 minutes, 23 seconds
Rethinking Assessment (and other reflections on the Lilly Conference)
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about rethinking assessment and other reflections on the Lilly Conference on episode 142 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Curiosity is one of our most deeply rooted mechanisms by which we learn.
–Josh Eyler
These experiences give people a different view of themselves.
–Thia Wolf
We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it.
–Thia Wolf
Resources Mentioned
Bonni Stachowiak’s and Naomi Kasa’s Lilly Conference Presentation
TIHE 65: Teaching Lessons from Pixar
Specifications Grading by Linda B. Nilson*
TIHE 29: Specifications Grading
”An update on the specifications grading process” by Robert Talbert
TIHE 101: Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf
Stephen Brookfield’s slides from his talk: ”Five Forms of Becoming a Teacher”
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3/2/2017 • 35 minutes, 49 seconds
The Danger of Silence
Clint Smith warns us of the danger of silence on episode 141 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I was failing to speak up on behalf of issues that didn’t directly affect me, and that caused me a deep amount of shame.
–Clint Smith
What does it look like to be more proactive in being the sort of person that I’m asking my students to be?
–Clint Smith
What is the role and responsibility of someone given access to a platform of potential power and influence?
–Clint Smith
There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.
–Clint Smith
We need to think about the ways in which our identities shape whether or not we should be speaking or listening.
–Clint Smith
The act of empathy and the act of listening … is going to be more important now than ever.
–Clint Smith
I believe deeply in the fact that I am a partner in my students’ academic journey.
–Clint Smith
Resources Mentioned
TED Talk - How to Raise a Black Son in America
This Viral Trump Syllabus Will Help You Understand How the Mess Was Made
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data
TED Talk: The Danger of Silence
Glynn Washington (from the Snap Judgment podcast) shared about contextualizing people’s stories when he spoke at the Podcast Movement conference.
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
The Four Principles:
read critically
write consciously
speak clearly
tell your truth
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2/23/2017 • 33 minutes, 31 seconds
Thinking Outside the LMS
Steven Michels helps us think outside the LMS on episode 140 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Every technology suggests how it should be used.
–Steven Michels
The hub of any class should be the discussion board.
–Steven Michels
Teaching should be learner-driven, not tool-driven.
–Steven Michels
Technology is better at bringing the world into the classroom than it is in taking the classroom out into the world.
–Steven Michels
Anything we can do as faculty members and professors to harness this natural love of learning that our students have … I think is a good thing.
–Steven Michels
Resources Mentioned
Patterns in Course Design: How instructors ACTUALLY use the LMS
Using Slack for Teaching (Steven Michels’ video)
Slack
Hypothes.is
QuickTime
SnagIt
Google Slides
Google Sites Page: Foundations of Political Thought
Remind
Diigo
Medium
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2/16/2017 • 38 minutes, 41 seconds
Effective Debriefing Approaches
Stephanie Lancaster shares ways to effectively debrief with our students on episode 139 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The role of any educator is to be there for their students: someone to talk to and lean on, or just to be with in times of need.
–Stephanie Lancaster
I learned the power of reflection in teaching and learning.
–Stephanie Lancaster
Debriefing is the process of strategically examining and analyzing what happened after the completion of an event or activity, within the context of learning.
–Stephanie Lancaster
What’s your big takeaway, and how does that connect to what you’re going to be doing in the real world?
–Stephanie Lancaster
The biggest challenge is that my students tend to want to talk just to me … really what I want them to do is to talk to each other.
–Stephanie Lancaster
Resources Mentioned
Epilogue – Stephanie’s blog post about her dad’s care after his diagnosis
The 3D model of debriefing: defusing, discovering, and deepening:
Pre-briefing
Diffusing
Discovering
Deepening
Wrap Up
TIHE episode 98: Stephen Brookfield - The Skillful Teacher
TIHE episode 15: Stephen Brookfield - How to Get Students to Participate in Discussion
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom* by Stephen Brookfield
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms * by Stephen Brookfield
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2/9/2017 • 39 minutes, 18 seconds
Yes, Digital Literacy, But Which One
Mike Caulfield prescribes a new digital literacy on episode #138 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
American Association of State Colleges and University’s (AASCU’s) The American Democracy Project (ADP)
Mike’s Blog Post: Yes, Digital Literacy, But Which One?
RADCAB
CRAAP
Article about Sam Winberg: Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online
Thinking Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman
Planet Money Podcast Episode 739 - Finding The Fake-News King
Snopes
Politifact
SciCheck
2/2/2017 • 46 minutes, 35 seconds
Teaching Naked Techniques
C. Edward Watson joins me to talk about Teaching Naked Techniques on episode #137 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Teaching Naked Techniques* by Jose Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers (2013)
Measuring Cognitive Distraction in the Automobile III
Please read while texting and driving
TIHE article: The Invitation
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1/26/2017 • 46 minutes, 48 seconds
Teaching Naked Techniques
Jose Bowen reveals Teaching Naked Techniques on episode #136 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Good teaching always starts with what matters to your students.
—Jose Bowen
What I really want is for my students to all find their own voice.
—Jose Bowen
This is going to be challenging … and I know you can do it.
—Jose Bowen
Students learn more when they believe the teacher cares about learning.
—Jose Bowen
Resources Mentioned
Episode #030 with Jose Bowen on Teaching Naked
Teaching Naked Techniques* by Jose Bowen and C. Edward Watson
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning* by Jose Bowen and C. Edward Watson
The New Science of Learning: How to Live in Harmony with Your Brain* by Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek, and Jeannie H. Loeb
S.W.E.E.T (sleep, water, eating, exercise, and time)
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1/19/2017 • 40 minutes, 10 seconds
The Spark of Learning
Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion* on episode #135 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Caring isn’t Coddling by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
VALUE rubrics from the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Planet Money Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark C. Carnes
Episode 21: Minds on Fire with Marc Carnes
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning* by James Lang
1/12/2017 • 33 minutes, 28 seconds
Teaching Creativity
Hoda Mostafa discusses teaching creativity on episode 134 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Relevance and meaning are so important for the students I teach.
—Hoda Mostafa
I had to figure out ways to learn things without relying too much on memorization.
—Hoda Mostafa
You have to guide students through the process of learning how to think.
—Hoda Mostafa
Students get engaged when it’s meaningful to them.
—Hoda Mostafa
Resources Mentioned
TIHE Episode 132: Teach Students How to Learn
Edward de Bono’s work on Thinking Tools
Creative Problem Solving
Tim Brown on creative confidence
TED Talk: On Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
Syllabus: Scientific Thinking Course
Syllabus: Creative Cairo: Human Centered Design (co-taught with Maha Bali)
Slide:ology* by Nancy Duarte
Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions* by Stephen Brookfield
Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (Volume 2) 5th Edition* by Diane Halpem
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1/5/2017 • 31 minutes, 56 seconds
My 2017 Someday-Maybe Tech List
Bonni Stachowiak reveals what’s on her someday/maybe tech list on episode 133 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
TIHE Episode #120 with Robert Talbert about Getting Things Done
Sanebox
Amphetamine (Mac) / Windows alternatives
Harvard’s H20
Mother blogs
YouCanBook.Me
Planboard
Kahoot team mode
Backdraft for Tweets during presentation
IFTTT
Expert Level Text Expander Snippets
Moom (Mac)
Better touch Tool (Mac)
Just Dance Now Apple TV game (recommended by Doug McKee)
Collaborative Annotating
Omnifocus Hotspot for Grading (Mac)
Activity (iOS and Apple Watch)
12/29/2016 • 25 minutes, 12 seconds
Teach Students How to Learn
Saundra Y. McGuire discusses how to teach students how to learn on episode 132 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learning is a process, not an activity.
–Saundra Y. McGuire
Physical activity is really important to having the brain operate at peak efficiency.
–Saundra Y. McGuire
Pretending that you’re teaching information is a great way to practice retrieval of that information.
–Saundra Y. McGuire
Students who may be failing our courses miserably are not failing because they are not capable; they are failing because they don’t have strategies to successfully manage the information.
–Saundra Y. McGuire
When we believe it’s possible, then we can help students believe it’s possible.
–Saundra Y. McGuire
Resources Mentioned
Teach Students How to Learn* by Saundra Y. McGuire
Louisiana State University’s Center for Academic Success
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success* by Carol Dweck
Bloom’s taxonomy
Earnest Everest Just
ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices
150 ways to increase intrinsic motivation in the classrooms* by James P. Raffini
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12/22/2016 • 37 minutes, 45 seconds
Peer Review of Teaching
Isabeau Iqbal shares about the peer review of teaching on episode #131 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
Formative peer reviews of teaching offer the opportunity for growth for both the reviewer and the reviewee.
–Isabeau Iqbal
Despite the fact that you might have decades of experience and high student evaluations of teaching, it’s still nerve-wracking.
–Isabeau Iqbal
There are best practices in peer review, but often those don’t get followed.
–Isabeau Iqbal
Resources Mentioned
UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s Formative Peer Review of Teaching Resources
Isabeau Iqbal’s Publications on Peer Review of Teaching and Dissertation
Josh Eyler and others tweet about Faculty Owl Days at Rice University
On Being Observed by David Gooblar
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching’s Peer Review of Teaching Post
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12/15/2016 • 33 minutes, 47 seconds
Digital Redlining and Privacy
Chris Gilliard talks about digital redlining and privacy on episode 130 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
Unless you have a really keen understanding of how filtering works, you often don’t know what you’re not getting.
–Chris Gilliard
Both with faculty and students, the awareness of how closely we’re watched when we’re on networks is not high.
–Chris Gilliard
Digital redlining is tech policies, practices, pedagogy, and investment decisions that reinforce class and race boundaries.
–Chris Gilliard
Resources Mentioned
Black Box Society* by Frank Pasquale
Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy
Gross Pointe Blank
8 Mile
The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehasi Coates
TIHE 130: Undercover Professor Episode (Mike Cross)
Sarah Goldrick-Rab
Tresse McMillian Cottom
Joe Murphy recommended we watch Chris’ talk at Boston University
12/8/2016 • 35 minutes, 44 seconds
The Shared Journey
Bill Dogterom shares about mentoring and the shared journey on episode #129 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
If they know that you really do have their best interests at heart, they’ll teach you how to teach them.
–Bill Dogterom
What I like to do most is to walk with people and to learn from them as much as they learn from me.
–Bill Dogterom
For me, it’s more of a shared journey than a pure mentor relationship.
–Bill Dogterom
If they know that you’re actually listening to them, they will let you into their story.
–Bill Dogterom
Resources Mentioned
“People are not problems to solve, but mysteries to explore.”
-Eugene Peterson
The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth* by Gerald G. May
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Bonni Stachowiak shares about her experience at the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Conference on episode #128 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Resources Mentioned
OLC Accelerate 2016 Conference
Research in Action podcast
Periscope
HigherEdScope
Learning Lab Show
Podcast Recommendations from the #podpanel
TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast
Women Who Wine in Education
DACA
Bonni's OLC Conference Session Materials
Minerva Schools
Slideology* by Nancy Duarte
OpenEd 2016
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11/23/2016 • 29 minutes, 18 seconds
Retrieval Practice Tools
Bonni Stachowiak shares about retrieval practice tools on episode #127 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into our students’ heads. What if instead we focus on getting information out of our students’ heads?
—Pooja Agarwal
Forgetting is the friend of learning.
—Robert Bjork
As we use our memories, the things that we recall become more recallable.
—Robert Bjork
Resources Mentioned
Episode 194: Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal
Episode 072: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning with Robert Bjork
Remind
Poll Everywhere
Slido
Kahoot
OLC Conference Session Website and Materials
Retrieval Practice website
Humorous note from Andrew, our podcast editor, to Bonni, that was too good not to share here: "That 'get back up again' song has got nothing on the original inspirational song"
11/17/2016 • 22 minutes, 25 seconds
Empathy Toward Greater Inclusion
Jackie and Rob Parke share about empathy toward greater inclusion on episode #126 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Resources Mentioned
Even the Rat Was White*
Eatwell Tableware Set for people with Alzheimer's
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11/10/2016 • 33 minutes, 40 seconds
Using Open Educational Resources in Your Teaching
John Stewart shares how he uses Open Educational Resources (OER) in his teaching on episode 125 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Any time you’re doing experimental work, you can anticipate some of the problems, but not all of them.
–John Stewart
Laziness at the faculty level hasn’t been invented recently.
–John Stewart
It surprised me what amount of control of the course that faculty cede to the textbook industry.
–John Stewart
Think about how you can take the time both for yourself and for your students to share what you’re doing.
–John Stewart
Resources Mentioned
John Stewart’s Digital Projects
Very Bad Wizards Episode #99
iBooks
After Newton
OU Create
FeedPress
Rezzly (used to be called 3D Game Lab)
MERLOT II
eXperience Play
GOBLIN
11/3/2016 • 35 minutes, 13 seconds
Intercultural Learning
Maha Bali talks about intercultural learning on episode 124 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
By spending a lot of time with people who are different than yourself, you get to know yourself even better.
–Maha Bali
When you leave your culture and go to live somewhere else it helps you question your values, what you take for granted, and your assumptions.
–Maha Bali
You need deep, sustained interaction with a person or a group of people to be able to understand their culture.
–Maha Bali
Resources Mentioned
Maha’s PhD Thesis: Critical Thinking in Context: Practice at an American Liberal Arts University in Egypt
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice* by Michael Byram, Adam Nichols, and David Stevens
The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language by Caryl Emerson
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Milton J. Bennett
Hannah and the Talking Tree by Elke Weiss
The Lion Guard song: We Are the Same
Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space Theory
Edward Said
10/27/2016 • 37 minutes, 36 seconds
Presumed Incompetent
Yolanda Flores Niemann dialogs about being presumed incompetent in academia on episode #123 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
Only about 20% of faculty are people of color.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann
No matter how you think of yourself, you cease to be the independent scholar … and you become what the environment needs you to be because you are one of the few people of color.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann
We need to mentor women to not be afraid to negotiate.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann
The millennials are ... one of our most social-justice and equality-minded generations.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann
The responsibility for knowing about issues of race, class, and gender identity, and being able to mentor students around these issues, is a responsibility that needs to be shared.
—Yolanda Flores Niemann
Resources Mentioned
The Making of a Token by Yolanda Flores Niemann
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
“They Forgot Mammy Had a Brain” by Sherrée Wilson, a chapter in Presumed Incompetent
Meg Urry on Teaching in Higher Ed #069, talks at one point about negotiation
Inclusive Teaching in the STEM Classroom, a video series by Vanderbilt’s Center for Faculty Development
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10/20/2016 • 37 minutes, 59 seconds
Game-based Learning
Keegan Long-Wheeler talks about game-based learning on episode 122 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Resources Mentioned
Goblin
eXperience Play
Open Education Conference 2016
Stephen Colbert’s Escape from the Man-sized Cabinet
Healing Words
Twine
Video of Keegan sharing about his domain of one’s own
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10/13/2016 • 36 minutes, 20 seconds
Networked Pedagogy
Bonnie Stewart talks about networked pedagogy on episode #121 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
Networks are a foundational structure of human experience.
—Bonnie Stewart
Recognizing that there is a distinction between the personal and the private can be encouraging for people who may feel uncomfortable with the whole idea of sharing.
—Bonnie Stewart
Identity is something that we’re always curating.
—Bonnie Stewart
I realized that I’ve been curating my identity since long before there was the internet … with the things that I save.
—Bonnie Stewart
Resources Mentioned
Hybrid Pedagogy
Digital Pedagogy Lab
Networked Pedagogy Graphic on Bonnie's site
10/6/2016 • 38 minutes, 17 seconds
Get More Meaningful Work Done
Dr. Robert Talbert talks about how to get more meaningful work done on episode 120 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the episode
90% of the emails I get in my inbox are not actionable.
—Robert Talbert
The human brain is fantastic for processing information but it’s terrible for storing information.
—Robert Talbert
Sometimes the busyness we have is entirely self-inflicted; we work hard because we’re disorganized.
—Robert Talbert
Say yes to the things that matter and say no to everything else.
—Robert Talbert
Resources
Getting Things Done (Updated Edition)* by David Allen
Getting Things Done: Five Steps Overview
The Five Steps
Capture
Dave and Bonni talk about capture on episode #32
todoist
Recommendations from the Last TIHE episode with Robert Talbert
Bonni talks about inboxzero on episode #56
Capture sticky notes using Evernote
Clarify
Dave and Bonni talk about clarify and organize on episode #41
Organize
Evernote
Review
Google Keep
Episode #64: The Weekly Review
Episode #78: Checklists
Essentialism* by Greg McKeown
Engage
Amazon’s Grocery Delivery Service*
Amazon Dash
OmniFocus
9/29/2016 • 43 minutes, 2 seconds
Bridging the Culture Gap
Annemarie Perez shares about bridging the culture gap in the classroom and other broad thoughts about cultural competence on episode 119 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Resources Mentioned
Annemarie’s Teaching Manifesto Blog Post
Chicano or Chicana
Latino
Latina
Hispanic
The Case for ‘Latinx’: Why Intersectionality is Not a Choice
9/22/2016 • 35 minutes, 53 seconds
Teacher Becomes Student Through LIFE101
Mike Wesch describes his becoming a learner and what it taught him about teaching on episode 118 of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the Episode
I’ve always picked things that are really hard and bring out fears inside me.
—Mike Wesch
Students get out of it whatever they put into it.
—Mike Wesch
I take the philosophy that grading can play different roles depending on the course.
—Mike Wesch
What matters when students graduate is how they’ve changed, not just their GPA.
—Mike Wesch
When I started teaching in my late 20s, it was really easy to relate to students. As I was in my late 30s, it was much more difficult.
—Mike Wesch
Life is too short to not experiment.
—Mike Wesch
Resources Mentioned
The Sleeper, by Mike Wesch
Rethinking the Syllabus (with a Course Trailer)
Links to Presentations and Videos by Mike Wesch
Daniel Pink’s Research on Motivation: Drive*
LIFE101 Podcast
LIFE101: Episode 1
What Baby George and Handstands Have Taught Me About Learning
Mike Wesch’s YouTube Channel
9/15/2016 • 39 minutes, 19 seconds
The Balancing Act
Kerry Moore discusses how to balance the responsibilities of caring for an elderly loved one with our teaching responsibilities.
Quotes from the episode
We’re trying to help people grow their own ability to meet needs and to have agency in their own lives.
—Kerry Moore
Sometimes challenges can help us to … bounce forward into new skills and knowledge.
—Kerry Moore
Nothing is going to make the loss of someone you love or a disability okay, but the way we walk through it makes a big difference in what our life looks like on the other side.
—Kerry Moore
A healthy locus of control has a realistic assessment of the things that I am in control of and also the things that I’m not.
—Kerry Moore
Caregiving [has] a lot of physical demands but also a lot of emotional demands.
—Kerry Moore
Resources Mentioned
Radiolab episode: The Bitter End
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Council on Aging
9/8/2016 • 36 minutes, 48 seconds
Connected Learning for the Curious
Laura Gogia shares about connected learning on this week’s Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The most important part of [connected learning] is helping others understand the connections between all the different aspects of their life.
—Laura Gogia
It’s not a tool-first [mentality] … it’s which tool matches up with what I’m trying to achieve.
—Laura Gogia
Assessment becomes about documenting [the] process of learning.
—Laura Gogia
Resources Mentioned
Connected Courses at Virginia Commonwealth University
Journal for Prison re-entry
Academic Transformation Lab at VCU
http://lauragogia.com/connected-course-design/
Julian Sefton-Green
Connected learning coaching
Laura’s dissertation on connected learning
Bonni mistakenly attributed this Twitter analysis tool to being introduced by Robert Talbert on the TIHE Slack channel, but it was actually Ken Bauer who shared it.
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9/1/2016 • 31 minutes, 23 seconds
Bonus Clip on Conferences with Autumm Caines
This bonus clip answers a question from Heather about conferences.
Lilly Conferences
OLC Accelerate
DigPed Lab institute
Action track with Audrey Watters
Open Ed
ELI
New Media Consortium
Virtually Connecting
8/29/2016 • 8 minutes, 28 seconds
Digital Citizenship
Autumm Caines shares about digital citizenship on this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes from the Episode
We have the technology to have conversations with diverse people.
—Autumm Caines
As educators, we need to empower people to feel okay about making mistakes.
—Autumm Caines
Resources
Tracy Clayton on Twitter https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty
Another Round Podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/AnotherRound
Heben Nigatu on Twitter https://twitter.com/heavenrants
Silence and respect episode of Reply All
Annemarie Perez
Tressie
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8/25/2016 • 34 minutes, 29 seconds
Engage the Heart and Mind Through the Connected Classroom
Ken Bauer shares how to engage the heart and mind through the connected classroom.
Quotes from the episode
I’m not going to be there and lecture; I want to really connect with my students.
—Ken Bauer
The number one difficulty for faculty in innovating in their practice is … fear.
—Ken Bauer
You’ve just got to take baby steps and change those things that you can change.
—Ken Bauer
Resources Mentioned
Amy Collier’s session at Campus Technology 2016 Conference: Love and Risk in Education - A Call to Resistance
Student Paola's video about her experience in Ken’s class
Confusiasm - confusion and enthusiasm
Nancy White on Twitter
Ken’s blog post about his teaching evaluations
Michelle Miller on episode #026
Gardner Campbell on episode #107
Common Craft’s RSS explanation video
Flipped Learning Network
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8/18/2016 • 36 minutes, 44 seconds
Blended Course Design
Katie Linder shares about blended course design on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 113.
Quotes from the episode
Blended learning is not just a trend, and we’re starting to see technology integrated in really intentional ways.
—Katie Linder
One of the key things is alignment … between what you’re doing outside of the classroom and inside of the classroom.
—Katie Linder
Say to your students, “I’m going to give you an activity to do, and I’m going to lay out some guidelines for it, but I’m also going to give you quite a lot of freedom.
—Katie Linder
In the online environment, [social interactions] can still happen, but they just need to happen more intentionally.
—Katie Linder
There are ways that you can build in social presence activities into a blended classroom, both face-to-face and online, that are really encouraging interactions between you and your students and between your students and each other.
—Katie Linder
Because we don’t naturally reflect, it means that we have to intentionally build in reflection for our students.
—Katie Linder
Resources Mentioned
Blended Course Design Resources:
Book site: The blended course design workbook website
Order the book: The blended course design workbook (discount code = BCD20)
Book handouts: The blended course design workbook handouts
Handout: Aligned Blended Course Mapping
Handout: Weekly Course Design Task List
Handout: Choosing LMS Tools Checklist
Handout: Template for Mapping Content and Documents
Other Resources:
How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course* by Jay Caulfield
Michael Sandel’s Justice course
Goosechase for scavenger hunts
Journal Keeping* by Dannelle D. Stevens and Joanne E. Cooper
Checklists
Use checklists to teach more effectively and efficiently in higher ed
Grant Wiggins’ How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning
Episode 078: The power of checklists
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8/11/2016 • 39 minutes, 17 seconds
Radical Hope – A Teaching Manifesto
Kevin Gannon discusses Radical Hope - A Teaching Manifesto on Teaching in Higher Ed #112.
Quotes
If I want my students to take risks and not be afraid to fail, then I need to take risks and not be afraid to fail.
—Kevin Gannon
Teaching is a radical act of hope.
—Kevin Gannon
We work with the future, and that’s a really incredible responsibility.
—Kevin Gannon
Resources
Episode 052: Respect in the Classroom
Moonwalking with Einstein* by Joshua Foer
Blog: Radical Hope - A Teaching Manifesto
Blog: Radical Hope - A Teaching Manifesto (Hypothes.is annotated version)
APM Marketplace podcast
Storify
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8/4/2016 • 41 minutes
On the Horizon
Gardner Campbell on the higher ed horizon.
Gardner was previously featured on show on Episode 107: Engaging learners
Resources
Virtually Connecting
New Media Consortium
The 2016 Horizon Report: Higher Ed
Book: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science* by Michael Nielsen
Questions about the New Media Faculty-Staff Development Seminar
Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Networked Faculty-Staff Development Seminar
New Media Faculty Development Seminar
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7/28/2016 • 36 minutes, 38 seconds
Self-regulated Learning and the Flipped Classroom
Robert Talbert on self-regulated learning and the flipped classroom.
Quotes
My view about teaching changed completely when I started having kids.
—Robert Talbert
You can’t say that you are interested in teaching students how to learn and then spoon-feed them everything.
—Robert Talbert
Resources
Article: The inverted calculus course and self-regulated learning
Article: The Inverted Calculus Course: Using Guided Practice to Build Self-regulation
Article: We need to produce learners, not just students
Recommendations
Bonni: The Clarify software no longer exists.
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7/21/2016 • 38 minutes, 58 seconds
The Unexpected
Bonni Stachowiak on how the best communicators add a sense of the unexpected to their teaching.
Resources
Glynn Washington at Snap Judgment LIVE! in Ann Arbor: "The Golden Man"
“Times for telling,” introduced to me by Derek Bruff on TIHE episode 71
“A time for telling…” by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford
Listener Questions
Questions from Ari Purnama
Day one introductions
TIHE blog post: Sticky notes as a teaching tool
International education
TIHE episode 080: International Higher Education in the 21st Century (featuring Mary Gene Saudelli from Dubai)
TIHE episode 038: Steve Wheeler talks Learning with ‘e’s
TIHE episode 108: Collaboration (featuring Maha Bali from Egypt)
Takeaways
Video: How do you enjoy life, as the world burns?
Alex Blumberg’s podcast: StartUp Season 1: episode 1
7/14/2016 • 26 minutes, 13 seconds
Collaboration
Maha Bali shares about collaboration.
Quotes
The reason virtual collaboration works really well is that there’s usually no hierarchy with the person you’re working with. —Maha Bali
If you want your students to collaborate, the main role of the educator is to provide them with something where collaboration is valuable. —Maha Bali
Virtually collaborating brings the conversations to people who can’t be there in person. —Maha Bali
If you want to keep learning, I think collaboration is necessary because you need to learn from somebody and with somebody. —Maha Bali
Resources
Rhizomatic learning
The MOOC that community built
Soundtrack to the collaborative play
Virtually Connecting
MLA Commons: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities (Concepts, models, and experiments)
MLA Commons: Collaboration Keyword
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7/7/2016 • 40 minutes, 46 seconds
Engaging Learners
Gardner Campbell talks about engaging learners.
Quotes
Learning is an enormously powerful and eventful kind of experience.
—Gardner Campbell
Recognize that great ideas of all kinds come from all kinds of people at all stages of their knowledge.
—Gardner Campbell
There are some great ideas that are forever closed off to an expert because he or she is simply too conditioned by prior learning.
—Gardner Campbell
Resources
Seymour A. Papert's books
APGAR for class meetings by Gardner Campbell
Derek Bruff reflects on Gardner Campbell’s APGAR test for class meetings
Book: Smart Mobs* by Howard Rheingold
Video: Mr. Hand from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”
Song: Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill
PHPBB Discussion Forum
Book: Where Good Ideas Come From* by Steven Johnson
Hacking the Academy
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6/30/2016 • 47 minutes, 46 seconds
Undercover Professor
On this episode, Dr. Mike Cross is an undercover professor.
Guest: Mike Cross
Professor at Northern Essex Community College
Read more in a Chronicle article about Mike
Resources
EasyBib
Bacon Board Gamers
Game: Escape Room
Game: Rattlesnake
Game: Loopin' Louie
Game: Loopin' Chewie
Book: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student* by Rebekah Nathan
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6/23/2016 • 33 minutes, 9 seconds
Professional Online Portfolios
Today’s guest, Dr. McClain Watson, at University of Texas at Dallas, advocates for the importance of our students being able to: “ convince people in the professional world that they 1) know what they’re doing, 2) can be trusted, and 3) are interesting to be around?” On today’s episode: Professional Online Portfolios.
Guest: McClain Watson
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Business Communication Programs Organizations, Strategy and International Management
Bio: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/john-watson
Resources
Episode 101: Public sphere pedagogy with Thia Wolf
Going public with our learning
What are POPs?
A Domain of One’s Own on UMW site
University of Wisconsin - Stout rubric for assessment e-portfolios
Sample portfolios
http://danyalahmed93.wix.com/portfolio
http://andreacastanedae.wix.com/andycastaneda
http://olasaleh.weebly.com/
http://nathanblumenthal.weebly.com/
http://luzechanove.wix.com/misitio
http://thomasjmckee.com/
http://guohaoyue1990.wix.com/howardguomusic
http://edq130030.wix.com/elainequayle
http://adrianhovelman.wix.com/pop2
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6/20/2016 • 35 minutes, 25 seconds
Disability Accommodations and Other Listener Questions
On this week’s episode, Dave and I discuss disability accommodations and other listener questions.
1) Disability accommodations
Dyslexia simulator
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism*
2) Online scenario manager resource
Geogebra.org
Geogebra - Spreadsheet View
3) Preparation for getting doctorate degree
Julie Wilson’s bio
www.Lynda.com
www.Zotero.org
4) “Small” approaches to reclaiming teaching as a focus
TIHE 092: Small Teaching (James Lang)
www.doodle.com
The Lean Startup* by Eric Ries
Leading Change* by John Kotter
Six ways to improve your department’s teaching climate
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6/9/2016 • 38 minutes, 43 seconds
Critical Instructional Design
On this week's episode, Sean Michael Morris and I discuss Critical Instructional Design.
Guest: Sean Michael Morris
Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Cathy N. Davidson, Dave Cormier, and Jesse Stommel. He is committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education. More
Course: Critical Instructional Design
Critical Instructional Design course from Digital Pedagogy Lab
Quotes
[Instructional Design] makes very mechanical the non-mechanical nature of teaching. Certain processes are put into place where the spontaneity is taken out of teaching. The relationship is taken out of teaching. The care and nurture of the student is taken out of teaching.
—Sean Michael Morris
A lot of critical instructional design is questioning. It’s a matter of stepping back and observing and saying, “What are the assumptions of the LMS? What are the assumptions that I make and have been given to make about online learning? And how can I switch that up?”
—Sean Michael Morris
I think there is a direct correlation between the amount of restrictions we place on students and their lack of interest in what we’re doing.
—Sean Michael Morris
The more restrictions we place on learning, the less students have the ability to to explore it themselves.
—Sean Michael Morris
Resources
Article: Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Learning Management
TIHE episode about the “8 Recond Rule”
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6/2/2016 • 41 minutes, 20 seconds
Proactive Inclusivity
On today’s episode, Dr. Carl Moore and I have a dialog about proactive inclusivity.
Guest: Dr. Carl Moore
Dr. Moore is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Research Academy for Integrated Learning (RAIL) at University of DC. Prior to his current role he served as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education as well as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Temple University. More
Quotes
There are stages in which a person can honestly, truly feel [colorblind], but I do think that there is something to be said about honoring and respecting differences.
—Carl Moore
I have a strong sense of ethnic identity, but also a strong sense of identity of the mainstream majority, [as] an American.
—Carl Moore
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5/26/2016 • 27 minutes, 50 seconds
Public Sphere Pedagogy
On this week's episode, Dr. Thia Wolf shares about public sphere pedagogy.
Guest: Thia Wolf
Thia is a Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Experience Program at California State University, Chico, where she has worked since 1989. Prior to her appointment in the FYE program, she coordinated a variety of writing programs, including the first-year composition program and the writing across the disciplines program. Since 2006, she has been collaborating with faculty in several disciplines to embed public dimensions in first-year classes. Her publications have focused on collaborative learning and on public sphere pedagogy. More
Quotes
Students need to have an experience when they come to college that … gives them a sense that education is for the rest of their lives, it’s to help them do things in the world.
—Thia Wolf
I noticed that the curriculum of first year students looks a lot like the curriculum in high school … I would say that it sends the “Not ready for prime time” message.
—Thia Wolf
When [students] go public with their work, they have to stand by it, and really remarkable things happen.
—Thia Wolf
We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it.
—Thia Wolf
Resources
First-Year Experience Program at Chico State
Book in Common Program
Courses that take students' transitioning processes into account
Public sphere events where students and their course work are "center stage"
Chico Great Debate
Meet the faculty
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5/19/2016 • 34 minutes, 55 seconds
The Failure Episode
Eight faculty share their failure stories on this special #100th episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
CV of Failures
Johannes Haushofer’s CV of Failures
HBR article about Johannes Haushofer
Quotes
At the time, I felt like I had to know everything in order to be a good teacher, so instead of admitting that I didn't know the answer to the student's question, I dismissed it.
—Cameron Hunt-McNabb
I think I understand way better now what kinds of issues my students think are important.
—Doug McKee
I strongly identified with that strain of perfectionism that insists that unless every student in every class feels like every moment was a rich and profound learning experience, then I have failed.
—Jeff Hittenberger
Guest Stories
1) Katie Linder
Didn’t allow discomfort in the classroom and rushed too quickly through it.
Check out the Research in Action Podcast
2) Jeff Hittenberger
Felt like he had failed at the end of each semester.
3.) Angela Jenks
Didn’t know how much the class textbooks cost.
4.) Josh Eyler
Gave quizzes just to test that students read.
Read the conversation in Storify for Twitter
5.) Michelle Miller
Didn’t take care of a problem before it escalated.
6.) James Lang
Was not clear enough in assignment criteria.
7.) Cameron Hunt-McNabb
Thought she had to know everything to be good teacher.
7.) Maha Bali
Laughed at student’s suffering … almost.
8.) Doug McKee
Didn’t understand what issues his students thought were important.
TIHE episode 045: Calibrating our teaching (Aaron Daniel Annas)
Recommendations
Books:
Janine Utell: Dear Committee Members* by Julie Schumacher
José Bowen: Teaching Naked* by José Bowen
Sean Micael Morris: Savvy* by Ingrid Law
Cameron Hunt McNabb: Tina Fey’s advice to “Say yes” in her memoir, Bossy Pants*
Amy Collier: Quotes Anne Lamott: “These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced,” from her book Grace (Eventually)*
Tools:
Doug McKee: Piazza*
Aaron Daniel Annas: Amazon Echo*
Teaching inspiration:
Rebecca Campbell: Be kind to students. Don’t make assumptions.
Linda Nielsen: Cultivate your courage by trying out things you’re afraid of.
Lee Skallerup Bessette: Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start.
Doug McKee: Try poster sessions with students.
Peter Newbury: Get yourself into a learning community. Get on Twitter.
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5/12/2016 • 42 minutes, 33 seconds
Encouraging Accountability
Dr. Angela Jenks shares about her experiences encouraging accountability in her students on today’s episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Guest: Angela Jenks
Angela is a medical anthropologist and Lecturer, PSOE (Tenure-Track Teaching Faculty) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also directs the M.A. in Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies program.
Quotes
It’s not necessarily a kindness to not fulfill the requirements of the class.
—Angela Jenks
One of the challenges is holding standards while not turning the classroom into an adversarial situation.
—Angela Jenks
One of the things I focus on increasingly is very clear policies.
—Angela Jenks
I didn’t want the syllabus to turn into something that reads like a Terms of Service.
—Angela Jenks
Mentioned in Episode
Race Gender Science syllabus (inspired by Tona Hagen's "Extreme Makeover" of her History syllabus)
In Praise of Slowness* by Carl Honore
Podcast episodes on kindness:
Episode 057: Teaching with Twitter (Jesse Stommel)
Episode 052: Respect in the Classroom (Kevin Gannon)
Episode 019: Small Teaching (James Lang)
Podcast episode on Attitude:
Episode 062: Mindset (Rebecca Campbell)
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Allowing students to "show up.” Consider this quote from Anne Lamott (who was mentioned on Episode 070 with Amy Collier):
I had a session over the phone with my therapist today. I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston.
The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different.
The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible.
The third rule is that if you can't get over it, you must pretend that you have.
The fourth rule is that if you can't even pretend that you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay home, because it’s hard for everyone else to have you around.
And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed.
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
—Anne Lamott
5/5/2016 • 39 minutes, 13 seconds
The Skillful Teacher
Stephen Brookfield shares about his book, The Skillful Teacher, on today's episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Quotes
I think I internalized early in my career that my job was to talk, to profess. And that if I wasn’t talking, then I really wasn’t earning my money. I still feel that, and I fight against it constantly.
—Stephen Brookfield
Skillful teaching is whatever helps students learn.
—Stephen Brookfield
College students of any age should be treated as adults.
—Stephen Brookfield
Teachers need a constant awareness of how students are experiencing their learning and perceiving teachers’ actions.
—Stephen Brookfield
Resources
The Skillful Teacher*
Episode 15 with Stephen Brookfield: How to get students to participate in discussion.
4/28/2016 • 48 minutes, 17 seconds
Integrating Personal Management Techniques into Curriculum
Dustin Bakkie shares how to integrate effective study methods, learning tools, and personal management techniques as a part of your curriculum.
Guest: Dustin Bakkie
Lecturer at California State University, Chico
email: dbakkie @ csuchico dot edu
website: EpicHigherEd.com (coming soon)
twitter: @dustinbakkie
Quotes
The best time to learn something is right as you’re about to forget it.
—Dustin Bakkie
A lot of the time, students are just looking for someone who is on their side.
—Dustin Bakkie
Dustin’s effectiveness equations
Resources
Book: Deep Work* by Cal Newport
Coaching for Leaders podcast episode 233: Engage in Deep Work, with Cal Newport
Thomas Frank’s Collegeinfogeek.com
Leitner Review System
App: Anki flashcards
App: Attendance2*
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4/21/2016 • 34 minutes, 21 seconds
The Clinical Coach
On today’s episode, I have the honor of talking with Dr. Jeff Wiese about how he uses coaching skills in his teaching of residents.
Guest: Dr. Jeff Wiese
Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, is a Professor of Medicine with Tenure, and the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. He is also Associate-Chairman of Medicine, the Chief of the Charity Medical Service and the Director of the Tulane Internal Medicine Residency Program. He has also served as the course director for the Clinical Diagnosis, Biostatistics, Advanced Internal Medicine, and Medical Education courses.
Quotes
What somebody knows is not as important to me as what they can do.
—Dr. Jeff Wiese
Years ago, we were so focused on on knowledge. Now, getting the knowledge is pretty easy. The shift of becoming a great coach is moving towards … teaching people not what to think, but how to think.
—Dr. Jeff Wiese
The way you go from good to great is finding your weakest area and improving it.
—Dr. Jeff Wiese
Training is to prevent surprise. Education is to prepare for surprise.
—James Carse
Links:
Teach Better podcast episode 27: Teaching Clinical Reasoning With Geoff Connors
Dr. Wiese's Four Developmental Phases of a Teacher
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4/14/2016 • 40 minutes, 39 seconds
Teaching in the Digital Age
In this week’s episode, Mike Truong and I discuss teaching in the digital age.
Quotes
In our instant and very distracted culture … it’s critical to learn how to pay attention.
—Mike Truong
As faculty, we need to find ways that force us to slow down.
—Mike Truong
I try to prioritize in-person interactions over virtual ones whenever possible.
—Mike Truong
It is a real discipline to turn off our devices … the default is to be connected all the time.
—Mike Truong
Resources
Tim Stringer’s blog: Technically Simple
One Button Studio at Penn State
Recommendations:
Bonni
Visit APU’s Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology and check out the section on blended learning.
Article: From Showroom to Classroom: Advancing Technology in Education
Mike
Book: Hamlet’s Blackberry* by William Powers
Book: Now You See It* by Cathy Davidson (Cathy was featured on TIHE episode 28: How to see what we’ve been missing)
Book: Alone Together* by Sherry Turkle
Book: Reclaiming Conversation* by Sherry Turkle
4/7/2016 • 37 minutes, 10 seconds
Retrieval Practice
On today’s episode, I get the pleasure of talking with Dr. Pooja Agarwal about retrieval practice.
Guest: Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.
Cognitive Scientist, Memory Expert, and Education Consultant,
Founder of RetrievalPractice.org
www.retrievalpractice
www.poojaagarwal.com
Twitter: @poojaagarwal
Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. is committed to bridging the gaps between research, teaching, and policy. Passionate about evidence-based education, Pooja has conducted retrieval practice research in a variety of classroom settings for more than 10 years, in collaboration with distinguished memory scholar Henry L. Roediger, III. In addition to her career as a scientist, Pooja earned elementary teacher certification and has extensive teaching experience at K-12 and university levels. To advance the use of scientifically-based learning strategies, she contributes her expertise through collaborations with students, educators, scientists, and policymakers worldwide.
Recommendations
Bonni:
Change the culture in your classroom by asking students (in reference to retrieval practice): “What is it we’re doing right now?” and “Why are we doing it?”
Pooja:
Check out www.retrievalpractice.org for helpful resources.
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3/31/2016 • 34 minutes, 40 seconds
Strength Through Habits
Natalie Houston talks about strength through habits.
Quotes
Habits save us tremendous time and energy, but they can also lead us to doing a lot of things mindlessly.
—Natalie Houston
Sometimes we have goals or intentions that are outdated, they’re from who we used to be.
—Natalie Houston
Habits often work really well when they’re connected to each other.
—Natalie Houston
If you successfully create one habit, it’ll be easier to create others.
—Natalie Houston
All of us have habits that we’re less than happy with and they’re there because they’re meeting some need.
—Natalie Houston
Resources
TIHE episode 34: Practical Productivity in Academia (Natalie Houston)
Natalie’s Blog: re:focus now
Natalie’s articles at the Chronicle of Higher Education
Book: The Power of Habit* by Charles Duhigg
Three Steps to Creating a New Habit
Identify why you want to create a new habit
Get very clear and specific about how you’re going to measure that behavior
Track your behavior
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Lee Skallerup Bessette's Bad Female Academic posts
Natalie recommends:
Music Service: Focus at Will
3/24/2016 • 32 minutes, 38 seconds
Small Teaching
On this week's episode, James Lang shares about his book: Small Teaching
Quotes
What I started to notice was that the coaches who paid attention to these little things, and focused on small fundamentals, tended to do a lot better than the teams that didn’t.
—James Lang
I’m a big believer in the opening and closing minutes of class … I think those are really ripe opportunities for small teaching.
—James Lang
I try to do framing activities to help the students realize the value of what we’re doing.
—James Lang
Resources
Small Teaching: Small modifications in course design or communication with your students. These recommendations might not translate directly into 10-minute or one-time activities, but they also do not require a radical rethinking of your courses. They might inspire tweaks or small changes in the way you organize the daily schedule of your course, write your course description or assignment sheets, or respond to the writing of your students.
Book: The Power of Habit* by Charles Duhigg
Teaching in Higher Ed Episode 71 with Derek Bruff
Video: How to be Alone
Article: Boring but Important
MERLOT Awards
3/17/2016 • 37 minutes, 35 seconds
Choose your own adventure assessment
On this week's episode, I share my experiences with "choose your own adventure" assessments.
Background on choose your own adventure assessments:
TIHE Episode 58: Universal design for learning
What is it?
TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 1)
TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 2)
Resources
App: Scannable* by Evernote
Recommendation
Peter Felten (@pfeltenNC) from the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University shared on Twitter: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annotated Literature Database
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3/10/2016 • 16 minutes, 43 seconds
Take-aways from the Lilly Conference
On this week's episode, Todd Zakrajsek and I discuss our key take-aways from the 2016 Lilly Conference.
Guest: Todd Zakrajsek
Conference Director, Lilly Conferences California
Twitter: @ToddZakrajsek
www.lillyconferences.com
Dr. Todd Zakrajsek, Ph.D., is the former Executive Director of the Academy of Educators in the School of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Zakrajsek is the immediate past Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and prior to his work at UNC, he was the Inaugural Director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching at Central Michigan University and the founding Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Southern Oregon University, where he also taught in the psychology department as a tenured associate professor. Dr. Zakrajsek also sits on two educational related boards and several editorial boards for journals in the area of teaching and learning, is an international speaker requested regularly for keynote presentations and campus workshops, and has published widely on the topic of effective teaching and student learning.
Todd was previously featured on Episode 47: Developing metacognition skills in our students
See list of Bonni’s resources from the Lilly Conference: www.teachigninhighered.com/lillycon
Quotes
Teaching should be more than telling.
–Todd Zakrajsek
If a worker knows why they’re doing something, they’re much better at doing it than if it’s a mystery to them. It’s the same thing in teaching.
–Todd Zakrajsek
Any time we start looking at these concepts and saying, “Should we do this, or that? Do the students fall into this category or the other category?” we lose the richness of all the individuals in between.
–Todd Zakrajsek
Lecturing alone simply does not return the same kind of advances you get when you add in engaged, active kinds of learning.
–Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha
https://twitter.com/vconnecting (virtual connecting)
Video: Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University
Stephen Brookfield featured on Episode 15: teachinginhighered.com/15
Taxonomy of Significant Learning by Dee Fink
The Carl Wieman Project
From The Onion: Parents of nasal learners demand odor-based curriculum
Recommendations
Bonni
Presentation polling app: Sli.do*
Todd
Book: Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success*
3/3/2016 • 37 minutes, 11 seconds
The research on course evaluations
On today’s show, Betsy Barre joins me to share about the research on course evaluations.
Guest: Betsy Barre
Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University
After making the move to Rice in 2012, she was able to pursue her interest in undergraduate pedagogy by working with students and faculty in Rice's newly developed Program in Writing and Communication. In this role, she taught a series of disciplinary-based first-year seminars and contributed to the PWC's faculty development programming for those teaching first-year writing courses. And in July of 2014, she began her current position as Assistant Director of Rice's newly established Center for Teaching Excellence. More
Quotes
One of the biggest complaints faculty have about student evaluations is that it’s not a reflection of teaching effectiveness.
–Betsy Barre
Just because a student likes a class doesn’t necessarily mean they’re learning.
–Betsy Barre
It turns out that the harder your course is, the higher evaluations you get.
–Betsy Barre
If students think the work is valuable and something that’s helping them learn, you can give up to twenty extra hours a week of work outside of class and students will still give you higher evaluations.
–Betsy Barre
When we want to know if students have learned, one of the best things to do is just ask them if they’ve learned.
–Betsy Barre
Part of the movement in student evaluations now is to ask questions about learning, rather than questions about what the faculty members are doing.
–Betsy Barre
Notes
Article: Do Student Evaluations of Teaching Really Get an "F"?
Screencast: Student Ratings of Instruction: A Literature Review
RateMyProfessor Analysis: Gendered Language in Teaching Evaluations
Betsy’s Six Most Surprising Insights about Course Evaluations
Taken from her article “Do Student Evaluations of Teaching Really Get an “F”?”
Yes, there are studies that have shown no correlation (or even inverse correlations) between the results of student evaluations and student learning. Yet, there are just as many, and in fact many more, that show just the opposite.
As with all social science, this research question is incredibly complex. And insofar as the research literature reflects this complexity, there are few straightforward answers to any questions. If you read anything that suggests otherwise (in either direction), be suspicious.
Despite this complexity, there is wide agreement that a number of independent factors, easily but rarely controlled for, will bias the numerical results of an evaluation. These include, but are not limited to, student motivation, student effort, class size, and discipline (note that gender, grades, and workload are NOT included in this list).
Even when we control for these known biases, the relationship between scores and student learning is not 1 to 1. Most studies have found correlations of around .5. This is a relatively strong positive correlation in the social sciences, but it is important to understand that it means there are still many factors influencing the outcome that we don't yet understand. Put differently, student evaluations of teaching effectiveness are a useful, but ultimately imperfect, measure of teaching effectiveness.
Despite this recognition, we have not yet been able to find an alternative measure of teaching effectiveness that correlates as strongly with student learning. In other words, they may be imperfect measures, but they are also our best measures.
Finally, if scholars of evaluations agree on anything, they agree that however useful student evaluations might be, they will be made more useful when used in conjunction with other measures of teaching effectiveness.
Recommendations
Bonni
Think about how you administer the student evaluations.
Check out her Betsy’s screencast (see above).
Betsy
Design your own evaluation instrument and distribute it yourself,
2/25/2016 • 43 minutes, 54 seconds
Top five gadgets for teaching
On this week’s episode, Dave and I share our top five gadgets for teaching.
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
Bonni’s twitter: @bonni208
Dave’s twitter: @davestachowiak
1. Wireless presentation Remote
Commonly referred to as a “wireless presenter”*
Logitech remotes* are reliable and fairly inexpensive
Video Downloader
2. iPad Pro
iPad Pro specs
iPad Pro on Amazon*
iPad pro case from Sena
3. Apple Pencil
Apple Pencil
4. Apple Watch
use as a non-distracting notifier
use as a timer
can seamlessly record and Send reminders to OmniFocus
TIHE article about using Due app
5. Web Cams with Zoom app
Logitech web cam with 1080p *
Sign up for Zoom*
Recommendations
Bonni: iPad app for pencasting: Doceri*
Dave: Cloud database software: Airtable*
2/18/2016 • 38 minutes, 22 seconds
What the best digital teachers do
On today’s episode, I talk with Sean Michael Morris about what the best digital teachers do.
Sean Michael Morris,
Digital Teacher and Pedagogue
www.seanmichaelmorris.com
Twitter: @slamteacher
Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Cathy N. Davidson, Dave Cormier, and Jesse Stommel. He is committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education.
Quotes
There are no principles that I’m aware of in instructional design that allow for the human to creep in; it’s very mechanistic.
–Sean Michael Morris
I believe that teaching isn’t method; teaching is intuitive.
–Sean Michael Morris
Every time we step into a classroom or design a new course … we have to step back and realize we don’t know anything, that each time it is new.
–Sean Michael Morris
I approach everything by asking, “What is it that you’re wanting to get out of this?” and, “What is it that you want your students to get from this?”
–Sean Michael Morris
Recommendations
Bonni:
The courses at digitalpedagogylab.com/courses
TIHE Episode 57: Teaching with Twitter
Sean
Book: A Pedagogy for Liberation* by Paulo Friere and Ira Shor
Book: The Qualitative Manifesto* by Norman K. Denzin
Book: Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education* by Mark Mason
Book: Savvy* by Ingrid Law
Twitter user: Simon Ensor (@sensor63)
Twitter user: Pat Lockley (@patlockley)
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2/11/2016 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
Get It Together
Bonni shares strategies to help “get it together” during stressful times of the semester.
Quotes
Never succumb to the temptation to say you don’t have enough time to stop.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Listening might be the most important part of our jobs.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Sometimes we’re so worried about entertaining our students that we miss the opportunities for them to have creative insights of their own.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Celebration.
Celebrate what you are doing.
Song: Celebration by Kool & The Gang
Watch on Youtube
Stop. Collaborate. And listen.
Stop spinning, collaborate, and listen (which is maybe the most important part of our jobs).
Song: Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
Watch on Youtube
List of projects.
Create actionable names for your project tasks and use a system you trust.
Song: Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not by Thompson Square
Watch video on Youtube
Back to Life … Back to reality
Get real with your aspirations
Song: Back To Life by Soul II Soul
Watch Video on Youtube
Recommendations:
Mobile App: Due
Website: http://www.dueapp.com/
Find on the App Store*
2/4/2016 • 0
Action science – Relevant teaching and active learning
In today’s episode, Dr. Bill Robertson introduces us to “action science” and the ways he is making his teaching relevant, creating opportunities for the most active kind of learning I can imagine.
Guest: Bill Robertson
Dr. Skateboard
Bill has a Ph.D. in Education and has been a skateboarder for over thirty-five years. He has done hundreds of demonstrations nationally and internationally in festivals, events and in academic settings.
Bill has been an educator for over twenty years. His academic areas of expertise are science education, curriculum development, and technology integration. He also teaches and does research in the areas of problem-based learning and action science.
Find him online:
Linkedin
Dr. Skateboard Website
Twitter
skateboard videos
Quotes
People who are learning a second language may know exactly what they’re talking about but might not be able to express themselves.
—Bill Robertson
The things that made me successful in skateboarding made me successful in education.
—Bill Robertson
I realized there was a lot of physics and concepts in these sports that can be expressed and could be engaging and motivating for the students.
—Bill Robertson
The skills [students] are really good at can apply to something like education … if they can master something, they can probably master something else.
—Bill Robertson
You have to find ways to integrate the interests of your learners into your curriculum.
—Bill Robertson
Resources
Teaching in Higher Ed episode 015: How to get students to participate in discussion, with Stephen Brookfield
Teaching in Higher Ed post: Sticky notes as a teaching tool
Recommendations:
From listener Pamela:
Book: Training in Motion* by Mike Kuczala. Emphasizes the importance of movement for learning (and not just regular exercise)
Bill:
Non-profit organization: Skateistan. Using skateboarding as a tool for empowerment, with a large commitment for young women in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa.
Educational Portal: Edutopia. Dedicated to transforming K-12 education.
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1/28/2016 • 36 minutes, 12 seconds
Helping students discover interesting research topics
Doug Leigh on helping graduate students come up with interesting research topics.
Dr. Doug Leigh earned his PhD in instructional systems from Florida State University, where he served as a technical director of projects with various local, state, and federal agencies. His current research, publication, and lecture interests concern cause analysis, organizational trust, leadership visions, and dispute resolution. He is coeditor of The Handbook of Selecting and Implementing Performance Interventions (Wiley, 2010) and coauthor of The Assessment Book (HRD Press, 2008), Strategic Planning for Success (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and Useful Educational Results (Proactive Publishing, 2001).
Leigh served on a two-year special assignment to the National Science Foundation, is two-time chair of the American Evaluation Association's Needs Assessment Topic Interest Group, and past editor-in-chief of the International Society for Performance Improvement's (ISPI) monthly professional journal, Performance Improvement. A lifetime member of ISPI, he is also a member of the editorial board for its peer-reviewed journal, Performance Improvement Quarterly. More
QUOTES
Some of the differences between doctoral work and master’s work have to do with the amount of original data collection.
—Doug Leigh
I try to set up the expectation that when a dissertation chair is doing a good job, they’re giving a lot of feedback, and that may involve several iterations of drafting.
—Doug Leigh
Though we call them defenses, they’re not interrogations. They’re not about getting lined up to be battered with questions to prove your worth before a student is allowed into the club.
—Doug Leigh
Students who can avoid just reaffirming what’s already known are able to position themselves to do research that sticks with them as a passion.
—Doug Leigh
Resources
Murray Davis's "That's Interesting!" article at Philosophy of the Social Sciences (paywalled)
Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year (free), see the runners-up here (paywalled)
Doug also shares his reworking of Davis’s index that he developed for his students, along with representative examples ...
Interestingness via Organizing or Disorganizing: things which have been thought to be similar are truly dissimilar, or that things believe to be dissimilar are actually similar. Example: John A Bargh's "The Four Horsemen of Automaticity: Awareness, Intention, Efficiency, and Control in Social Cognition"
Interestingness by Composing or Decomposing: what seems to be varied and complex is really better understood simply, or something that is currently understood to be simple is actually elaborate, distinct, independent, heterogeneous, and diverse. Example: Quanta's "The New Laws of Explosive Networks"
Interestingness by Abstraction or Particularization: that which people assume are experienced by just a certain few are actually shared by all, or vice versa. Example: NYT's "Mass Murderers Fit Profile, as Do Many Others Who Don’t Kill"
Interestingness by Globalizing or Localizing: what seems to be a global truth is really just a more local one, or that something thought to be experienced just locally is actual more global. Example: Pew Research Center's Views on Science poll
Interestingness by Stabilizating or Destabilizating: what seems to be stable and unchanging is actually unstable and changing, or things thought to be unstable are surprisingly stabilit and even permanent. Example: BBC's "The Libet Experiment: Is Free Will Just an Illusion?" (video)
Interestingness by Effective or Ineffective Functioning: some aspect of the world that was believed to function effectively is actually ineffective, or vice versa. Example: Derek Muller's "Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos" (video)
Interestingness by Re-assessment of Costs or Benefits: what seems to be bad is in reality good, or what was believed to be good is actually bad.
1/21/2016 • 31 minutes, 30 seconds
Talking to students about vocation
Tim Clydesdale talks about how we can all better support our students in navigating college and beyond by talking about vocation.
Quotes
[Vocation] is about the type of life you want to lead and the type of person you want to be.
—Tim Clydesdale
It may be that the broader sense of who you are isn’t being fully expressed in your work but it’s being expressed in many other places: in your volunteer work, or your care for a family member.
—Tim Clydesdale
Vocation is a much better way to talk to students [than career] because it captures much more of the breadth of life as it’s really lived.
—Tim Clydesdale
Resources
Article: Inside Higher Ed
Organization: Council of Independent Colleges
The Purposeful Graduate*
What are some of the mistakes universities make when attempting to develop effective programs to facilitate more conversation about vocation?
Design a program that wasn’t organic to the campus
Hiring people who didn’t have a high emotional intelligence
Recommendations
Bonni:
Keep a list of ideas for each class you have been scheduled to teach.
Tim:
Good food helps with conversation. Use a slow cooker (Crock-Pot) with a manual switch. This allows you to cook but also be engaged in conversation.
1/14/2016 • 36 minutes, 8 seconds
Practical program development
Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students.
Quotes
We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility.
-Doug Grove
One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students.
-Doug Grove
Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made was we just took our existing structure and placed it on any new program.
-Doug Grove
Education Technology Tools
Adobe Connect web conferencing software
Dragon Naturally Speaking for speech-to-text
Recommendations
Bonni:
Batch processing on the computer. Do “like work” all at one time.
Doug:
Book: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Coaching for Leaders Episode 223: Start with Why Featuring Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek’s TED talk
1/7/2016 • 35 minutes, 12 seconds
The ethics of plagiarism detection
Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical considerations of using Turnitin and other automatic plagiarism checkers.
Guest: Stephanie Vie
twitter: @digiret
email: Stephanie.Vie@ucf.edu
Academia: https://ucf.academia.edu/StephanieVie
Stephanie Vie researches the construction of digital identities in social media spaces as well as critical approaches to composing technologies such as plagiarism detection services. Her research has appeared in First Monday; Computers and Composition; Computers and Composition Online; Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; and The Community Literacy Journal.
She is a Reviews Section Co-editor with Kairos; a Project Director with the Computers and Composition Digital Press; and an editorial board member of the undergraduate research journal Young Scholars in Writing.
Her doctorate from the University of Arizona (2007) is in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, and her dissertation, “Engaging Others in Online Social Networking Sites: Rhetorical Practices in MySpace and Facebook,” examined the use of privacy settings in these sites within a Foucauldian framework. More
Quote
The more moments you can take from an active, engaged classroom and bring them into your assignments, that’s going to significantly help reduce plagiarism.
-Stephanie Vie
Recommendations
Bonni:
Go for a walk. It’s easy to forget how great it feels walk.
Stephanie:
Book: My Freshman Year* by Rebecca Nathan
App: Wunderlist for creating to-do lists
App: Toggl for time tracking
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12/31/2015 • 35 minutes, 57 seconds
International Higher Education in the 21st Century
On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli about developing curriculum for international higher education in the 21st Century.
Guest: Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli
Author, The Balancing Act: International Higher Education in the 21st Century*
LinkedIn
Book on Amazon*
Mary Gene is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary in Quatar. More
Quote:
I create a situation where I ask my students to think about things from multiple perspectives, but also allow their voices to be honored.
–Mary Gene Saudelli
How Dubai has Changed
Recommendations
Bonni:
Book: Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes* by William Bridges
Book: The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments* by William Bridges
Mary Gene:
In difficult circumstances, stop to consider your own thoughts: When you have extreme positions, does that extreme thought mirror who you want to be as a person and what you want to believe?
12/23/2015 • 39 minutes, 25 seconds
The potential impact of stereotype threat
On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Robin Paige about the potential impact of stereotype threat inside and outside of our classrooms.
Quote
When dealing with stereotypes, one of the things we can do on our campuses or in our classrooms is create a space of accountability but without saying “You’re a bad person for thinking that.”
—Robin Paige
Resources
Academic Paper by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson: Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans
Recommendations
Bonni:
Podcast: This American Life episode 573: Status Update
Book: Between the World and Me* by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Course: 5 days to your best year ever course with Michael Hyatt*
Robin:
Book: Whistling Vivaldi* by Claude Steele
Blog: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
Tip: Use food to create a stereotype-safe environment because it becomes a thing people have in common.
12/17/2015 • 39 minutes, 29 seconds
The power of checklists
Today on episode #078 of Teaching in Higher Ed: The power of checklists
Book: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.
―Atul Gawande
We don’t like checklists. They can be painstaking. They’re not much fun. But I don’t think the issue here is mere laziness. There’s something deeper, more visceral going on when people walk away not only from saving lives but from making money. It somehow feels beneath us to use a checklist, an embarrassment. It runs counter to deeply held beliefs about how the truly great among us—those we aspire to be—handle situations of high stakes and complexity. The truly great are daring. They improvise. They do not have protocols and checklists. Maybe our idea of heroism needs updating.
―Atul Gawande
Definitions
A to-do list is what to do, a checklist is how to do it:
Article on lessdoing.com
A checklist is a documented process for something you’ll do daily; a to-do list is something you assembled yourself that you need to do at a certain point of your day:
Article on alphaefficiency.com
Philip Crawford, software entrepreneur on Quora, gives his definition:
Question on Quora
Natalie Houston on checklists
A checklist ensures communication and confirmation among members of a team and catches errors.
—Natalie Houston
There are Two kinds of checklists:
Read-do: read each step and perform the step, checking off as you go (like following a recipe)
Do-confirm: perform steps of the task from memory until you reach a defined pause point when you confirm that things have happened.
Advice for making checklists:
Keep it simple
Make it usable - need to be able to check things off
Try it out and edit as necessary
Read her article about checklists HERE
Checklist on Checklists
Atul Gawande lists things to consider when making a checklist:
You you have clear, concise objectives
Have you considered adding items that will improve communication among team members
When crafting the list, is the font sans serif?
Have you trialled the list with frontline users? And have you modified the checklist in response to repeated trials?
Class Checklist
See my class checklist HERE on Evernote. (I currently use an OmniFocus project template by Curt Clifton
TIHE Article: Use checklists to teach more effectively and efficiently
TIHE Article: Checklist for class planning efficiency
Article by the late Grant Wiggins: How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning
Recommendations:
Book: The Checklist Manifesto* by Atul Gawande
Task planning system: Trello
12/10/2015 • 24 minutes, 59 seconds
Teaching What You Don’t Know
Today I welcome to the show Dr. Terese Huston to talk about teaching what you don’t know.
Guest: Therese Huston
Faculty Development Consultant, Seattle University
Author: Teaching What You Don’t Know
Seattle University faculty page: here
Personal page: www.theresehustonauthor.com
Twitter: @ThereseHuston
Therese Huston received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She was also awarded a prestigious post-doctoral fellowship with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Therese was the Founding Director of CETL (now the Center for Faculty Development) and served as Director from 2004 to 2010. Drawing upon her background in cognitive science, she has spent the past decade helping smart faculty make better decisions about their teaching. Her first book, Teaching What You Don't Know, was published by Harvard University Press (2009).
Quotes
If I could go back to my 28-year-old self and give her one piece of advice, it would be to talk to a content expert.
-Therese Huston
I wish I had offered to take an expert to coffee once a week to brainstorm what I should be teaching.
-Therese Huston
Teaching is more than just knowing every single detail there is to know; teaching is much more about stimulating learning.
-Therese Huston
You have to be thinking, “I’ve got to do something that I know well, but if I’m going to be the best teacher I can be to my students I’ve also got to teach them some things that are perhaps outside of my comfort zone.”
-Therese Huston
No one can be an expert on this material, and what I’m going to be doing is to always look for the most recent, most important topic that I can be teaching you.
-Therese Huston
If I’m doing a good job up here, I’m going to be pushing the boundaries of what I know.
-Therese Huston
Notes
Teaching what you don’t know looks at it from two perspectives:
A subject you don’t know
A group of students you don’t understand
Things unique to people who experience minimal anxiety when teaching outside of their expertise:
They had a choice about whether or not to teach the subject
They addressed the "imposter issue" with their students
They embraced a teaching philosophy that emphasizes the idea: "I don’t need to master the material”
You have just been assigned to teach a course outside of our expertise. What are the most important steps to take in preparing to teach it?
Tell someone (deal with the imposter issue)
Find five syllabi for similar courses online
Get a timer and start practicing preparing for your class in set chunks of time.
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Therese’s book: Teaching What you Don’t Know*
Sonos speakers : See on Amazon*
Therese recommends:
Licorice tea: See on Amazon*
Book: Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and the Art of Receiving Feedback*
Book: Difficult Conversations*
Podcast about Book: Coaching for Leaders: Episode 143
12/3/2015 • 39 minutes, 1 second
Making online courses work
In today’s episode, Doug McKee joins me to share about online courses. His Introduction to Econometrics class is taught about as close to an in-person as you can get, but without being bound by geographic barriers.
Guest: Doug McKee
Associate Chair and Senior Lecturer of Economics at Yale
http://economics.yale.edu/people/douglas-mckee
Website: http://dougmckee.net/
Teach Better blog and podcast: http://teachbetter.co/
Personal Blog: www.highvariance.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachBetterCo
Quotes regarding online courses:
We weren’t lowering the price, but we were lowering the geographic barriers.
–Doug McKee
You don’t need a big film crew, and snazzy digital effects; you just need to be clear, and communicate it well.
–Doug McKee
Students show up, and they don’t have any questions. What I do is come with questions.
–Doug McKee
Links:
Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/
Zoom: http://zoom.us/
Examity: http://examity.com/
Explain Everything iPad app: App Store Link*
Recommendations:
Bonni recommends:
Sherlock: IMDB
Doug recommends:
Poster sessions with students: Read blog post here
CS50 course: Syllabus
TeachBetter podcast: episode with David Malan
11/25/2015 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
Celebrating 75 Episodes
On today’s episode, ten prior guests, as well as Dave and I, come together to celebrate 75 episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed. We look back at episodes that have had a big impact on us, take a listener question, and make recommendations.
Guests:
1) Sandie Morgan
The Eight Second Rule - Wait eight seconds to give students a change to respond
https://teachinginhighered.com/6
2) Michelle Miller
Rebecca Campbell’s - Don’t refer to students as children
https://teachinginhighered.com/62
3) Scott Self theproductivenerd.org
Rebecca Campbell - Normalize help seeking behavior by being transparent with our students
https://teachinginhighered.com/62
Mail App add-on: Act-On
4) Josh Eyler (two coming up both mentioning Cameron Hunt McNabb)
Cameron Hunt McNabb - How to bring more creative assignments to students
https://teachinginhighered.com/24
5) Janine Utell
Cameron Hunt McNabb - Creative and critical thinking and “backwards design"
https://teachinginhighered.com/24
6) Jim Lang
Amy Collier - Not-yet-ness
https://teachinginhighered.com/70
Article in the Chronicle mentioning more of Jim’s recommendations
7) Doug McKee
Zero inbox
https://teachinginhighered.com/56
The weekly review
https://teachinginhighered.com/64
Recommendation: Pinboard for read-it-later service
Pinboard
Pinner App*
Paperback Web App
8) Jeff Hittenberger
Appreciates Bonni’s vulnerability about her own teaching, that she's willing to admit her own mistakes.
Questions from a Listener:
Question: When seeking a professorship, how do you stand out from the crowd? Or, how do you find opportunities to the things you love in other career paths?
Peter Newbury from UCSD, who appeared on Episode 53, answers the question.
Recommendations:
Dave recommends:
Teaching in Higher Ed podcasts:
Guest: Anissa Ramirez
https://teachinginhighered.com/66
Guest: Meg Urey
https://teachinginhighered.com/69
Beth Buelow’s podcast:
The Introvert Entrepreneur Podcast
Episode 93: Kevin Kruse and The 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
Bonni recommends:
Podcast:
http://verybadwizards.com/episodes/75
Books:
What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
Cheating Lessons by James M. Lang
11/19/2015 • 41 minutes, 17 seconds
The public and the private in scholarship and teaching
Podcast Notes
On today’s show, Dr. Kris Shaffer talks about two topics: public scholarship and student privacy.
Guest: Kris Shaffer
Website: kris.shaffermusic.com
Twitter: @krisshaffer
GitHub: kshaffer
We don’t have a nice, fuzzy boundary between completely private and completely public like we used to.
—Kris Shaffer
We don’t advance human knowledge by publishing something and putting it inside a fence and making it hard to get.
—Kris Shaffer
Social media is about more than just projecting my identity online; it’s about cultivating a community online.
—Kris Shaffer
And by raising a question, sometimes we advance knowledge more than by simply stating a fact.
—Kris Shaffer
Links:
www.openmusictheory.com
www.hybridpedagogy.com
Open-source scholarship on Hybrid Pedagogy
Recommendations:
Bonni:
Zotero tutorials: http://universitytalk.org/zotero/
N. Cifuentes-Goodbody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctornerdis
Kris:
CitizenFour: A documentary about Edward Snowden, streaming on HBO. Watch trailer here.
Hello, by Adele: Watch here.
11/12/2015 • 38 minutes, 23 seconds
Team-based learning
Jim Sibley shares about Team-based Learning.
Podcast Notes
Team-based learning has come up a few times on the show previously (Dr. Chrissy Spencer in Episode 25). Today, however, we dive deep into this teaching approach and discover powerful ways to engage students with Dr. Jim Sibley.
Guest: Jim Sibley
Jim Sibley is Director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. As a faculty developer, he has led a 12-year implementation of Team-Based Learning in Engineering and Nursing at UBC with a focus on large classroom facilitation. Jim has over 33 years of experience in faculty support, training, and facilitation, as well as managing software development at UBC. Jim serves on the editorial board of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
Jim is an active member of the Team-Based Learning Collaborative and has served on its board and many of its sub-committees. He has mentored colleagues in the Team-Based Learning Collaborative’s Train the Trainer mentorship program. He is a co-author of the new book Getting Started with Team-Based Learning that was published by Stylus in July 2014. He is an international team-based learning consultant, having worked at schools in Australia, Korea, Pakistan, Lebanon, United States, and Canada to develop team-based learning programs.
Jim’s Book: Getting Started With Team-Based Learning
Jim's Website: www.learntbl.ca
More About Jim’s Personal Story:
The Stroke
Interview with Brainstream
Hiccups
Team-Based Learning Defined
A form of small-group learning that gets better with the bigger size of class you have. The idea is to discuss the question until you get to some sort of consensus.
Team-based learning could easily be called decision-based learning, because as soon as you make a decision, you can get clear and focused feedback. That’s what team-based learning is all about.
Think about a jury, where you need brainpower. Then imagine you’re presenting the verdict, and you look around and see five other juries, on the same case as you. You can bet they’ve put a lot of thought into the verdict, and if they all have a different verdict than you, you can bet they’re going to give feedback.
Team-based learning is not a prohibition on lecturing…but it’s in smaller amounts, and it’s for a reason like answering a student need or question. An activity will often make students wish they knew about something, then you teach it.
About Teams
The Achilles heel of group work are students at different levels of preparedness. Team discussion has a nice leveling effect.
Experience shows that smaller teams are the ones that have the most trouble
5-7 students is the ideal size for a group.
Big teams work because you’re asking them to make a decision, and that’s something teams are naturally good at.
Because team-based learning is focused on teaching with decisions, there is less opportunity for people to ride on the coattails of others.
Instructors don’t have to teach about team dynamics or decision-making processes because teams are naturally motivated to engage in good discussion (if their conclusion is different than every other group, there will naturally be a lot of feedback).
The Team-Building Process:
The instructor builds teams, trying to add diversity to each team.
The instructor of a large class can do an online survey for diversity of assets.
Even freshman classes can have diversity (different people are better at different subjects).
CATME has an online team maker function, as does GRumbler.
Should students ever elect their own teams?
Student-selected teams are typically a disaster, mostly because they’re a social entity, and you tend to pick people that are the same as you.
It does work when students are passionate about the project.
Team-based learning requires commitment:
11/5/2015 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
How to use cognitive psychology to enhance learning
Robert Bjork on using cognitive psychology to enhance learning.
PODCAST NOTES
Guest:
Dr. Robert Bjork
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA
Learning and memory; the science of learning in the practice of teaching.
The Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab
Common misperceptions
Belief that we work something like a man made recording device.
In almost every critical way, we differ from any such device." - Robert Bjork
How can it be that we have all these years of learning things and formal education and then end up really not understanding the process? You might just think by sheer trial and error during all of our educational experiences we would come to understand ourselves better than we apparently do." - Robert Bjork
We found all these different situations where the very same thing that produces forgetting then enhances learning if the material is re-studied again. Forgetting is a friend of learning." - Robert Bjork
The spacing effect
Delay in re-studying information
The environmental context
If you study it again, then you're better off to study it in a different place.
This is counter to the advice to study in a single place.
Retrieval practice
When you recall something, it does far more to reveal that you did indeed have it in your memory.
"Using our memories shapes our memory."- Robert Bjork
As we use our memories, the things we recall become more recallable. Things in competition with the memories become less recallable."- Robert Bjork
We should input less and output more."- Robert Bjork
Test yourself; retrieval practice
Low-stakes or no-stakes testing is key to optimizing learning."- Robert Bjork
"When I say they become inaccessible, they are absolutely not gone."- Robert Bjork
Interleaving
"In all those real-world situation where there's several related tasks or components to be learned, the tendency is to provide instruction in a block test. It seems to make sense to work on one thing at a time."- Robert Bjork
"We are finding that interleaving leads to much better long-term retention. It slows the gain in performance during the training process but, then leads to much better long-term performance."- Robert Bjork
"Forgetting is not entirely a negative process. There are a number of senses in which forgetting can be a good thing."- Robert Bjork
"The very same people who just performed better, substantially, with interleaving, almost uniformly said that blocking helped them learn better."- Robert Bjork
Desirable difficulties
They're difficulties in the sense that they pose challenges (increased frequency of errors) but they're desirable in that they foster the very goals of instruction (long-term retention and transfer of knowledge into new situations).
Interleaving vs blocking
Varying the conditions of learning and the examples you provide rather than keeping them constant
Spacing vs massing (cramming)
"The word desirable is key. There's a lot of ways to make things difficult that are bad."- Robert Bjork
The generation effect
Any time you can take advantage of what your students already know and give them certain cues so that they produce an answer, rather than you giving them an answer, you greatly enhance their long-term retention."- Robert Bjork
Incorporating generation is a desirable difficulty but people have to succeed at the generation. If they fail, it is no longer a desirable difficulty."- Robert Bjork
Errors are a key component of effective learning."- Robert Bjork
Successful forgetting
Memory relies on being in the same situation
Present it in a different context, produces longer-term learning
Encode the information differently; encoding variability
Retrieval is powerful, but depends on success to make it so
Many things are involved in remembering people's names." - Robert Bjork
Self regulated learning
The key is for us all to learn how to learn more effectively.
10/29/2015 • 33 minutes, 37 seconds
Flipped out
Derek Bruff gives his unique take on the flipped classroom… what to have the students do before they enter the classroom and what to do once they get there.
PODCAST NOTES
Guest:
Dr. Derek Bruff
On Twitter
His blog
Ph.D., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2003
Director, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, November 2011 to present
Bruff, D. (2015). An indirect journey to indirect impact: From math major to teaching center director. In Rogers, K., & Croxall, B. (Eds.), #Alt-Academy. Online: MediaCommons
The flipped classroom
Shin, H. (2015) ‘Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading’, The National Teaching & Learning Forum, 24(4), pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1002/ntlf.30027.
What are the experiences and activities we want to have our students engage in that will help them make sense of this material and have them do something interesting with it?" - Derek Bruff
Eric Mazur - learning as a 2 stage process
Transfer of information (during class)
Assimilation of that information by the students (outside the classroom)
A definition
A shift in time to that process
Class time spent on the assimilation process
The classic flipped classroom
Students encounter the info before class
Come to class already having exposure
Practice and feedback
Flipped Classroom resources
Vanderbilt flipping the classroom
FlippedClassroom.org
The Learning process
If students aren’t doing the pre-work before they come to class, the time together isn’t going to be well-served." - Derek Bruff
Concerns that the flipped classroom is doubling the work for the students.
First exposure
Effective Grading, by Barbara Walvoord
Schwartz, Daniel L. and Bransford, John D.(1998)'A Time For Telling',Cognition and Instruction,16:4,475 — 522
Diet coke and Mentos experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS2vG1o7Op4
This video is just an example of the Mentos/Diet Coke experiment; it isn't Derek's daughter
Creating times for telling
Students first need to encounter a problem, or a challenge, or something mysterious… and then that provides motivation to hear the 15 minute [explanation]." - Derek Bruff
Linear algebra course
Look at the board game Monopoly. What are the best places to buy on the board?
Markov chain modeling
Classes should do hands-on exercises before reading and video, Stanford researchers say. (2013, July 16). Retrieved 21 October 2015, from http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/flipped-learning-model-071613.html
Even when you have defaults [in your teaching], you want to have good defaults..." - Derek Bruff
Peter Newbury on Teaching in Higher Ed talks about Peer Instruction
RECOMMENDATIONS
Bonni recommends:
Pictures as a means for reminders
Derek recommends:
The adventures of Babage and Lovelace
10/22/2015 • 39 minutes, 20 seconds
Not yet-ness
Amy Collier joins me to talk about not yet-ness, geekiness, Jazzercise, Stevie Ray Vaughan, teaching, and learning.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Amy Collier
Amy's blog
Connect with Amy on Twitter
Amy admits to some shenanigans
Stevie Ray Vaughan sings Mary Had a Little Lamb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGphy7XeZk
The great thing about Lego is that it gives kids these tools and they don't have to be built a certain way." - Amy Collier
Vaughn builds Lego with instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=nMohv6GQBHc
Vaughn builds Lego without instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXtAcHIGq4
Thoughts on education and teaching
You can work with students to do something related to what you're talking about in class, but they can find creative ways to do things you might not have predicted." - Amy Collier
...finding out what drives them, keeps them coming back, and helping them find their own voice - that's what education is about. That's where I find the most joy."
Not Yet-Ness
Amy's post on Not Yet-Ness
Jen Ross
Creating conditions for emergence
Living in that not yet-ness...
When you embrace not yet-ness, you are creating space for things to continue to evolve." - Amy Collier
By not creating space for those things, we end up creating a more mechanistic approach to education, rather than something that feels more human and more responsive to our humanity." - Amy Collier
Multidisciplinary examples
Domain of One's Own
They have this flexible interface while also connecting to a community
Messiness
How do we evolve the ways in which we understand what learning is?" - Amy Collier
More conversation is needed
Amy invites us to consider for which students not yet-ness works best and for which students might it cause some kind of disequilibrium that will cause them not to be successful in their educational experience?
More on not yet-ness
Audrey Watters: Privileged Voices in Education
Embodiment
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Doug McKee's advice: "Your job is to move them one step along a path. You can do that job no matter where they are when they enter your class."
Amy recommends:
Anne Lammot
“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." - Anne Lammot
We are human and our dance is one of the things that we bring to a human interaction." - Amy Collier
Closing notes
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10/15/2015 • 38 minutes, 15 seconds
Correcting mental models
Meg Urry shares approaches we can use to help our students correct inaccurate mental models and grasp complex information.
PODCAST NOTES:
Correcting inaccurate mental models
Guest: Dr. Meg Urry
Connect with Meg on Twitter
Interest in science
At some moment it clicked and I understood what it meant. Not only was that the moment that I started to like physics, but also the moment I realized everybody can learn physics if they get this key that unlocks the door. You don’t want to leave them in the same state that I was in… of wondering why the heck we’re doing this… You want people to get over that hump and suddenly see that this is really simple, straightforward, beautiful, and useful." - Meg Urry
Gender discrimination in the sciences
“It was very typical for me to be one of the only women in the class and the guys just sort of took over." - Meg Urry
“I always assumed that if someone claimed authority about something, that they must, indeed, know about it. It turns out lots of people do that all the time." - Meg Urry
“When I entered graduate school in 1977 at John Hopkins university, it had allowed women in as undergraduates only since 1970." - Meg Urry
It hasn’t been easy [for women]." - Meg Urry
People who feel different than the norm (who feel outside the tribe) have a harder time learning." - Meg Urry
Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
Moss-Racusin, C. A., Dovidio, J. F., Brescoll, V. L., Graham, M. J. and Handelsman, J. (2012) ‘Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(41), p. 16474. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211286109.
(Moss-Racusin et al., 2012)
Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender disparity persists within academic science. Abundant research has demonstrated gender bias in many demographic groups, but has yet to experimentally investigate whether science faculty exhibit a bias against female students that could contribute to the gender disparity in academic science. In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science faculty from research-intensive universities rated the application materials of a student—who was randomly assigned either a male or female name—for a laboratory manager position. Faculty participants rated the male applicant as significantly more competent and hireable than the (identical) female applicant. These participants also selected a higher starting salary and offered more career mentoring to the male applicant. The gender of the faculty participants did not affect responses, such that female and male faculty were equally likely to exhibit bias against the female student. Mediation analyses indicated that the female student was less likely to be hired because she was viewed as less competent. We also assessed faculty participants’ preexisting subtle bias against women using a standard instrument and found that preexisting subtle bias against women played a moderating role, such that subtle bias against women was associated with less support for the female student, but was unrelated to reactions to the male student. These results suggest that interventions addressing faculty gender bias might advance the goal of increasing the participation of women in science."(Moss-Racusin et al., 2012)
“Both the women and the men made this gender-biased judgment.” - Meg Urry
Early lessons in teaching
“I didn’t realize how hard these students were working.” - Meg Urry
The first year, I did straight lecture intro to physics, but, I realized something was missing.” - Meg Urry
Video of Eric Mazur sharing his teaching approaches
Article about Eric Mazur: Twilight of the lecture
Mazur Group
Making large classes interactive with Dr. Chrissy Spencer
"You listen to what the groups are saying and you can tell from that what their misperceptions are…" - Meg Urry
What they need to do is to explain it to someone else,
10/8/2015 • 42 minutes, 57 seconds
Grading exams with integrity
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak share about ways to reduce the potential for introducing bias while grading exams.
PODCAST NOTES
Grading exams with Integrity
In today's episode, Dave Stachowiak and I share about ways to reduce the potential for introducing bias while grading exams.
Risks of bias in grading exams
Halo effect
Exam-based halo effect
Inflating favorite students' grades
Vikram David Amar calls "expectations effect"
Exhaustion factor
Techniques to reduce potential bias
Blind grading (sticky notes, LMS-based, etc.)
Grade by question, not exam
Inner-rater reliability practices
Block time for grading during peak energy hours
Be transparent and over-communicate your practices and rationale
*** Re-grade the earlier exams, to avoid what Dave spoke about...
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Asking your students what they want to listen to before class
Coming Home, by Leon Bridges
Dave recommends:
Coaching for Leaders episode #211: How to be productive and present
Closing notes
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10/1/2015 • 28 minutes, 2 seconds
Personal knowledge management revisited
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak revisit the topic of personal knowledge management and discuss how our processes have evolved.
Podcast notes
Personal knowledge management revisited
James Lang's article in The Chronicle about Teaching in Higher Ed
Harold Jarche
PKM is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world, work more effectively, and contribute to society. PKM means taking control of your professional development, and staying connected in the network era, whether you are an employee, self-employed, or between jobs.
Seek
Twitter
Peter Newbury on episode #053
Still Feedly and Newsify
Sense
Pinboard
Newsify to Pinboard
Email to Pinboard
PushPin app
Evernote lists (list of potential podcast guests, blog topics, conferences, journals)
Getting real about Pocket
Instapaper
Share
BufferApp
Canva
Deposit photos
Copyright video
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Mid-exam stretch break
Dave recommends:
TimeTrade
Closing notes
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9/24/2015 • 28 minutes, 30 seconds
Making challenging subjects fun
Ainissa Ramirez shares about how and why to make challenging subjects fun.
Making challenging subjects fun
Guest: Dr. Ainissa Ramirez
http://www.ainissaramirez.com/bio.html
https://youtu.be/H5TNkGC4p3Q
“I learned that this thing of investigating and being curious around the world was the thing that people called science.” -Ainissa Ramirez
Early influences
The television show 321 contact
https://youtu.be/-4273oOYy7s
“By seeing my reflection in this young [African American] lady on television doing science, it gave me permission to say, ‘maybe I should be doing this.’”. -Ainissa Ramirez
Teachers as a big influence
Making learning fun
"When it comes to teaching, I try to come across as approachable." - Ainissa Ramirez
"I don't think I have the luxury to come off as extremely heady, because there's so much stuff that's going to prevent communication from [happening]." - Ainissa Ramirez
Service-oriented teaching approach
"I feel like it's my job to get you there. I can't get you there completely, but I can at least figure out where the gaps are and tell you where to head." - Ainissa Ramirez
More approaches for making learning fun
The importance of a hook
Experimentation vs memorization
Failure as data collection
"If we think of failures as data collection, they lose their sting." - Ainissa Ramirez
Materials research society
DemoWorks (a cook book for materials science experimentation with items you can buy at a local hardware store)
"It's the messy stuff where you learn." - Ainissa Ramirez
A call to get musicians involved in the call to make science fun
Adventures in giving a TED talk
Ainissa's TED talk
STEM education advocate via TED blog
"It's vulnerability that people really resonate with... If you're willing to be vulnerable, it is a position of power, because you'll connect with many more people." - Ainissa Ramirez
Great videos of Ainissa in action, getting people excited about science
Gina Barnett - Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success (helps you get out of your way)
Importance of having passion in our teaching
"Get back in touch with that thing that made you excited and then share that with other people. Be a beacon for that." - Ainissa Ramirez
Recommendations:
Bonni recommends:
Making invitations to learn (my experimentation with extending Remind this semester)...
Ainissa recommends:
Learn from Einstein - "If you can’t explain it to your Grandmother, you don't understand it."
9/17/2015 • 38 minutes, 59 seconds
Teaching lessons from Pixar
Josh Eyler, and Bonni Stachowiak talk about lessons in teaching from Pixar.
PODCAST NOTES
#065: Teaching lessons from Pixar
Guest:
Dr. Joshua Eyler, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University
Former guest on episode #016, Biology, the Brain, and Learning
Josh Eyler's Blog
Josh Eyler on Twitter
Josh’s Pixar course
The hero's journey
Loss in children’s media
WallE - environmental messages, religious messages/themes
Student-taught teaching, supported by Rice’s Center for Teaching Excellence
Heard on Twitter: Pixar favorites
Brian Croxall - Toy Story 2
https://twitter.com/briancroxall/status/641298742843441152
Shyama - Finding Nemo and The Incredibles
https://twitter.com/MedievalPhDemon/status/641254627082641408
Edna Mode
https://twitter.com/MedievalPhDemon/status/641258572383428608
Sandie Morgan
Monsters Inc.
https://twitter.com/sandiemorgan/status/641327082807672833
Cautionary note
Funny episode of Very Bad Wizards where they discuss the criticisms of the Inside Out movie, when it should have been clear to everyone that the movie wasn’t intended to actually represent how the brain works...
Opportunities to learn from our students are abundant
Finding Nemo
“If we only focus on [our role of imparting wisdom], we miss out on those moments when students can share something with us that opens our eyes to the material in a way we have never seen it before.” - Josh Eyler
Bonni shared about making assumptions on episode 63
Great teaching begins with a boundless passion for our subject
Ratatouille
Great teaching begins with a boundless passion for our subject
“Passion is sometimes an underrated part of what we do as teachers that can be really effective in reaching our students.” - Josh Eyler
Gradually reducing coaching helps students learn
Finding Nemo
David Merrill’s advice on instructional design: Instructional guidance should be gradually reduced
“In order to learn anything, we need to confront the failure of faulty knowledge, of faulty mental models. Students aren’t given enough opportunity to do that and when they are, the stakes are way too high for them.” - Josh Eyler
Mindset matters and so does proximal development
Toy Story
Mindset on episode #062 with Rebecca Campbell
James Lang on Mindset in The Chronicle
More than mindset: Josh’s writing on Vygotsky
“Understanding our intellectual development in more complex terms can help students wrap their minds around the learning process.” - Josh Eyler
The pursuit of knowledge can be heightened through curiosity
Constructivism
“Curiosity is one of our most deeply rooted mechanisms by which human beings learn.” - Josh Eyler
“It’s that curiosity - that desire to know - that we need to be cultivating in our classrooms.” Josh Eyler
The knife that solves the butter problem
Learning happens everywhere
Up
“The reality is that learning is a very big idea and it happens everywhere.” - Josh Eyler
“My wife has been very sick for the last year and I’ve learned quite a bit about courage from her. I learn so much from my three year-old daughter about how to tackle life with a toddler’s zeal.” - Josh Eyler
RECOMMENDATIONS
Bonni recommends:
Josh’s essays:
The Grief of Pain (mentioned on Vulnerability in Our Teaching)
Just Keep Swimming: A Semester of Teaching Pixar
Josh recommends:
The Pixar Theory
The Pixar Theory book
Closing notes
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9/9/2015 • 41 minutes, 41 seconds
The weekly review
Bonni Stachowiak shares how she improves her productivity through a structured, weekly review.
Podcast notes
The Weekly Review
Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. - David Allen
Having a system you trust
GTD Methodology Guides
LifeHacker's guide to the weekly review
GET CLEAR
Scannable
Inbox zero for all inboxes (physical and electronic)
Drafts app
Brain dump / sweep
GET CURRENT
Review task manager (I use OmniFocus)
Review calendar (last week, next 2 weeks)
Review Waiting
Review Project Lists
Review Checklists
GET CREATIVE
Review someday/Maybe List
Add new projects
Refine system
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Give a weekly review a try for one month... and share how it goes...
Closing notes
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9/2/2015 • 28 minutes, 32 seconds
Triumphs and failures – Day 1
Bonni Stachowiak shares about the triumphs and failures in her first day of teaching this semester.
Podcast notes
Triumphs and failures of day 1
Thanks for the encouragement on the Terrors of Teaching episode #059
Mac Power Users episode on emergency preparedness
Content warnings
Rick rolls
You are an idiot
Failures
Treyvon trip up
Race is on my mind
Stephen Brookfield - The Skillful Teacher - micro-agressions
Peter Newbury on episode #053
Forgotten supplies
Planbook
Triumphs
Mostly kept pace between three sections of the same class
Kept my stuff together - cords, etc. Grid it system worked like a champ
Experience what my teaching is like, versus me talking about it (while still explaining while we go)
Continually working on just-in-time learning/demonstrations, when possible (tapes, SnagIt)
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
[reminder] Share your own failures and triumphs [/reminder]
Closing notes
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8/27/2015 • 28 minutes, 44 seconds
Mindset
Rebecca Campbell shares about the power of mindset.
Podcast notes
Mindset
Guest: Dr. Rebecca Campbell
Recommended by Michelle Miller, from episode #026.
Associate Professor of Education and the Director and Department Chair for Academic Transition Programs at Northern Arizona University.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin
Background on mindset
Early introductions
Dissertation work on a piece: epistemological beliefs - where knowledge comes from.
"You either get it or you don't."
Growth vs fixed mindset
Isn't about teaching differently, but about framing the conversation differently. - Rebecca Campbell
Performance barriers
A better way of describing those things holding students back from academic achievement
How to help students achieve more of a growth mindset
Normalize help-seeking behavior: supplemental instruction, tutoring, writing centers, office hours, peers
Help seeking behavior is a big deal
The shift between high school and college is pretty big. - Rebecca Campbell
... students come and arrive with lots of incoming characteristics. None of these things have to be overcome, in order for them to be successful.
How they engage in learning. How they leverage help-seeking behaviors. << That's what defines student success.
These processes can be guided, coached, mentored and taught. - Rebecca Campbell
When we make the processes explicit, we make effort explicit and we are saying everyone can grow if you engage in the right processes. - Rebecca Campbell
We can guide students about the process of learning.
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
TED Talk | Brain Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
Rebecca will be using his book for the freshman reading group this year:
Just Mercy, by Brian Stevenson
Chronicle blog post about the freshmen reading groups
Rebecca recommends:
Be kind to students. Don't make assumptions. - Rebecca Campbell
More on performance barriers
Reframing the conversation
Closing notes
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8/20/2015 • 30 minutes, 1 second
All that is out of our control
Lee Skallerup Bessette joins me to talk about how to deal with and manage when stuff get's out of control in our lives, as well as how to address those situations when it happens to our students.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Lee Skallerup Bessette
Faculty Instructional Consultant at the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kentucky
Dr. Skallerup on Twitter: @readywriting
Dr. Skallerup on Inside Higher Ed
Digital humanities
... the intersection between technology and what technology can help us do in the humanities. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Big data, distance reading, social networking and network graphs
Digitization and archives
Making research, primary sources more available
Computational linguistics and mapping
Media studies
Digital pedagogy
We have unprecedented access to tools, to information, to interfaces, and the question that digital pedagogy attempts to answer is: 'So what? What do we do with them?' - Lee Skallerup Bessette
EdTech versus digital pedagogy
Often educational technology are almost commercially based, not to say that all of them are. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Assignment to define digital pedagogy in 121 characters, an assignment for the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching 2015
Storify of the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching 2015 by Lee
Lee's digital pedagogy definition "Making, bending, and breaking. #hilt2015"
#hilt2015 Digital Pedagogy - Making, Bending, Breaking https://t.co/hBI5JSGQOB
— Lee Skallerup (@readywriting) July 27, 2015
Blogs at College Ready Writing on Insidehighered.com
Doing it Wrong
On Not Swimming
Reflections from a New Faculty Developer
Losing control during a course
Decided how to make this work, but learned some lessons along the way
Too much focus on "covering" the content
Disappointing results in students' un-essay projects
[When things happen outside your control], sometimes you've got to let go of some of the coverage [of course content] in order to accomplish the learning goals. - Lee Skallerup Bassette
Finding balance
Tends to happen in stages/seasons (especially regarding the kid's ages)
Husband just got tenure and those demands also needed to be taken into consideration
Blogging was one of the things that I used to try to maintain some sort of balance. It was something I did for me and my own sanity. - Lee Skallerup Bassette
Students losing control
Worked at diverse institutions
Had students research the resources available on campus to them during times of struggle
Cultural aspects to a death in the family
I saw my role as listening, so that they felt heard, and then guiding them to a place where they could be more effectively helped. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Final advice
Sometimes it's ok to let go of some of the content. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Recommendations
Lee recommends:
Cathy Davidson's blog post - Handicapped by being underimpaired: Teaching with Equality at the Core .
Note: Cathy was a Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #028
Perhaps the worst people to teach writing are the best writers. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Bonni recommends:
Critical Digital Pedagogy Resources and Tools by Andrea Rehn
Lee inspires us for the start to the academic year:
Be hopeful. Be optimistic. And give your students the benefit of the doubt right from the start. - Lee Skallerup Bessette
Closing notes
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8/13/2015 • 34 minutes, 41 seconds
Practical instructional design
Edward Oneill joins me to talk about practical instructional design.
Podcast notes
Practical instructional design
Guest
Edward Oneill, Senior instructional designer at Yale.
Teach Better Podcast
I know a little bit about a lot of things. - Edward Oneill (and also Diana Krall, etc.)
What Edward's clients often need
intuitively-appealing ways of conceptualizing the learning process
a survey of the relevant tools & which fit their needs & capacities
Edward's special skill
...finding the points in the learning process where assessment and evaluation can be woven in seamlessly
Design approach of Edward's early courses
Successes
Made sure students had to do something every week
Ensured consistent deadlines
Weekly messages, creatively introducing them to that week
Failures
Disconnected topics, no second chances
You don't learn anything by doing it once. - Edward Oneill
Not opportunities for practice
I wanted to see it as the students' fault. It's so hard to get out of that [mindset]. - Edward Oneill
Biggest challenges in our teaching
We know our content, but we don't realize how tightly packed our knowledge is...
Edward's blog post about the Five stages of teaching
Peter Newbury - prior Teaching in Higher Ed guest on episode #053 shared about recall / connections
Rehearsal and elaboration
It's about stepping away from the center and helping [students] communicate with each other. - Edward Oneill
Methods for incorporating assessment and evaluation into the design of courses
Have shorter/smaller forms of assessment that aren't necessarily graded 100% of the time
Use their performance as your own assessment
Bonni shares about teaching with Ellen's Heads Up iPad game
Jeopardy game as form of reinforcement
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Parker Palmer quote
I am a teacher at heart, and there are moments in the classroom when I can hardly hold the joy. When my students and I discover uncharted territory to explore, when the pathway out of a thicket opens up before us, when our experience is illumined by the lightning-life of the mind—then teaching is the finest work I know. - Parker Palmer
Edward comments:
There is a special privilege in people letting you help them grow and change. - Edward Oneill
Edward recommends:
On Becoming a Person, by Carl Rogers
As a teacher, I need to see you as a unique learner. If I really try to understand you and try to help you grow, it is not so much about information transfer; it is a more humane kind of relationship. - Edward Oneill
When you're passionate about teaching and you focus on it and you try to improve - you do. - Edward Oneill
Closing notes
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8/6/2015 • 39 minutes, 17 seconds
The terror of teaching
Bonni Stachowiak shares some of her fears about teaching and ways that she often attempts to resolve them.
Podcast Notes
The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield
Common fears
Quantity over quality
Confusion
Lacking balance
Being inadequate
Attempts to resolve fears
Carve out time for deeper connections
Use checklists and leverage Remind more
Ideal week template | Outsource (virtual assistants)/insource and say no more often
Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeown
Have evidence to the contrary (letters, emails, etc.)
Recommendations
Tommy Emmanuel's Tall Fidler
Closing notes
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7/30/2015 • 20 minutes, 39 seconds
Universal design for learning
Mark Hofer shares how he implements Universal Design for Learning in his teaching, so that all students have the opportunity to learn.
Podcast notes
Guest: Mark Hofer
Twitter
Luminaris Blog
Universal design for learning
Student, Tony, who helped Mark identify the need for Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
...gives all individuals equal opportunities to learn. - National Center on Universal Design for Learning
National Center on Universal Design for Learning
UDL on Campus
Interactive version of UDL guidelines
Printable version of UDL guidelines
Universal design in architecture
If you think about [the UDL] components as you're designing your course, you're going to wind up with better learning experiences for all your students. - Mark Hofer
Addressing concerns about UDL
We inadvertently put up barriers for our students in their learning.
Mark's compare and contrast example, written about on his blog
Get started incorporating UDL into a course
Step 1:
What do I know that students struggle with related to this [topic or competency]?
Step 2:
What kind of options could I include to help them with [those common challenges]?
It does take students some time to get used to the idea that there may be more than one way to [accomplish] something. - Mark Hofer
Guidelines
Engagement - Mark is building his course around badges and experiences (through gamification and choice)
...goal is to try to make the learning as relevant and interesting to the learning, not just initially, but to sustain their interest in the learning... - Mark Hofer
Representation - pulling together readings, videos, interactives, where you can choose the way to learn
Action and expression - Mark is creating, for each project, 3 different options, all measured by the same rubric
While it is more [work] to select the various kinds of resources, it's paid back when in class the students are more prepared and we can go into further depth. -Mark Hofer
Getting started with UDL
Peter Newbury describes getting started with peer instruction on episode #053
Don't try to do [UDL] for every lesson, every day; it's a recipe for burnout. - Mark Hofer
Make sure all assignments aren't of the same type, over the course of a semester
"Pick a topic / concept that you know that students struggle with and try to find a range of different materials and see if it makes a difference." - Mark Hofer
Common misconception about UDL
While technology can help you implement UDL, it isn't dependent on using it...
UDL is an instructional approach and does not require technology
In relation to universal design
If you apply good accessibility practices to [course content], it will really benefit multiple learners in the process. - Mark Hofer
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Listen to Mac Power Users 265 on Apple Music
Mark recommends:
UDLcenter.org
UDLoncampus - specifically for higher ed
Closing notes
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7/23/2015 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
Teaching with Twitter
Jesse Stommel, shares about how he enhances his teaching with Twitter.
Podcast notes
Teaching with Twitter
Guest: Jesse Stommel
About Hybrid Pedagogy
Twitter basics
Getting started with Twitter
Jesse's blog post: Teaching with Twitter
Twitter Pedagogy: An educator down the Twitter rabbit hole, by Kelsey Schmitz
The rules of Twitter, by Dorothy Kim
Jesse's background
When I grew up, I always wanted to have my own school... [Hybrid Pedagogy] is not really as much a repository for articles, but a space for community and for engaging. - Jesse Stommel
Was recently in Canada for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, where he broke his ankle
On kindness
Kindness is what drives my pedagogy. It's about seeing people for who they really are and engaging with their full selves. - Jesse Stommel
Part of [kindness] is also about bringing your full self to the relationship you have with your coworkers, your students, and [other collaborators] that you use as a guiding ethic. - Jesse Stommel
What the 140 limitation does
The constraints of Twitter are also its affordances. Being asked to take an idea and put it in this constrained linguistic space of 140 characters forces us to think about and question our thinking in ways we wouldn't otherwise. - Jesse Stommel
Twitter allows for improvisation within a framework
What students should know
Twitter lets us play out our ideas
Twitter is a space for trying out ideas. It encourages us to iterate... - Jesse Stommel
[Twitter] is like a tool in the way that a pencil is a tool. A tool that lots of people can use for lots of different reasons. It becomes this platform that you can use in different ways and environments. - Jesse Stommel
Conversation with Steve Wheeler re: digital natives on episode 38
Literacies
Each person has to find a different relationship to these tools and build their own self inside of the network. - Jesse Stommel
Privacy literacy
Anyone who imagines that they can become private just with the flip of a switch is not really understanding how these networks work. - Jesse Stommel
Reflections on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 31 on the social network Yik Yak
Creative ways to teach with Twitter
Twitter vs Zombies
Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel share about Twitter vs Zombies with GamifiED OOC
The Twitter essay, by Jesse Stommel
12 Steps for designing an assignment, by Jesse Stommel (slide show that addresses some of the questions around how to grade these types of assignments)
Some things need to be public. - Jesse Stommel
Canvassers study in episode #555 of This American Life has been retracted
He was peer-reviewing my tweets before I sent each one out [at our wedding]... - Jesse Stommel
Today I'm live-tweeting my wedding to Joshua Lee. Because some things need to be public.
— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) June 13, 2014
I want my students to know someone in a place that is so different than the place that they are in. - Jesse Stommel
Maha Bali in Egypt on Twitter
Tweetdeck
Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Teaching with Twitter class, via Hybrid Pedagogy, taught by Jesse
Jesse recommends:
Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
Jesse on Twitter
Hybrid Pedagogy
Closing notes
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7/23/2015 • 40 minutes, 13 seconds
Getting to zero inbox
Managing email using the Inbox Zero approach.
Podcast notes
Getting to zero inbox
Be strategic about what times you check email
Use email like a real mailbox with physical mail
Leverage a to do list / task manager
Make use of snippets for commonly-asked questions (TextExpander or Breevy)
Schedule meetings with doodle or the best day
Create a hub for committees and other collaboration
Merlin Mann's video on Inbox Zero
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Tim Stringer's Learn OmniFocus calendar webinar (OmniFocus users)
7/9/2015 • 11 minutes, 1 second
Approaches to calendar management
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk calendar management.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
Dave shared about his "Wayne's World" moment, coming back as a guest on the show.
Chart on Twitter about service hours invested by gender/race:
hrs/wk assoc. profs spend on service by race/gender pic.twitter.com/vf4EA7xL6L
— Tressie Mc (@tressiemcphd) June 28, 2015
Keep the calendar’s purpose central
Exceptions to only having items calendared that have to happen at a particular time
Grading, as a means of budgeting time
See the big picture
My/our set up
Mac Calendar (BusyCal)
Exchange / Outlook
Planbook
RSS Calendar Subscriptions
Preschool
TIHE from Asana
US holidays
Make it easy for your students and other stakeholders
TimeTrade for office hours and podcasting appointments
Time blocks
Support collaboration through scheduling tools
Doodle
The Best Day
Review and reflect
Weekly review - each of us goes through a review each week to help us reflect on priorities and commitments
Look back to last week
Look forward next two weeks
Monthly review - the monthly review allows for a bigger picture view of how we are tracking toward goals
Look at next month
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Sunrise Meet
Review on FastCompany
Overview on The Chronicle
Dave recommends:
Fantastical
7/2/2015 • 28 minutes, 20 seconds
Finding meaning in our work
Jonathan Malesic on finding meaning in our work.
PODCAST NOTES
Guest: Jonathan Malesic
His blog
Jon on Twitter
What typically doesn't show up on Jon's bio: The Parking Lot Movie
I learned a lot working as a parking lot attendant. I think it's made me a better worker and a better person. - Jonathan Malesic
Don’t search for “purpose.” You will fail. by Jonathan Malesic in The New Republic.
Pursuing "purpose"
Find your purpose! pic.twitter.com/m3WKV2tWAa
— Jon Malesic (@JonMalesic) May 23, 2015
The components of finding "purpose"
You love it
The world needs it
You are paid for it
You are great at it
The intersections
1/2 = Mission (you love it and the world needs it)
2/3 = Vocation (the world needs it and you are paid for it)
3/4 = Profession (you are paid for it and you are great at it)
4/1 = Passion (you are great at it and you love it)
The often unlabeled overlaps in the Venn diagram
Please don’t be a physician (you love it; the world needs it)
Burnout (the world needs it; you can be paid for it)
Kardashian (you can be paid for it; you are good at it)
Exploitation (you are good at it; you love it)
Pursuing "success"
The best productivity tool we have as faculty is not a technology; it's our personal self-investment in our work. It's our commitment to students. It's our commitment to research. It's our commitment to our institutions. - Jonathan Malesic
We can be so committed to our work that we eventually start to hate it. We have identified ourselves so strongly with it that it becomes too much of a burden for our work. - Jonathan Malesic
Students' evaluation of us and student learning doesn't necessarily match up very well with our evaluation of ourselves. - Jonathan Malesic
That's still something worth hoping for... But, it's important to tell students that [the center piece] isn't always attainable. There's a lot of meaning to be had in our work, even if we don't hit that "sweet spot." - Jonathan Malesic
Article: Job, career, vocation, life by Charles Matthews in Inside HigherEd
Other articles suggested by Jon on this topic
In the Name of Love, by Miya Tokumitsu
A Life Beyond Do What You Love, by Gordon Marino
No Time: How Did We Get so Busy?, by Elizabeth Kolbert
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
The movie Inside Out
Jon recommends:
Series of essays published on Chronicle Vitae by Melanie Nelson
Her website also has a ton of great ideas, advice, and resources
Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
6/25/2015 • 37 minutes, 25 seconds
Peer instruction and audience response systems
Peter Newbury joins me to talk about peer instruction and using clickers in the higher ed classroom.
Early experiences with clickers
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative
Achieving the most effective, evidence-based science education
(effective science education, backed by evidence)
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) is a multi-year project at The University of British Columbia aimed at dramatically improving undergraduate science education.
The CWSEI helps departments take a four-step, scientific approach to teaching:
Establish what students should learn
Scientifically measure what students are actually learning
Adapt instructional methods and curriculum and incorporate effective use of technology and pedagogical research to achieve desired learning outcomes
Disseminate and adopt what works
The Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative resources on general teaching, clickers, and peer instruction
Today's use of clickers and other audience response systems
iClicker 2 radio clickers
Colleagues use cards: A, B, C, D… Plickers…
Bonni has a set of Turning Technologies RF clickers
Whether we are using physical devices, such as clickers, or we are using more of a bring your own device / smart phone /tablet option, it's really just a tool.
“I certainly don’t want to say that in order to use peer instruction, you have to have this piece of technology. It’s not about the clicker.” #peerinstruction
“Peer instruction is not a shiny thing that comes with clickers. Clickers are one tool you can use to facilitate peer learning.”
Peer Instruction foundations
Peer Instruction Fundamentals
How People Learn (free ebook) states that experts must:
Have a deep foundation of factual knowledge
Understand those facts and concepts in a conceptual framework
Organize the knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application
More on peer instruction basics:
“If I’m not making your brains work, then I’m not teaching hard enough.”
“We need to schedule time into the class where students can stop and think, and start to learn.”
“Just stop talking for a while and let the students start to think.”
Effective Peer Instruction Questions
Peter's post on what makes for good peer instruction questions? And what makes bad ones?
“If I can just ask Siri the answer to the question, that’s [not a good one for peer instruction].”
Removing barriers to learning, such as high stakes questions/exercises
"...not about getting the right answer, but about practicing how to think.” Homework question will have the opportunity to assess for correctness.
Experts vs novices
“The expert has the same content as the novice, but it’s organized [and more easily retrieved]…”
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Visual note taking tools site
Peter recommends:
Get yourself into a learning community. Get on Twitter.
Bonni mentioned Peter's Twitter list of Teaching / Learning Centers
6/18/2015 • 35 minutes, 34 seconds
Respect in the classroom
Kevin Gannon shares ways how to respect our students in our teaching.
Podcast notes
Guest: Kevin Gannon
Kevin shares the "behind the scenes" backdrop of the photo with the alligator (above and on his blog-about page).
Book mocking college students that Kevin mentions has been retitled, it appears.
Ignorance is Blitz: Mangled Moments of History from Actual College Students
Kevin quotes Maslow:
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
On our perceptions of students
Our students are our allies, not our adversaries in higher ed. - Kevin Gannon
Movie dance compilation video (mentioned by Bonni): Shut Up and Dance
I didn't go to grad school to be the behavior police. - Kevin Gannon
Daniel Goleman - Social Intelligence
“Dear students” blogs on The Chronicle
Jesse Strommel’s response
http://www.jessestommel.com/blog/files/dear-chronicle.html
Everyone that comes into even casual contact with Vitae’s “Dear Student” series is immediately tarnished by the same kind of anti-intellectual, uncompassionate, illogical nonsense currently threatening to take down the higher education system in the state of Wisconsin…
Giggling at the water cooler about students is one abhorrent thing.
Publishing that derisive giggling as “work” in a venue read by tens of thousands is quite another.
Of course, teachers need a safe place to vent. We all do. That safe place is not shared faculty offices, not the teacher’s lounge, not the library, not a local (public) watering hole. And it is certainly not on the pages of the Chronicle of Higher Education, especially in Vitae, the publication devoted to job seekers, including current students and future teachers. - Jesse Strommel
Kevin’s revised “Dear student” post:
Dear Student:
You’ll get better at this. So will we.
Faculty (a.k.a. former students)
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Kevin's Blog, including these posts:
On student shaming: Punching down
My cell phone policy is to have no cell phone policy
Kevin recommends:
Learner-Centered teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, Maryellen Weimer
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms, Stephen Brookfield and Stephen Preskill
(Bonni suggests/adds): Stephen Brookfield on Episode #015 of Teaching in Higher Ed
The Skillful Teacher: On technique, trust, and responsiveness in the classroom, Stephen Brookfield
6/11/2015 • 36 minutes, 6 seconds
Vulnerability in our teaching
Sandie Morgan and Bonni Stachowiak talk about how vulnerability shows up in our teaching.
A former guest on Teaching in Higher Ed, Josh Eyler, gets me thinking about vulnerability in our teaching...
Podcast notes
Guest: Sandie Morgan
Luke bringing me a broken egg yesterday.
What's this, Mommy? What was inside, Mommy?
With vulnerability comes a lot of poop.
Josh Eyler talking about how vulnerable our students need to be on episode 16
Wrote a powerful post about his wife's health challenges and his vulnerability this past semester.
And so, like Carl, we are working together to turn a new page, to imagine a new life for our family—one in which we do not ignore the reality of Kariann’s illness but at the same time do not let it define our future. This is much easier to say than it is to do. How do we begin then? We are trying to make each day as good as it can possibly be without thinking too much about the bigger picture just yet. From there, I think we just keep swimming. - Josh Eyler
Questions to consider:
How do we need to be vulnerable in our teaching?
Are there boundaries on both ends?
What kind of vulnerability do you see being required when asking for and processing feedback from students?
When deciding whether to take the risk:
Is it related to the course?
Does it help model for my students the importance of failure in shaping our learning and our lives? What does it look like to integrate my experience in a way that brings real life
Can I share it and still model resilience in our professional roles?
What do I anticipate that the students' responses to it might be?
Will it help me be more approachable to my students?
Recommendations
Evernote chat (Bonni)
Countable app (Sandie)
6/4/2015 • 29 minutes, 16 seconds
Fifty episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed
Past guests and listeners celebrate significant learning from 50 episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed. Many also share their recommendations to the listening community, too.
Episode 50
Podcast Notes
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Dr. David Yates, Director
Southeastern University Center for Excellence and Creativity in Teaching
A Department of the School of Extended Education
Cameron Hunt-McNabb on episode #24, shared how to cultivate creative assignments.
David mentioned:
Ken Bain on episode #36
Stephen Brookfield on episode #15
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Christine
The biggest and best take away for me is the knowledge that I’m not alone in my efforts to actively engage students with activities/tasks/projects/problems during class. Thank you! Also, though I’ve used Remind for several years, I didn’t know the features of the app until you told me last night on my way to teach folks how to train their dogs!
***
Scott Self, who was on episode #48
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Melissa from Columbia College
I am thoroughly enjoying your podcast episodes and have shared them with many of my colleagues already. I believe what I have taken away from the shows is your ease of describing the technology and pedagogical challenges, the show format with the notes and the wide variety of topics that are so pertinent to me and many of my colleagues.
I am just so thirsty for knowledge and application to help revitalize our faculty at the college and get them more excited about technology in education.
We are also very involved with the CA Online Education Initiative, piloting online tutoring at this time so this is also very timely to have come across your podcast series. You have a very unique, gentle and fun-loving attitude toward technology topics and with your guests.
I am in the process of developing a new course, Universal Design in Online Course Development, and was wondering if you would be, or have already covered universal design in one of your podcasts. I would also be interested in hearing more about instructional design. Although you may have already covered some of these topics, I will eventually hear them all.
***
Missy McCormick
Lab ideas?
Gradebook strategies, including in-progress grading… Final grades.
Critiquing student work.
Missy mentioned:
Recalibrating our teaching with Aaron Daniel Annas (#45)
***
Recommendation
Amanda Bayer’s website: Diversifying Economic Quality: A wiki for instructors and departments
Recommended by Doug McKee on his blog post
5/28/2015 • 20 minutes, 29 seconds
EdTech tools | Spring 2015
Bonni Stachowiak provides an update on some of the edtech tools she experimented with in Spring 2015.
Podcast Notes
Slack
Team communication for the 21st century. Imagine all your team communication in one pace, instantly searchable, available wherever you go.
Create channels, which include messages, files, and comments, inline images and video, rich line summaries, and integration with services you use every day, like Twitter, Dropbox and Google drive.
How did we use it?
Has default channels: #general, #random… added ones for #movienights at our house (address, carpooling, etc.), and for each of the research/service learning projects. Can do private ones that no one else sees, which we did for the business ethics competition, so competitors wouldn’t be able to see the cases we were considering, etc.
Students’ feedback
Really liked it. Searchability. Ease of use.
What they didn’t like was just the number of places they have to remember to check, assuming they weren’t on the web app.
Empathy for our students
A veteran teacher turned coach shadows 2 students for 2 days – a sobering lesson learned
Piazza
Recommended by Doug on episode #035
Watch a video that shows the power of Piazza
Primarily will want to have students use their .edu address to sign up for Piazza
There are also integration options for LMSs, etc.
TextExpander snippet for students who ask a question directly to me, instead of on Piazza
OmniFocus
https://pinboard.in/u:bonni208/t:omnifocus
http://learnomnifocus.com/videos/
Project templates
Tim Stringer at Learn Omnifocus.com (http://learnomnifocus.com/about-tim-stringer/)
Recommendations
1 password
https://agilebits.com/onepassword
5/21/2015 • 28 minutes, 23 seconds
Using Evernote in Higher Ed
Scott Self and Bonni Stachowiak share how they each integrate Evernote into their classes and workflows. Even if you aren't an Evernote user, you're bound to pick up a few tips.
Podcast notes
Guest:
Scott Self
Director, University Access Programs, Abilene Christian University
Productive Nerd Blog
The landscape of options for notebook-type applications
Microsoft OneNote
Writing-specific applications, such as Ulysses or Scrivener
Circus Ponies Notebook
Guidance on maximizing the value of course assets
Linking smart post
LMS - keep the course assets out of it
Creating collaborative learning environments with Evernote
Use it in a uni-directional way, not necessarily a conversational tool...
Classroom becomes a kind of conversation around learning
Scott gives students the unique, Evernote email address to send notes to the class-specific evernote notebook
He sets permissions up so that he’s the only one who can edit the notes in the notebook - read-only
Getting started with Evernote
Scott’s posts
Evernote in Higher Ed Introduction
Evernote in the classroom
We both recommend
Brett Kelly's Evernote Essentials eBook
Big advantages of Evernote
Easy capture
On iOS - text, audio, sticky notes, documents (auto-size), photo
Web clipper
Drafts - iOS app - start typing
Email - lots of tricks to organize when you send
Search capabilities
Integration with other apps and services
Keeps one’s course out of the LMS environment - the instructor should own the material, not the LMS
Our advice
Grow with it (start with the basics and go from there)
Keep folder structure simple
Bonni uses just reference, work, and personal, along with a shared notebook and a couple required ones that store my LiveScribe pencasts
Scott has only a few notebooks. I do have one for each section of a course that I teach so that I can share lecture notes, resources, and “FYIs” with my students.
As a “Premium” user, we have access to the “Presenter” view. Scott says:
Students see my lecture notes in a clear and uncluttered presentation, and have access to the information in the shared notes. I prefer that students take notes about the lecture - rather than copying down what’s on the screen.
Use tags when you would have normally used a folder. Scott says:
Yes! The search function is so powerful, it is often faster to search for a note than to navigate through a tree of folders
Capture whiteboard brainstorms in meetings (will recognize your handwritten text). Scott says:
My students with disabilities have become infamous on campus for snapping pictures of whiteboards. This saves time (and frustration for the students with learning disabilities), and the snaps can be annotated.
Use the inbox for quick capturing and have an action in your task management system to process it however regularly you need to… Scott says:
This can be done very quickly, since you can select a number of notes and bulk process them (tagging, merging, or sending to a notebook)
When you get really geeky with Evernote
Automate agendas in Evernote
Use Drafts app to prepend / append notes on a given topic (our kids’ “firsts” notes, research ideas)
Use TaskClone to capture and sync to dos with your task manager
Katie Floyd’s Article on Evernote and Hazel
Save Kindle highlights into Evernote
Recommendations
Scott recommends
Taskclone
Chungwasoft
Scannable
Bonni recommends
The Checklist Manifesto
Closing credits
Celebrate episode 50 with us!
Please call 949-38-LEARN and leave a message with a take-away you've had from listening to Teaching in Higher Ed, and a recommendation.
5/14/2015 • 39 minutes, 40 seconds
Developing metacognition skills in our students
Todd Zakrajsek speaks about developing metacognition skills in our students.
Podcast notes
Todd Zakrajsek, Ph.D.
Todd speaks at TEDxUNC
Metacognition
Todd's two unusually low grades in college
Our brain as a smart phone
Working out our brains
Multitasking
Music, sleep, and exercise
Defining terms
Tools
Asleep app on iOS
Android white noise app
Logitech wireless presenter
Help students draw less cognitive energy on exams by giving them a preview of what it will be like to take a test in your class
Anytime you're surprised, stop and think about why you were surprised and what just happened.
Next steps
Attend one of the Lilly Conferences
Read one of Todd's books
The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain
Learner-centered Teaching: Putting the Research on Learning into Practice
Todd agrees to come back to Teaching in Higher Ed later this year to share about his new book: Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Education Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Dropbox's new commenting feature
Todd recommends:
f.lux
Forest app
5/7/2015 • 39 minutes, 53 seconds
Ending well
Bonni Stachowiak suggests strategies for ending well.
Podcast notes
Ending well
Guard against student fatigue
Sleep deprived
Focused on the short term
Challenged by their context
Thinking a lot about context, especially after speaking with Steve Wheeler on episode #038)
Beware the temptation to vent
Josh Eyler reminded us of this on episode #016
Research shows it doesn’t help
There was that research that said cursing helps, though
Recognize their achievements
Demonstrate how the learning objectives have been attained
Have them articulate the value they have received
Administer the course evaluations professionally
All sorts of concerns over evaluations
Students don’t realize the gaps that occur in the evaluation process in higher ed
We wonder if they are in a position to properly evaluate our teaching (recent thread on the POD listserv re: what even to call course evaluations; student experience of teaching (Debra Gilchrist from Pierce College in Lakewood WA, Ed Nuhfer wrote about the importance of separating assessment (various ways to assess student learning) from evaluations of people who strive to facilitate learning.
Take more breaks
Apple Watch - standing alert
Penn state experimenting w/ Apple Watch to measure student learning this Fall
Frasier Spiers on presenting with an Apple Watch
Set timers
Natalie Houston spoke about this on episode #034
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
We all love Ella: Celebrating the first lady of song
In particular: You are the sunshine of my life: duet with Stevie Wonder…
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4/30/2015 • 21 minutes, 24 seconds
Calibrating our teaching
Aaron Daniel Annas and I converse about how we have calibrated our teaching over time.
Podcast Notes
Calibrating our Teaching
Aaron Daniel Annas
Assistant professor of cinema arts
Faculty Director of the Vanguard Sundance Program
Reflections on year one
Bonni reflects on her first year
Taking things personally (a good lesson on how to avoid this is to hear Cheating Lessons author, James Lang, on episode #043)
Aaron Daniel reflects on his first few semesters
You're not giving someone a grade; they're earning a grade.
Calibrating your teaching
Importance of setting expectations
Stressing the whys as you raise the level of challenge
Realize they aren't likely to thank you during the process of being challenged
Bonni's post: The Dip
Atherton J.S.'s post: Course of a course
Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeown
Determining what hours to have direct contact with students should be allowed
TextExpander (Mac) | Breevy (Windows)
Recommendations
Aaron Daniel recommends
Kindle First, for Amazon prime members
Kindle first newsletter for amazon prime members. One free book from their editor pics each month
Get in touch with Aaron Daniel on Twitter
Closing credits
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4/23/2015 • 35 minutes, 16 seconds
How to care for grieving students
Bonni Stachowiak explores how to care for grieving students.
PODCAST NOTES
How to care for grieving students
Respect confidentiality… to a point
Point them toward their resources
Avoid assumptions… if you can
Be human
Don’t lower course requirements; let them earn their degree, not receive it through pity
Recognize the pain of the neutral zone (coined by Bridges in his book: Transitions: Making sense of life's changes)
Avoid personalizing dishonesty
RECOMMENDATIONS
Process your own grief
One wonderful book for processing one's grief and going through transitions is William Bridges' The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments.
We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed. - William Bridges
4/16/2015 • 15 minutes, 59 seconds
Storytelling as teaching
Aaron Daniel Annas joins me to talk storytelling on this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
Podcast Notes
Aaron Daniel Annas
Assistant professor of cinema arts
Faculty Director of the Vanguard Sundance Program
Storytelling
Who are stories for?
How do you distinguish between entertaining our students and educating them?
What makes for a good story?
What do we do if we aren't good at telling stories?
How do we know if we are good at telling stories?
Importance of the relevance to a course
Bringing in story in to a class without us necessarily having to be the storyteller
Bonni's storytelling bookmarks on Pinboard
Recommendations
Bonni recommends:
Biola math professor Matthew Weathers' video of April Fool’s joke
Aaron Daniel recommends:
Amazon Echo
4/9/2015 • 35 minutes, 53 seconds
Mixing it up in our teaching
Bonni Stachowiak shares some ideas about mixing it up in our teaching.
Podcast notes
Teaching classes repeatedly
Advantage of knowing where students typically get stuck
Dr. Chrissy Spencer spoke about this when describing her broken-up cases in episode 25, when she just “happens” to have a slide that clarifies a student’s question
Reinforcing a difficult concept
Advertising response function in my Principles of Marketing class
Not all understand the idea of the law of diminishing returns by the time they get to the course
Would be the ideal situation for an interactive online module something like the scenario manager in Excel (under data, what-if, scenario manager)
Did the typical think-pair-share
Two truths and a tie exercise
Using the Attendance2 app to facilitate the random calling on of students
Applying learning to something students know well
Lessons in PR from our university
Standard 2.2 from accreditor (whole must be greater than the parts)
Going outside
Self assessment on theory X and theory Y
What things do you see that I do that are theory X
Steps to avoid cheating on exams
Latecomers need to call to be marked present for the day
What things do you see that I do that are theory Y
Self-directed learning during the week
Bulls and bears game
PollEverywhere quizzes via cell phones in class
No anonymity any longer
However, I was then able to give them the opportunity to indicate how they would like to be treated as an employee
Recommendation
Remind app - now has text chat, but with office hours
4/2/2015 • 27 minutes, 40 seconds
What to do before you act on all you've captured
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak discuss what to do before you act on all you’ve captured.
PODCAST NOTES:
Episode #32 talked about capture. All the places where we capture what it is we need to do (either because of others’ demands, or freeing up our mind of the “clutter” of stuff that needs doing).
Clarify and organize
Before we do any of it… we need to:
Clarify - process what it means
Organize - put it where it belongs
For each item we have captured, we ask:
What action needs to take place?
Follow this GTD guide
If it isn’t actionable, are you going to need it in the future for reference?
Avoid becoming a digital hoarder
How I store files related to class content and specific classes
Don’t get carried away with folders, especially email, because as we read more on our mobile devices, pretty long to scroll through.
Dropbox debuts file commenting; rolls out "badge" for collaborating on Microsoft documents
Evernote/OneNote: another place not to get carried away with folders. Work, personal, reference + any shared notebooks (i.e. bondbox)
Actionable tasks
Put it into a trusted system, so you can consider it in relation to all your other priorities.
goodreads
IMDB
Dave's Coaching for Leaders episode #180: Do this for a productive week
Only set due dates for things that actually have due dates
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Bonni recommends:
Read/re-read the revised Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Buy a set of their guides
Check out Scannable app
Dave recommends:
Ulysses app
3/26/2015 • 39 minutes, 14 seconds
What to do before you act on all you’ve captured
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak discuss what to do before you act on all you’ve captured.
PODCAST NOTES:
Episode #32 talked about capture. All the places where we capture what it is we need to do (either because of others’ demands, or freeing up our mind of the “clutter” of stuff that needs doing).
Clarify and organize
Before we do any of it… we need to:
Clarify - process what it means
Organize - put it where it belongs
For each item we have captured, we ask:
What action needs to take place?
Follow this GTD guide
If it isn’t actionable, are you going to need it in the future for reference?
Avoid becoming a digital hoarder
How I store files related to class content and specific classes
Don’t get carried away with folders, especially email, because as we read more on our mobile devices, pretty long to scroll through.
Dropbox debuts file commenting; rolls out "badge" for collaborating on Microsoft documents
Evernote/OneNote: another place not to get carried away with folders. Work, personal, reference + any shared notebooks (i.e. bondbox)
Actionable tasks
Put it into a trusted system, so you can consider it in relation to all your other priorities.
goodreads
IMDB
Dave's Coaching for Leaders episode #180: Do this for a productive week
Only set due dates for things that actually have due dates
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Bonni recommends:
Read/re-read the revised Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Buy a set of their guides
Check out Scannable app
Dave recommends:
Ulysses app
3/26/2015 • 39 minutes, 14 seconds
How to take a break
Five faculty members share how they are spending their breaks and what recommendations they have for how to take a break...
Podcast notes
Ten things to do instead of checking email, by Natalie Houston (guest on episode #034)
How to take a break
David Pecoraro from the Student Caring podcast
Heading to Fresno for son's swim meet
Reading: Building social business, by Mohammed Yunus
Christine - teaches part time. Fighting with insurance companies over the break. Dealing with snow days.
Nicholas - teaches in Doha, Qatar (pronunciation of Likert scale)
"My spring break is already over, but I spent it learning how to use ScreenFlow so I can help my MA students learn to use Zotero better."
Doug McKee from the Teach Better podcast
Two week break from teaching at Yale
Microsoft Word in review mode
PDF expert 5 on the iPad
Screencasting with Quicktime on the Mac (record screen and do light editing)
Sandie Morgan from the Ending Human Trafficking podcast
Engaging with others in diverse communities to combat human trafficking
Expand circles of influence
Connect app
Recommendations
BusyContacts
David Allen on the Coaching in Higher Ed podcast
Closing credits
Please consider rating or reviewing the podcast via your preferred podcast directory. It is the best way to help others discover the show (gotta love algorithms).
https://teachinginhighered.com/itunes
https://teachinginhighered.com/stitcher
3/19/2015 • 19 minutes, 3 seconds
Spring break recharge
Bonni Stachowiak shares about a few things she's doing over Spring break to recharge. Spoiler alert: It is mostly all about getting caught up and staying caught up for me.
Podcast notes
Differing perspectives on Spring break
a) give assignments for students to work on over the break
b) grade student work
c) recharge/refresh for the rest of the semester
Efficiency
Sign ups
Doodle
The Best Day
Time Trade
Google forms
Grading
Mac Power Users episode 240
TurnItIn iPad app
Answering student questions
Forum set up just for Q&A (invite students to post questions there)
Screenshots (SnagIt)
Screencast (Tapes app - beware the 60 minute monthly limit, SnagIt, Screenflow or Camtasia)
What about you?
Recharge, refresh for Spring break?
Leave a message at: 949-38-learn.
Recommendations
Recharge - Kindle Voyage
Closing credits
Please call 949-38-LEARN to record a message about your Spring break recommendations and / or ideas beyond what I spoke about on this episode.
3/12/2015 • 16 minutes, 56 seconds
Steve Wheeler talks Learning with ‘e’s
Steve Wheeler joins me to share about Learning with ‘e’s...
PODCAST NOTES
Steve Wheeler
Bio
Learning with 'e's
Origins of Learning with 'e's
2007 started blogging
Learning using digital technologies…
Incorporates comments from people into the book
eLearning 3.0
If Web 1.0 was the 'Write Web' and Web 2.0 is the 'Read/Write Web', then Web 3.0 will be the 'Read/Write/Collaborate Web'.
Coined by Tim Reilly of O'Reilly media - progression or evolution of the web
Web 1.0 - the sticky web
Web 2.0 - the participatory web
Web 3.0 - the read/write/collaborative web
Digital natives/immigrants vs residents/visitors
Mark Frensky - coined the phrases digital natives and digital immigrants in 2000 / 2001 - The Horizon
Digital natives
Digital immigrants
Net Generation
It's not about age; it's about context. -Steve Wheeler
Residents and visitors - coined by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu
Challenging to find a universal digital literacy tool
Every individual’s context is unique. -Steve Wheeler
I know what I need to do with the tools that are available to me and so do my students. -Steve Wheeler
We learn best when we are curious. We become curious when we don't know the answer to something. And we don't know the answer to something when we get challenged. Problem based learning is probably the most powerful method you could possibly use. -Steve Wheeler
Twitter
Initially got interested in the backchannel chatter happening at a conference.
@stevewheeler account - started with that, though his more popular account to follow is…
@timbuckteeth - avatar - Dave, the astronaut on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
Twitter for me is probably for me the most powerful tool for communicating I've ever used. -Steve Wheeler
Lack persistence - You need to give it time.
[Twitter] is not about the content; it’s about the conversation. -Steve Wheeler
The practice of blogging
If [professors don't blog], how else are they going to express themselves? -Steve Wheeler
Professors normally express themselves through closed, academic journals. The academic capital that most universities currently subscribe to... That's going to change.
Why Steve knows that blogging is much more effective:
Wrote an article in 2005: wasn’t published for nearly three years; revised. 36 academic citations.
At the same time, wrote another article, sent it in to an open-access journal; five people instead of two… Not only did they publish it within six weeks. The way forward for disseminating… 550k views; Almost 1,000 citations.
Blogging. People are actually reading it. Could be much harsher in their criticism. Reflect on practice more deeply. 3,000 views in a day. Don’t know how he could possibly get that kind of exposure through traditional academic journals.
US
Jim Groom (edupunk) (on Twitter)
George Siemens (on Twitter)
Steven Anderson's blog - web 2.0 classroom (on Twitter)
Sherry Terrell (on Twitter).
Amy Burvall Hawaii History Teachers channel
Audrey Watters
Alan Levine (on Twitter)
UK
Martin Weller (on Twitter)
David Hopkins' blog Don’t waste your time (on Twitter)
Helen Keegan (on Twitter)
Privacy
Audrey Watters on Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Death of privacy - all surveilled; all followed; difficult to be a private citizen
The death of privacy has happened. It's very difficult to be a private citizen these days. -Steve Wheeler
The law is running to catch up
Difficult question to answer
School systems differ; social contexts differ; social norms differ
Steve's addition
How the maker movement is moving into classrooms
Taupaki School in Aukland - principal of the school, Stephen Lethbridge (on Twitter)- primary plus school. 5-13… through making things. Papert's Constructionist theories. Learning the curriculum subjects in a fun, challenging, exciting way.
Makey Makey
Arduino
Rasberry Pi
Recommendations
3/5/2015 • 36 minutes, 53 seconds
Developing critical thinking skills
Tine Reimers helps us define the term critical thinking and truly start developing our students' skills.
PODCAST NOTES
[GUEST ]
Tine Reimers
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Specialist
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning
Vancouver Island University
Critical Thinking
Defining critical thinking (and the inherent challenges when we want to improve critical thinking in our students, without actually agreeing, collectively, on what we mean)
Different disciplines define critical thinking differently than each other
Difficulty in the concrete way in how to get students to think critically in the discipline-specific way that I'm trying to develop...
HANDOUT: Taxonomy of [some] critical thinking theories
* Developmental
- what gets emphasized?
- a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Learning styles / bio-neurological models of thought
Article from Wired: All you need to know about learning styles...
- what gets emphasized?
- a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Categories of cognitive skills
- what gets emphasized?
- a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
* Processes of self (in culture and society)
- what gets emphasized?
- a few of the thinkers/researchers who posit this theory
Episode with stephenbrookfield/15
Suggestions to grow critical thinking
Invert the classroom intellectually
Give the students practice in situations of ambiguity and complexity
[Correction: I said I was listening to the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, but I meant that I was listening to the Inside Higher Ed podcast on competency-based programs]
Each team gets a significant problem to work on
Give the same problem to all the groups in the class
Limited set of choices as right answers
Which is the best answer to this problem
Simultaneous report in the classroom
Clickers or cards in class
Why did you say D?
Next steps
Flip the classroom - all of class period is around problem solving and sticking to your guns
Rabbit holes are a way of thinking... and we don't give our students enough chances to do that type of thinking in foundational classes.
ARTICLE: First day questions for learner-centered classrooms, by Gary Smith, University of New Mexico
Michelson and Fink’s team based learning approach
Michelson’s Team Based Learning - team task design - good for any discipline that you can do…
Chrissy Spencer talking on Teaching in Higher Ed about teaching large classes
Team based learning list serve
Team based learning site
RECOMMENDATIONS
From Tine:
On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
Reality is Broken, Jane McGonnigal
2/26/2015 • 37 minutes, 53 seconds
What the best college teachers do
Ken Bain describes What the Best College Teachers Do...
PODCAST NOTES
Guest: Ken Bain
President, Best Teachers Institute, Ken Bain (Twitter: @kenbain1)
"Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning and for a fifteen-year study of what the best educators do"
"His now classic book What the Best College Teachers Do. (Harvard University Press, 2004) won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society, and has been one of the top selling books on higher education. It has been translated into twelve languages and was the subject of an award-winning television documentary series in 2007."
He was the founding director of four major teaching and learning centers.
WHAT THE BEST COLLEGE TEACHERS DO
Many will be familiar with What the Best College Teachers Do… If not, press stop, and get your hands on it.
What’s still the same, in the >10 years since the book was published?
"Ask engaging questions that spark people’s curiosity and fascination that people find intriguing…"
What’s changed, if anything?
More definition around the natural critical learning environment
Started with 4-5 basic elements
Since then, they have identified 15 different elements...
Deep approach to learning; deep achievement in learning
[Good teaching] is about having students answer questions or solving problems that they find intriguing, interesting, or beautiful. (Ken Bain)
Learner isn’t in charge of the questions. Teacher can raise questions that the learner will never invent on their own.
Need to give learners the same kind of learning condition and environment that we expect as advanced learners.
[As an advanced learner, asking for input from colleagues]... I would expect an environment in which I would try, fail, receive feedback… and do that in advance of and separate from anybody's judgment or anyone's grading of my work. (Ken Bain)
Bonni's introduction to business students are listening to the StartUp Podcast and making recommendations to the founders in the form of a business plan
The tone that you set in the classroom matters
We often teach as if we are God. (Craig Nelson)
Need to recognize the contingency in our own knowledge.
As advanced learners in our respective fields, we are interested in certain questions, because we were once interested in another question. (Ken Bain)
Another important study by Richard Light at Harvard asked: What are the qualities of those courses at Harvard that students find most intellectually rewarding?
When he published his initial results:
High, but meaningful standards… important to the students beyond the scope of the class.
Plenty of opportunity to try, fail, receive feedback… try again… all in advance of an separate from any grading of their work
As a historian, could begin with: “What do you think it means to think like a good historian.” Think, pair, square, share… Would then have an article on hand that someone else had written on the topic. Ask them to look at that article to compare their own thinking with that.
Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge, by Kenneth Bruffee
What people are doing when they learn something is joining a community of knowledgeable peers. (Kenneth Bruffee)
Essential to this whole process is engagement
Harvard Professor: Eric Mazure, winner of the $500k Minerva Prize
Peer instruction
RECOMMENDATIONS
Think, pair, share (Bonni)
The girl who saved the king of Sweeden, by Jonas Jonason (Ken)
@kenbain1
bestteachersinstitute.org
kenbain [at] usa [dot] com
2/19/2015 • 38 minutes, 2 seconds
Eliciting and using feedback from students
Doug McKee talks about eliciting and using feedback from students.
PODCAST NOTES
Guest: Dr. Doug McKee
[ CV ]
[ BLOG ]
WORKING OUT LOUD
John Stepper's book about Working Out Loud
Studied his own teaching and determined that those who came to class and those who watched via video did equally well in the class
I feel like I’m just breaking through now. I remember what it was like at the beginning.
ELICITING FEEDBACK
Waiting until the end of the semester to get input from our students is too late
Evaluations are valuable; but it only helps you the next time you teach the class
The Hawthorne Effect
Formal, anonymous surveys
* Customized end of semester surveys
* mid-semester surveys
* discussion boards
https://piazza.com
* in person:
* talking to students after class
* office hours
* regular lunches with students
* Reporting back about what you learned what your changing to respond
http://ictevangelist.com
* Department-wide early warning systems—We’re trying this this year to give students in all our classes a chance to air concerns to the department early enough so we can do something about them.
RECOMMENDATIONS
SpeedDial2; ultimate tab page for Google Chrome (Bonni)
Piazza (Doug)
Forgetmenot (Doug)
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson (Doug)
Doug's blog:
teachbetter.co
2/12/2015 • 39 minutes, 1 second
Practical productivity in academia
Natalie Houston discusses practical productivity in academia.
Podcast Notes
Guest: Dr. Natalie Houston
Twitter
Blog
ProfHacker posts
Opposition to the term productivity
Productivity defined
Productivity, to me, is not about doing more things faster. It is about doing the things that are most important to me and creating the kind of life I want to have...
To do something with ease is to bring a kind of comfort and grace to the task. It can also be more room [in your life]... Living a life with more ease...
Challenges and approaches for faculty
Blurring between work and non-work time
Protect quality time for your most important work/projects
Creating appropriate boundaries
Schedule blocks of time to let
Commit to avoiding digital devices before bed
Establish a bedtime for ourselves
Articulate an ideal weekend/Saturday
Enlist partner's support in fulfilling that ideal day
The idea of a sabbath day in many spiritual traditions is to set aside a day for rest.
Create transition rituals to help acknowledge the move between work and personal time
Don't force yourself to use digital tools, if analog work better; perhaps a hybrid system might work well, in some cases
Todoist
Email
Multiple touch points
Challenge with accessing email on our phones
Taking breaks
Set an alarm
A timer is my most important productivity tool. You can use a timer in so many parts of your day.
Timing a break enhances the relaxation of that break.
Recommendations
How to manage references with Zotero, by Catherine Pope (Bonni)
IDoneThis.com (Natalie)
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance, by Stephen Kotler
2/5/2015 • 38 minutes, 13 seconds
The slide heard ’round the world
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about how to make your PowerPoint (or other) slides more effective.
Podcast notes
2010 headlines:
"US Army makes the world's worst PowerPoint slide"
"We have met the enemy and he is PowerPoint."
Conflict in Afghanistan: Why developing a clear strategy was challenging.
PPT in the crosshairs
Edward Tufte (2006 publication) The cognitive style of ppt: There's no bullet list like Stalin's bullet list.
Can create bad PPT on tools besides PPT
Problems in higher ed
In the classroom
In online modules (flipped classroom)
At academic conferences
In the online magazine, Slate, Schuman expressed her views on just how bad it has become with PowerPoint use in education in an article called PowerPointless. She writes, “Digital slideshows are the scourge of education.”
“For class today I’ll be reading the PowerPoint word for word.” –every professor, everywhere. @collegegrlhumor
“College basically consist of you spending thousands of dollars for a professor to point at a PowerPoint and read the bullets.” @deliNeli
“Being a college professor would be easy. Read off a PowerPoint you made 10 years ago and give online quizzes with questions you googled.” –blazik
“srsly sick of all these power points. anyone can be a professor. all u need to know is how to run a power point.” @ChrisraMae17
“Y’all ever sat in a class, copied every word down of the power point, and still not kno a damn thing the professor said?” @BlkSuperMan
Richard Mayer's research shows if students w/out visuals 75% vs 89% re: bike pump
PowerPoint Slide Recommendations
Use PowerPoint slides for their intended purpose: to enhance your presentation, not deliver it.
Put less on your slides and use relevant visuals
Change your media focus at regular intervals
B key
Caffeine (for the Mac)
Caffeine alternatives (for PC/Windows)
Employ a non-linear slide structure
Choose your own adventure (episode 25 re: large classes w/ Chrissy Spencer)
Today's meet (requires laptops/smart devices)
Recommendations
Slack (Bonni)
Tapes | Screenflow | SnagIt (Dave)
1/29/2015 • 34 minutes, 24 seconds
Lower your stress with a better approach to capture
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about how to capture it all, so we can have lower stress and not have things fall through the cracks.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Dave Stachowiak
What is capture?
David Allen's Getting Things Done
Why capture?
Other-generated capture
Inboxes
Have as many as necessary and no more
Academics inboxes
Email
Phone- office line
Phone-other
Inbox office
Inbox home
Inbox bag
Students after class
Tools
Drafts
Evernote
Soundever
Scannable
Zero inbox
David Allen's folders
Self generated capture
Roles
Projects
Tools
David Allen's templates
OmniFocus
RTM
Post its plus
Mindnode
Recommendations
Paprika recipe manager app (Bonni)
Amazon Fresh (Dave)
1/22/2015 • 33 minutes, 55 seconds
All that cannot be seen
On today’s episode, I talk about all that cannot be seen.
Photo by Jim Frazee of Southwest Search Dogs. Used with permission (he's my Dad).
Podcast notes
Mystery commercial that I really hope someone can find and send to me
Augmented reality
How Stuff Works explains augmented reality
Mashable's augmented reality stories
Yik yak chat service (For reasons explained in the podcast, I would rather not link to this particular app/service)
[EDIT: 1/15/15/ at 10:20 am]: Right after recording this episode, I listened to episode 9 the Reply All podcast by Gimlet Media. I have even less certainty now about whether or not we should stay far away from Yik Yak, or get in there and spread some positivity and make our presence known. I welcome your thoughts either privately, or in the comments, below.
Southwest Search Dogs
Online forum introductions
Our perceptions really do matter
Our expectations can shape outcomes in others…
This American Life previewed Invisiblia on an episode called: Batman
Especially the beginning re mindset on This American Life
NPR Science reporters Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller explain to Ira Glass how they smuggled a rat into NPR headquarters in Washington, and ran an unscientific version of a famous experiment first done by Psychology Professor Robert Rosenthal. It showed how people’s thoughts about rats could affect their behavior. Another scientist, Carol Dweck, explains that it’s true for people too: expectations affect students, children, soldiers, in measurable ways. (6 minutes)
Invisibilia
Invisibilia is a series about the invisible forces that shape human behavior. The show interweaves personal stories with scientific research that will make you see your own life differently.
Assume the best… and talk through the gaps…
Episode 14 on Dealing with Difficult Students in Higher Ed
Our diverse students
Recommendation
Coach.me
1/15/2015 • 0
Teaching Naked
It is easy to want to cover up in some way as professors…
In today’s episode, President Jose Antonio Bowen encourages us to become good at “Teaching Naked."
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Jose Antonio Bowen, President, Goucher College
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Recommendations (part 1)
This episode, we start with Bonni's recommendation and ask Dr. Bowen questions from Storycorps.
Storycorps
About Storycorps
Storycorps's Great questions
Danny and Annie's animated story
Ask your colleagues the questions related to working from Storycorps
Teaching Naked
The thing that teachers do best in the classroom is to be human beings, and to get to know their students as human beings, and to make that connection between what matters to their students and what matters to them. (Jose Bowen)
Start with what matters to your students
Used to have the advantage, based on knowledge
Use class time to make genuine connections and not simply for providing information
Technology works great outside the classroom for quizzing, communication, etc.
We know more about teaching than we did when we were in school
Pedagogy needs to be our central focus, and most of us weren't trained in it
A teaching failure
Bonni admits to one of her bigger failures in teaching in the past few years
Driving the stick shift car and not always having it turn out the way we want it to
Overcoming the failures - Jose gives advice
We are opaque as to our own intellectual accent. Everybody has an accent in the way they speak, but they also have an accent in the way they think.
Academics, in particular, are bad examples of learning, because we learned in spite of the system. We're the odd balls. We're the weirdos. We're the people who liked school so much that we're still here.
Most students don't learn that way.
Failure is simply part of the game. Disconnect is just part of what happens. (Dr. Jose Bowen)
Embrace mistakes
Admit when things go wrong
Describe why you tried what you did
Model change ("I changed my mind.")
The end of the story
The Naked Classroom
Furniture moves around; no rows
No technology / screen
Index cards
Noisy
Laptops aren't typically necessary
Nobody uses a laptop while doing yoga or playing tennis (Jose Bowen)
I believe in noisy and messy classrooms. Complexity. Lots of failures. People having to confront real problems. Confront each other. Confront me... (Jose Bowen)
For beginners... need to set the stage and expectations... after that, they know how the game works.
Twitter
Jose on Twitter
Bonni on Twitter
Michael Hyatt's beginners' guide to Twitter
Bonni's resources to help you learn Twitter
Recommendations (part 2)
Jose closes the podcast episode with his recommendations.
Merlot II: Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching
SmashFact: Create custom study apps for your students' devices
Change is hard. It's hard for you and it's hard for your students... Keep asking your students what's working. Expect some failure. It's not a linear process.
That's the process of learning and we're all learning how to do something new: And that's how to be better, more engaged teachers. (Jose Bowen)
Closing credits
Subscribe to the weekly update and receive the Educational Technology Essentials Guide
Give feedback on the podcast or ideas for future topics/guests
1/8/2015 • 0
Specifications Grading
There’s something wrong with the way we’re grading that isn’t being talked about nearly enough.
On today’s show, Dr. Linda Nilson shares about a whole new way of thinking about assessing students’ work and making grades mean more.
Podcast Notes
Dr. Linda B. Nilson
Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University
Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course
Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness and Learning Skills
Specifications Grading: Restoring rigor, motivating students, and saving faculty time
Specifications grading
Advocating a new way of grading from University of Pittsburgh University Times
The problem with “traditional” grading
Academic and Occupational Performance: A Quantitative Synthesis (Samson, Graue, Weinstein & Walberg)
.155 correlation meta analysis done by Sampson
2.4% of the variance in career success
2006 study by the American Institutes for Research
Fewer than 1/2 of four year college graduates
Fewer than 3/4 of two year college graduates
Demonstrate literary proficiency
Explanation of specifications grading
Bundles
Virtual tokens
Robert Talbert blog
Casting out nines
How specifications grading came to be
Benefits
Concerns
Recommendations
Bonni: PollEverywhere (new features)
Linda: Cultivate your courage by trying out things you’re afraid of...
1/1/2015 • 0
How to see what we’ve been missing
Fears and concerns over changes in higher education persist.
Whether it is our disdain for lecturing to a bunch of disconnected, texting and Facebooking students, or their boredom at being put to sleep by a droning professor reading from his powerpoint, something’s got to give…
In today’s episode, Dr. Cathy Davidson joins us to talk about finding the right practice, and the right tools, and being able to see what we’ve been missing in higher ed.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Cathy Davidson
Cathy on Twitter
Attention
The gorilla experiment
Selective attention test video by Simons and Chabris (1999)
We have a capacity for learning constantly. -Cathy Davidson
Patients as co-learners with their physicians in the healing process
Examples of facilitation of learning, unlearning, and relearning
Students write a class constitution
What happens if you take responsibility for your own learning? - Cathy Davidson
Alvin Toffler's term: unlearning
Alvin Toffler has said that, "...in the rapidly changing world of the twenty-first century, the most important skill anyone can have is the ability to stop in ones tracks, see what isn't working, and then find ways to unlearn old patterns and relearn how to learn.
This requires all of the other skills in this program but is perhaps the most important single skill we will teach."
...Sadly, we all find gorillas in our lives. They usually come through tragedy... We have all had those moments when there's a before and an after in your life when the world looks different. The world was not different. What changed was your ability to see a world that you didn't have to see when you were priviledged not to... when you thought the world only had basketball tosses in it. It wasn't that the gorilla didn't exist; it was that you didn't see it. -Cathy Davidson
Multitasking
Fears about the calculator
Debates in state legislatures and in the senate when Motorola wanted to put a radio in the car
Radio actually helped save lives, especially in night driving, to combat the issue of falling asleep at the wheel
Brain is constantly multitasking; we just don't realize it
Flow tasks (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Brain surgery, playing chess, dancing to rock music, video game playing
Reading a book is not considered a flow task - people go off the page in 2-3 minutes; we think we are concentrating, when we are not
Unitasking
Howard Rheingold on Attention Literacy
There's always something we are missing
Index cards: Write down three things we've missed and we haven't talked about...
Tools, methods, and partners are needed to fight attention blindness
Recommendations
Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies
Social Media Literacy article by Rheingold on Educause
HASTAC is an alliance of more than 13,000 humanists, artists, social scientists, scientists and technologists working together to transform the future of learning.
The Futures Initiatives on HASTAC
Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
NetSmart by Howard Rheingold
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
It's Complicated by Dana Boyd
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12/26/2014 • 0
Teaching through student research
Getting students engaged in research is one of the ways we can make their learning experiences more tangible and more profound. In today's episode, Dr. Bethany Usher joins us to talk about what happens when we turn students into scholars.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Bethany M. Usher
Bethany's TEDx talk: Preparing Students for the World Through Undergraduate Research
Bethany on Twitter
Students as Scholars at George Mason
Assessment resources from Students as Scholars
Students as Scholars blog with each student writing about his or her research
Challenges of getting student research to work
Recognizing that research can happen in any discipline
Getting faculty to recognize that students can make a contribution
Helping students see that research is something they can do
Setting expectations for students
Examples of this kind of research
Rebecca Nelson (now a grad student at University of Connecticut) textile exhibit; band of knitted heads
Discovered a new knotting technique and how the piece had been repaired along the way
Currently living in Guatemala, studying textile production
Rebecca's blog
Student did research on a skeleton population and was the winner of the student researcher award at Mason
Authentic research
When the faculty member and the student don't know the answer when they begin
Other guidance
Determine where to place the research in the curriculum
Continuum between classroom-based research and individual research
Both challenges and benefits to getting classroom-based research to occur
Changwoo Ahn's Wetlands Ecology class
Council on Undergraduate Research - national organization that publishes a quarterly journal with lots of resources of what works in different environments
Set out a protocol for what you expect a student to be able to do
Rubric on their website on research expectations
Recommendations
7 Tips to Beautiful PowerPoint: Visual Slide Show to inspire us to simplify our presentations (Bonni)
National Conference on Undergraduate Research; have your students attend and present at it (Bethany)
Engaging Ideas by John C. Bean (Bethany)
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12/18/2014 • 0
Minds Online
Educational technology that is designed “with the brain in mind” can be a catalyst in facilitating learning.
On today’s episode, Dr. Michelle Miller draws from her research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology and shows us how to facilitate learning for minds online.
Podcast notes
Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology
How do we use our memory resources to process information
Study of human cognition and thought processes
What College Teachers Should Know About Memory: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology (June, 2011)
Journal of College Teaching
For the Internet generation, educational technology designed with the brain in mind offers a natural pathway to the pleasures and rewards of deep learning. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Michelle Miller shows how attention, memory, critical thinking, and analytical reasoning can be enhanced through technology-aided approaches. (Book description)
Effective teaching
Becoming an expert in a discipline, that journey from novice to expert... (Dr. Miller)
Not just facts; rich, interconnected network of knowledge
Skill acquisition
Motivation: Can't separate motivation, emotion, and cognition
Technology in education
Avoid the gadget-based approach
Interleaved learning: Mix-up the topics you're assessing...
Applied memory findings
The testing effect
The interleaving effect
The spacing effect
Minds Online
We made the internet to satisfy our needs and desires...
The myth of the tech savvy student
Students differentiate technology use
Skills and abilities from one domain don't always transfer over to another domain very well
Emphasizing why we are using a particular technology tool
Memory in the Internet age
Expertise and knowledge cannot be fully separated
Needed for problem solving
Speed necessity
Ability to perceive the connections
Motivating online students
Face-to-face context builds our skills and approaches to heighten motivation
These techniques are missing in the online environment
Procrastination is an even bigger factor
Distractions abound
[Motivation] is not all about the points [in the online environment]. (Dr. Miller)
Recommendations
Bonni recommended Dr. Miller's book (Minds Online) and ClassTools.net’s Fakebook tool to create a fake Facebook page/timeline… Going to teach business ethics next semester and have students create one for the Enron crisis.
Michelle recommended the following books:
Smarter than you think
The Invisible Gorilla
James Lang's Cheating Lessons and other books
Scarcity
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12/11/2014 • 0
Make large classes interactive
It seems that the larger classes get, the more distant our students can seem. On today’s episode, Dr. Chrissy Spencer helps us discover how to make large classes interactive.
Even if you teach classes of 20, the resources she uses in her classes as large as 200+ will be of benefit.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dr. Chrissy Spencer, teaches at Georgia Tech
Ph.D., Genetics, University of Georgia
Active learning video: Turning students into chili peppers
The interactive classroom
Learning Catalytics
Prepared in advance a few slides that help clarify commonly misunderstood concepts
Allowing students to fail or struggle with an answer
Interrupted case studies
Traditionally a set of materials where there are specific stopping points built in
Powerful, because students need to have their progress monitored and milestones achieved
Bonni's case studies rubric
Forming groups
Catme team maker
Team-based, low stakes assessments
Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning workshop on team based learning
Don't try team based learning half way
Start small
Switching from clickers to Learning Catalytics
Pearson's Learning Catalytics
Strength in the types of questions that can be asked
Bonni uses PollEverywhere
Flipped classroom
Khan Academy
Reinforce that reading ahead and reading in a particular way is important to making the class time in interesting ways
Process called team based learning
Lesson learned/ ignored: "start small and do things in a small and measured way"
Evernote
TopHat audience response system
Service learning
The way that students could apply learning from a content area in the real world and also give back to the community in some way (Chrissy)
Identified project partners that met certain criteria
Outside in the field
CATME tool helped to determine who had cars
Recommendations
The Dip (Bonni)
Find something that you love and bring it in to the classroom (Chrissy)
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12/4/2014 • 0
Cultivate creative assignments
When we get creative with what we assign students, we open up a whole new set of possibilities for student engagement and learning. On today’s episode, Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb helps us discover how to craft creative assignments that facilitate learning well.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb
Her bio and university web page
Recommended as a guest by past Teaching in Higher Ed guest: Dr. Josh Eyler
Cameron's students contributed to the Medieval Disability Glossary by including their research on the word 'lame'
Teaching philosophy
...to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar...
The truth about internet slang; it goes way back (in Salon Magazine)
Cameron's teaching philosophy from her website
Creative assignments
Must meet a specific goal and be measurable
Backwards design
Understanding by Design
Identify goals first
What evidence would exhibit those goals
Explore options for assignments that would provide that evidence
** Write a paragraph in "future English"
Authentic pedagogy
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner, The New Scientist, May 21, 1964
About authentic pedagogy
Places an emphasis on learning that is a construction of prior knowledge and a high value on knowledge that extends beyond the classroom.
** "Real world" is not just vocational, but for every aspect of life...
Active learning
About active learning
** Intro to Shakespeare class; hired actors to come in and had students come with annotated script and then were asked to co-direct the scenes
A veteran teacher takes on the role of a student (from Wiggins' blog)
Other ideas for creative assignments
Undergraduate research: Morgan Library in New York
Louis C.K.'s Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy routine
The role of education: equipping us to think
Arthur Holmes, The Idea of a Christian College
Recommendations
Bonni recommends Lines from The Princess Bride that could double as comments on Freshmen composition papers via McSweeney's.net
Episode 3: Lessons in Teaching from The Princess Bride
Cameron recommends that we follow Tina Fey's advice to "Say yes" (in her memoir Bossy Pants)
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11/20/2014 • 0
How to engage students in the classroom and online
It is such a crucial part of what we do as professors... Getting students involved in discussions and helping to facilitate their learning.
Dr. Jay Howard joins me on this episode to talk about how to engage students in the classroom and online.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Jay Howard
Engaging Your Students Face-to-Face and Online (July 2015) (Jossey-Bass)
Garner multiple intelligences theory
Sociologogical approach to observing the classroom
Norms
The real norm is not that students have to pay attention. It's that they have to pay civil attention.
Elevator norms
David Karp and William Yoels from Boston College
Episode on learning names
When students feel you value them enough to try to learn their names, they'll be much more forgiving of mistakes.
Two classroom norms that do not foster discussion
Civil attention, create the appearance of paying attention
Consolidation of responsibility for student participation
Attendance 2 app
Regardless of class size, there will be around five students who will become your dominant talkers who will account for 75-95% of student comments in the typical college class.
Online discussion forums
Waiting until the deadline
Two deadlines
Break students into groups
Netiquette examples
Engage Students
You can change norms. They are not fixed.
Shifting the workload toward the students.
This helps them learn more.
Recommendations
Bonni recommends: Michael hyatt's ideal week blog post and template
Jay, author of Apostles of Rock, recommends: The Lost Dogs
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11/13/2014 • 0
Using iPads in the higher ed classroom
Dr. Guy Trainin joins me for episode 22 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about using iPads and tablets in the classroom.
Podcast Notes
Guest
Dr. Guy Trainin
Bio
Blog
On Twitter
TechEdge on Pinterest
TechEdge on YouTube: iPads in the Classroom
Life in the classroom before the iPad
iPad integration in a higher ed classroom
Padlet
Exit Ticket
Socrative
When the professor has invested, but the institution has not
Educreations
Explain Everything
Touchcast (requires new iPad)
PollEverywhere
Supporting students with disabilities
Visual thesaurus
Visual thesaurus on the iPad
Dictionary.com iPad app
Virtual keyboard as a built in feature to support students
Anne Lamott emphasizes having "shitty first drafts" in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing, by Peter Elbows
The “haves” and “have nots”
Collaborative learning assignments
Augmented reality book report covers
Twitter tutorial - collaborative project with kids (imagine what is then possible with higher ed students)
Recommendations
Mine craft (Guy)
Minecraft.edu component
Feedly (Bonni)
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11/6/2014 • 0
Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom
Students voting to extend the class time? Professors reporting that students are doing the reading for the course without threats or other forms of coercion? Today, in episode 21, Dr. Mark Carnes joins me to talk role immersion games in the higher ed classroom.
Podcast notes
Dr. Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Barnard College
Author of Minds on fire how role immersion games transform college, published by Harvard University Press
The classroom struggle before Reacting to the Past
Your class was less boring than most.
Role immersion games
Reacting to the Past
Audio from Faculty Perspectives video (through the 2 minute mark)
Transcending disciplinary structures.
Origins of the title of Minds on Fire
What we give up as professors to make role immersion games work
Contributions from other academic disciplines to Reacting to the Past
Scalability
Aspects of playing the games
Competition
Imagining what it’s like to be someone else
“Teaching” civil disobedience
You give up the control of knowing what the classroom is going to be like. Instead, you get the drama and, often, these moments of extraordinary student performances and transformations that leave you amazed.
Queen's College class did the India Reacting class. High attendance. All focused on it.
While some skepticism is appropriate, our tried and true methods aren't that fail safe.
Structure is different, because the "slacker's" peers are counting on him/her.
They can't hide out like they can in other classes.
Becoming someone different from who you are
Recommendations
Serial podcast (Bonni)
Google "Reacting to the Past" videos (Mark)
Reacting to the Past website
Reacting to the Past consortium
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10/30/2014 • 0
Moving a course online and other community questions
In this episode, Dave Stachowiak joins me to answer community questions.
Podcast notes
Bonni gives an update on lessons from cheating lessons episode with James Lang
Community Questions
Gilbert asks:
How do I engage students in discussion boards?
WordPress.com
A domain of one's own (talked about on episode 18 with Audrey Watters)
Use different mediums to mix it up each week
Engage in some meaningful way with at least one other person
YouTube's creator studio
A listener asks:
How do I take an in-person class and put it online?
Revisit learning outcomes
Revisit assessments
Treat content as "chunks" or assets
Leverage existing and customized content
A listener asks:
What do you elearning authoring systems do you recommend?
SCORM-compliant courses (sharable content object reference model)
Adobe Captivate
Articulate's eLearning Studio and Storyline
TechSmith's Camtasia
Screenflow
Recommendations
Dave recommends
Lift app
The name of this app has since been changed to:
https://www.coach.me/
Bonni recommends
Post-it Plus app
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10/23/2014 • 0
Cheating Lessons
Catching a student cheating can evoke all sorts of feelings: frustration, disappointment, anger, ambivalence. In episode 19 of Teaching in Higher Ed, Dr. James M. Lang joins me to talk about lessons learned from cheating.
Podcast notes
Our reactions to cheating
Disheartening experience
Feels personal
You're the last thing on their mind. When a student is cheating... their cheating isn't an assault on your and your values. - James M. Lang
The reality of how many students are cheating in higher ed today
[Cheating] is a long term and persistent problem in higher education. - James M. Lang
The learning environment's contribution to cheating
A positive or a negative contribution
The curricula
The individual classes
Reducing the likelihood for cheating
Infrequent, high-stakes assessment
Engage in more frequent assessment (with feedback)
When students have the opportunity to retrieve knowledge from their mind multiple times, and then do something with it, the more likely they are to remember it.
Service learning: helps foster students' intrinsic motivation
Offering unique learning experiences each semester
Plagiarism vs cheating
Both fall on a spectrum from easy/opportunity cheating to more planned
Cheating and how learning works
Academic integrity as something that has to be learned
Knowledge: What is plagiarism? What's a citation/source?
Skill: Citing sources, etc.
Value: Belief that it's important and it matters
Academic integrity campaigns: Involve your students
Integrity at Lamar University Poster Project
Advice for when we inevitably still encounter cheating
Step back emotionally
Have an educational response
Report it when it happens
Other cheating lessons
Self efficacy: Carol Dweck's research on mindset (video)
Growth or fixed mindset
Fixed mindset
"I can't write."
"I can't do math."
Fixed mindset were more likely to report that they would cheat the next time
"Learning is hard, but you're capable of getting better."
"You say you worked hard on this."
Early success opportunities
Recommendations
Bonni recommends: James Lang's Fullbright Specialist Program and speaking
Jim recommends: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gives a TED Talk on Flow: The secret to happiness
Lessons for us in our lives, but also for how we approach our teaching
Ending Credits
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10/16/2014 • 0
How technology is changing higher education
Audrey Watters joins me for episode 18 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about how technology is changing higher education.
Podcast notes
Audrey Watters
on Twitter
Kassandra in Greek mythology
Kassandra on Urban Dictionary
Alan Levine @CogDog
University of Mary Washington's Maker Space
The mythology
Science and technology obsession
We tend to not look at the past very well, in considering EdTech
The history of teaching machines
Predates computers
Patents in late 1800s building devices that would teach people
Teachers would be freed from lecturing and could be freed up to mentor and support students
Educational psychology
BF Skinner perhaps best known inventor of teaching machines
The programable web
Different model. Comes from the web.
Rather than being just the recipients of knowledge, [students] now can be active contributors... building and sharing their own knowledge in a meaningful way. - Audrey Watters
Constructing knowledge and sharing it with a network
Reevaluating what we expect students to know and do
How do we assimilate, how do we process, how do we share knowledge?
Easier to participate as an academic in these new networks
Privacy implications
I know you you are and I saw what you did by Lori Andrews
These digital tools demand our attention in a different way. - Audrey Watters
There is a level of vulnerability that learning always involves, but it does take on a different level when we do it in public. - Audrey Watters
The downside of having all student work live within the LMS
Distractions abound
Push notifications change what's being demanded of us
The Colbert Report
Walter Mischel talks about his book "The Marshmallow Test"
Audrey Watters writes about the new Apple Watch
Digital literacy
Mozilla's digital literacy project
University of Mary Washington's A domain of one's own
Video that describes the Domain of One's Own initiative
Where to get started
Mozilla's digital literacy
Audrey Watter's EdTech Guide
For educators
For technology professionals
Privacy and politics
More than cheerleading
Data and privacy
The women and people of color gap in the EdTech universe
Recommendations
Bonni recommends Aziz Ansari defines feminism on letterman
Audrey recommends Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert
10/9/2014 • 0
What happens when we study our own teaching
Guest
Dr. Janine Utell
Bio
Blog
Profile on Academia.edu
Study your own teaching
Be a reflective practitioner
Collect data on yourself
Involve the students
Teaching is something that is happening all of the time. - Dr. Janine Utell
Bonni used Remind service/app to connect with her students to see if the song sung at the start of this This American Life episode was still in their heads, the day after we listened to it in class
The Dip
The Course of a Course, by James Athernon
The trouble with course evaluations
Failure can be a good thing to value. Failure, in terms of what didn't work for me, but also failure on the students' part. - Dr. Janine Utell
Importance of taking risks in studying our own teaching and assessment
Recommendations
Bonni's recommendation
Use the B key when presenting with Keynote or PowerPoint
Janine's recommendations
Dear Committee Members: A Novel, by Julie Schumacher
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your Classroom Will Improve Student Learning, by Jose Antonio Bowen
Jose Bowen on Twitter
10/2/2014 • 0
Biology, the brain, and learning
Biology, the brain, and learning
Guest
Dr. Joshua Eyler, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University
His Bio on Rice University's Center for Teaching Excellence
His Blog
Follow Josh Eyler on Twitter
Initial interest in the field of teaching and learning as a scientific enterprise
What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain
Brain-based learning
Amazing discoveries, but some limitations
Gulf was created between the scientists and educators
Cherry-picking results
Too limiting, looks primarily at neuroscience and cognitive psychology
The New Science of Teaching and Learning: Using the Best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science in the Classroom, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Framework for a biological basis of learning
Bolster what we are learning from neuroscience to also include evolutionary biology and human development
Context about anything that we are learning.
The journey of an educator
Doesn't see students as subjects of experiments
Understanding teaching and learning as a science, really created a bridge
Prior knowledge - biological construct
Mental models
Learning from failure
The expert blind spot
Making assumptions about prior learning
Advice for next steps
Mind, brain, and education at Harvard's graduate school of education
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning by James E. Zull
What I find exciting is that we're starting to ask different kinds of questions now. -Josh Eyler
Guest post Josh wrote on MassMedievil.com
Finally, nothing but a breath, a comma, separates us from our students–for we do not teach medieval literature, medieval art, medieval history, or medieval archaeology; we teach students about these subjects, about new ways to see their world through the lens of the past. Our field will continue to live and breathe only insofar as we dedicate ourselves to teaching it. And here I look to the wisdom of my dissertation director, Fred Biggs, who once told me that *everything* is a teaching activity—writing, presenting, publishing, but especially our work in the classroom, where we will teach hundreds and even thousands of students over the course of a career. The work we do with our students will push back the boundaries of our knowledge about the Middle Ages ever further, but to accomplish this we need to tear down the tenuous hierarchies of our classrooms—professor/student, expert/novice—and move forward together as fellow learners, engaging in projects together, teaching each other, finding meaning together in this moment—our own pause, our breath, our comma.
Movie clip: "student/teacher... learners... not much really separates us." - Josh Eyler
Empathy is the foundation for all good teaching. - Josh Eyler
Video clip of professors reading aloud negative student evaluations
There's a vulnerability in the teaching/learning interaction. Students put themselves in a very vulnerable place, willingly, when they say, 'I don't know that; please help me learn that.' It's almost sacred that they're doing that. We have to take that and value it very highly. - Josh Eyler
Recommendations
Bonni's:
Overcast - a powerful yet simple iphone podcast player
Josh's:
IMDb: Wit (2001)
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Faculty Focus newsletter
Tomorrow's Professor from Stanford University
9/25/2014 • 0
How to get students to participate in discussion
The reading has been assigned. You have prepared the questions, in advance. As you ask them, you are met by blank stares. This week on Teaching in Higher Ed: How to get students to participate in discussion with Dr. Stephen Brookfield.
Podcast notes
My guest this week is Dr. Stephen Brookfield. His career has spanned decades, with a focus on helping those of us in higher ed more effective at facilitating learning.
Guest information
Dr. Stephen Brookfield
His band: The 99ers
Playing music... brings a completely different part of your being into existence. I love that I have this very visceral and emotional side, right front and center in my life, which is a nice contrast to the cognitive element of thinking about teaching.
His bio
Teaching as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms, by Dr. Stephen Brookfield
Definition of terms
Discussion
It isn't people talking. You can actually have silent techniques, like when you use the chalk talk technique.
When a majority of learners are involved in exploring some topic that is of mutual concern to them. In exploring that topic, they're trying to gauge its multiple shades... by taking into account other people's views on it...
Teaching with discussion
Creating the conditions under which that kind of "to and fro"ing can take place.
Assessing discussion
Class participation grading rubric
Techniques for engaging with discussion
Allows for thinking time
Structured silence
TodaysMeet
Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won't Stop Talking
50 Great Ways to Get People Talking (coming in 2015)
Actualizing democracy
Critical incident questionnaire (been using it for 22 years now: out of thousands of responses - "We really appreciate when you tell us why we're doing what we're doing.")
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom
Modeling discussion when teaching
Recommendations
Google voice + hangouts (Bonni)
"Try to find some way of researching how your students are experiencing your teaching." (Stephen)
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9/18/2014 • 0
Engaging difficult students in higher ed
Dave and I talk about how to deal with students that we perceive as difficult, engaging them in the learning experiences in higher ed.
Podcast notes
Engaging difficult students in higher ed
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
Dave and I talk about how to engage students that we perceive as difficult. We start by describing the dangers in labeling people as difficult.
Be cautious about focusing on the more challenging students, at the expense of the learner who is engaged and desiring to learn.
Dave tells a story about how his chemistry teacher created a memorable experience for his students.
Distinguishing students who don't want to be there, but aren't distracting other students from learning, and those who are barriers to others' learning.
Help students save face, when possible.
Attempt to keep conversations one-on-one, unless there's a compelling reason that the dialog needs to happen in the classroom community.
Recommendations
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Shelia Heen
Hear Shelia Heen talk on Dave's Coaching for Leader's podcast about her latest book about feedback
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9/11/2014 • 0
Engaging millennials in the learning process
Help classrooms become worthy of human habitation... a dialog with Chip Espinoza on generational cohorts, specifically millennials.
Podcast notes
Generations
"We aren't saying that all these people are the same, just because they are the same age."
"My desire is not to have a conversation about millennials, but have a conversation with millennials. I don't want to have a conversation about professors; I want to have a conversation with professors."
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Won't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
Millennials
The "before" and "after" of teaching in the early 90s and today
In the 90s - no one would look at a syllabus
In the 2000s - more legalistic view of the syllabus
Can tend to perceive that quantity and quality are equal
Think that everything is negotiable (the most effective leaders and teachers of this generation enjoy the collaboration)
Frustrations of working with this generation
Teaching multi-generational audience: Baby boomers, GenX, and Millennials
What did you think about the book you were assigned (Chip's book)?
"What's your theoretical framework for saying it's hogwash?"
Characteristics
Access to information - where subject matter experts come in
Sage on the stage >> Allison King 1990s article to Guide on the side >> to Learning with...
KickStarter campaign for getting Chip's book into the hands of millennials
Importance of immediate feedback
Recommendations
Managing the Millennials
Millennials at Work
Take the quiz
iRobot Roomba
9/4/2014 • 0
How to get better at learning names
It that season again: A lot of new faces and a lot of new names. How to get better at learning students' names.
Podcast notes
How to get better at learning names
Dave and I talk about the approaches we use to learn students' names.
Attendance2 iphone app on iTunes (iOS) There is an iPad app, in addition to the iPhone app, but they don't sync/connect with each other. It is best to choose the device that you'll have with you during each class session, to make the process of attendance tracking easier.
SoundEver app on iTunes - saves audio recordings into Evernote
Recommendations
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (Dave)
Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle (Bonni references this book, in relation to Dave's recommendation)
Visual thinking talk by Giulia Forsythe - her bio on Twitter is great: "I work at a university supporting teaching & lifelong learning. I think in pictures. Doodling helps me be a better listener, problem solver and communicator."
Article: A learning secret: Don't take notes with a laptop from Scientific American Counter-point article: Study proves why we need digital literacy education
Pencast example from Bonni on marketing (created with a LiveScribe smartpen)
Doodle breaks My visual notes from Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipine
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8/28/2014 • 0
Back to school prep
It can be stressful to head back into another year of teaching in higher ed. However, there certainly are actions we can take to make our experience more peaceful and be more present for our students as we get our new academic year underway.
Our foci for the Fall
Sandie and I share about where we are focused for the start to our academic year. We both have very different roles at the university, but share a desire for continually wanting to improve our students' learning experiences in our classes. We talk about the technology tools we will be using to support our work this year, along with other ways we will seek to facilitate learning more effectively.
Updates to classes
Technology-using professors on LinkedIn
Cheating Lessons, by James Lang
Attendance 2 iPhone app
Remind
Check list for class planning
Grant Wiggin's checklist resources
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Asana
Recommendations
Camscanner app, which connects with Evernote (Sandie)
Evernote's use in giving students feedback on their resumes (Bonni)
The End
Ending Human Trafficking podcast
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8/21/2014 • 0
Developing 21st Century skills
It is going to take creative collaboration to better equip college students to develop 21st century skills. My guest, Jeff Hittenberger, has worked in higher ed, K-12; in the U.S. and abroad; and as a teacher and as an administrator. His unique perspective helps us think about how to prepare our students in higher ed for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities.
Inspiration from childhood in Haiti
Learned from experiences growing up in Haiti.
Most common response to the question: "What's up?"
"I'm on fire."
Regardless of what kind of adversity you are facing, you are alive, and you have something to say.
21st Century Skills
What does higher education have to learn from what's happening in K-12, as we all work to develop 21st century skills?
Disconnect between higher ed and K-12
Communication that one might anticipate happening between these educational bodies doesn't happen. Can lead to gaps in students' educational experiences. 21st century skills gives us one way to talk about what we have in common.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Resources for educators
4 competency areas, referred to as the 4Cs
PIMCO partnership
Carnegie hour
Lipscombe - competency-based higher education
Critical thinking and problem solving
Important for faculty to discover where there are differences in how they gauge critical thinking and develop ways to assess it in similar ways
Creativity
SmartBoards being used to teach physics
"He who opens a school door closes a prison." - Victor Hugo
The maker movement
TED Talk: Thomas Suarez - 12-year-old app developer
Communication
How can we tap into the passions of our students and engage them?
Why Do Americans Stink At Math by Elizabeth Green in the New York Times
Collaboration
How the increase in technological capabilities is changing our ability to collaborate
Character
As parents of a college-age daughter, Jeff and his wife care more about who their daughter becomes as a person, in terms of her character, than they do about the knowledge she is gaining. Answering: "Who am I? Who am I becoming? What am I contributing to the world?"
Recommendations
Cheating Lessons, by James Lang (Bonni)
21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times, by Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel (Jeff)
Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century, by The Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills (Jeff)
8/14/2014 • 0
Academic personal knowledge management workflow
Librarians can be such a wonderful resource to us as faculty. Today's guests are Georgia Tech Academic Librarians: Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro. They have been a tremendous help to me - and I've never even met them in person. Call it a testament to the power of academic personal knowledge management...
Episode 9: Academic personal knowledge management
These are the notes from our dialog together about academic personal knowledge management for academic researchers and librarians.
Podcast notes
Guests
Crystal Renfro
Mary Axford
The comments made by Crystal and Mary during the podcast are their own opinions and do not represent those of Georgia Tech.
Academic personal knowledge management
Academic Personal Knowledge Management - AcademicPKM.org
Free course: A year to improved productivity for librarians and academic researchers
Link roundups
Our recent PKM discoveries
Jamie Todd Rubin's Going Paperless Blog (Mary)
Jamie Todd Rubin's post on simplifying Evernote notebooks (Mary)
Bonni advises to start simple with Evernote notebooks (I use 1) personal, 2) work, and 3) reference; plus 4) a shared/family notebook with Dave called BondNotes)
I Click it and I Know it video from Mircosoft about how OneNote works with the Surface tablet (Crystal)
PKM Foundations
Compares it to a Trapper Keeper folder; Ways of organizing information (Crystal)
First discovery of PKM was from a colleague at Georgia Tech, Elizabeth Shields (Mary)
Loves using Evernote: Helped her accomplish a move a few years back in a very short time (Mary)
Academic databases and PKM
How the databases have kept up, as well as how the researchers have kept up with the new features (Crystal)
Evernote to track and plan blogs and podcasts (Mary)
Bonni's Zotero tutorials
Catherine Pope's Zotero posts
It's very individual. What works for one person may not work for someone else.
Be sure that you don't let the 'doing the tool' well become more the goal versus achieving your purpose with the tool. (Crystal)
Archived version of our A Year to Improved Productivity for Librarians and Academic Researchers Program
Recommendations
ProfHacker | GradHacker | Catherine Pope's The Digital Researcher (Mary)
Tweet about the random sandwich generator from Dan Szymborski (Bonni)
This is why I really need adult supervision: I made a random sandwich generator based on my available cold cuts. pic.twitter.com/dnwyWFXpR1
— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) August 6, 2014
ScoopIt : Robin Good's Scoop.it sites on content curation (Crystal)
Reminders
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8/7/2014 • 0
Workflow show – Personal knowledge management tools
Enough with the hypothetical. Now we share what tools we use in our personal knowledge management systems.
Podcast notes
This episode walks through each of the phases of a personal knowledge management system and the tools we each use for each step.
Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.
Personal knowledge management definition
"Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud." - Harold Jarche
Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche
Bonni's online PKM modules
Framework
Bonni and Dave describe what tools we use in each of the stages of personal knowledge management.
Seek - capture
Feedly
Newsify
Mr. Reader
Unread
Podcasts
Bonni's favorite podcasts
Overcast
Instacast
Follow Dave on Twitter
Follow Bonni on Twitter
Subscribe to Bonni's Twitter lists
RSS
NextDraft: The day's most fascinating news
Audible
Drafts
Sense - curate
Dave's Pinboard
Bonni's Delicious
Evernote
Share - create
WordPress.com - free blog, good place to get started, but for most customization, you will want a self-hosted WordPress site
20 minute tutorial by Michael Hyatt on how to start your own self-hosted WordPress blog / website
Twitter
LinkedIn
Facebook
Recommendations
TextExpander (Dave)
Breevy (Bonni)
Feedback
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7/31/2014 • 0
Personal knowledge mastery
Personal knowledge management and mastery. How to capture information, curate it, and create new knowledge from it. It can be so challenging to keep up with everything we have on our plates, let alone to what's happening in the world and in areas that are most important to us.
Podcast notes
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
This episode introduces the terms personal knowledge mastery and management.
Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.
Personal mastery
“Personal mastery is a discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.” -Peter Senge
Personal knowledge management
Harold Jarche's PKM resources
Harold Jarche's introductory video
Personal knowledge mastery
Skills for 2020
KickStarter campaigns
StorkStand
Potato salad
Framework
Seek - capture
Sense - curate
Share - create
Definition
"Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud." - Harold Jarche
Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche
Bonni's online PKM modules:
1. Introduction to PKM
2. PKM demo (the actual tools I use in my PKM process)
3. PKM for academics
Recommendations
Practical Typography by Butterick (Dave)
Dave Pell's NextDraft - The day's most fascinating news (Bonni)
Feedback
On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/7
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7/24/2014 • 0
Eight seconds that will transform your teaching
How can we use silence to condition our students to answer the questions we pose?
Podcast notes: Eight seconds of silence that will transform your teaching
It is counter-intuitive. We want students to engage with us, so we pose questions. Then, they just look at us, or down at their desks, with a pained or bored expression. We decide this whole question-asking thing is for the birds... or, at least, for a different kind of class/discipline than the one in which we teach.
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
How we condition ourselves not to ask questions and condition our students not to answer them.
We try to get our students to engage by asking a question. They stare back at us, blankly. It's awkward.
Thinking in terms of what to cover in class, versus where the needs actually are.
What has to happen before a student will answer a question.
Process what's been asked.
See if they can formulate an answer to the question.
Formulate an answer in their head (how they will convey their answer).
Decide if it is safe to answer.
Raise their hand, or speak (depending on the cultural rules in the classroom).
The 8 second rule takes this time I to account. It used the power of silence to pressure students to take to risk of engaging.
EdTech Finds
Broadening the definition of EdTech for the purpose of sharing a couple things that have captured our attention:
Evernote water bottle (Bonni) After recording the show, I saw that not only is this a great water bottle, but it is also associated with a great cause: WaterAid.
Turning off email on phone (Dave); Essentialism book
7/17/2014 • 0
What this Trader Joe’s sign teaches us about professional development
Overcome the excuses we make that stop us from pursuing more professional development opportunities in this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.
There's a sign posted in our local (and beloved) grocery store: Trader Joe's. "Please do not use this machine if you have not been trained," it reads. The machine in question is a drink dispenser. As absurd as this is, in some cases, there's more training required to dispense raspberry lemonade than there is to teach a college class.
Guest: Dave Stachowiak
There are abundant resources out there for professional development, but we can sometimes be held back by our own excuses.
Professional development excuses and opportunities
Here are the most common excuses for not pursuing more training on how to teach and how to overcome each of them:
Not enough time
Podcasts (Bonni's podcast recommendations)
Audio books (Dave listens via Audible.com)
A couple of audio books that Dave particularly enjoyed listening to lately on Audible:
Adam Grant's Give and Take
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
When you're waiting (Pocket)
Too hard to keep up
Subscribing to blogs (feedly)
Twitter
Bonni's professional development Twitter lists:
Teaching in Higher Ed
EdTech
Teaching and learning centers
ProfHacker
My discipline is unique
Coursera
EdEx
Nothing I've tried before works
Filming or recording yourself teaching
My university doesn't dedicate resources for professional development
Faculty development centers at other universities
USC's Center for Teaching Excellence videos
Grass roots efforts
EdTech group at Vanguard
EdTech tools
JotPro stylus (Dave)
iAnnotate (Bonni)
7/10/2014 • 0
Your teaching philosophy: The what, why, and how
How to formulate, refine, and articulate your teaching philosophy.
Podcast notes
The academic portfolio: A practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service by J. Elizabeth Miller
Miller provides examples of the narrative from actual promotion and tenure portfolios.
What is a teaching philosophy?
Why we teach. Why teaching matters.
Not just a formula for teaching structure, but the rationale behind the structure.
Why is having a teaching philosophy important?
Helps guide our teaching methods. Needed in the job hunting process. Typically part of the promotion/tenure process at most universities.
How to identify, articulate, & refine it?
Questions from The Academic Portfolio (p. 13):
What do I believe about the role of a teacher, the role of a student?
Why do I teach the way I do?
What doesn't learning look like when it happens?
Why do I choose the teaching strategies and the methods that I use?
How do I assess my students learning?
Questions of my own that I have found useful in articulating my teaching philosophy:
Who are my students? How I describe them says a lot about how I approach my teaching.
Who am I, as an educator? How I describe myself says a lot about my teaching, too.
What is teaching? Is the purpose to convey information, or to facilitate learning (or something else altogether)?
Planet Money episode about young woman becoming a business owner in North Korea.
What are the artifacts of my teaching? Observable things.
What would I see/hear/experience that would be evidence of those beliefs, if I was in your class?
Espoused beliefs vs theories in use. Chris Argyris / Edgar Schein
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7/5/2014 • 0
Lessons in teaching from The Princess Bride
This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity approaches, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Lessons in Teaching from The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride on Facebook - official site
Store (selling magnets... if only today's fridges were magnetic)
Princess Bride party game
IMDB: The Princess Bride
Test your knowledge: The Princess Bride quiz
From: "Who played the grandson?" (Fred Savage) to "What town is Inigo Montoya from?" (huh?)
The Wonder Years
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Help students break things down. visualization. pencasts.
As you wish.
Pay attention to wishes... dreams... going to take a lot to get there. grit. resilience.
From Psychology Today:
"Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes. Psychologists have identified some of the factors that make someone resilient, among them a positive attitude, optimism, the ability to regulate emotions, and the ability to see failure as a form of helpful feedback."
Beware of ROUSs (rodents of unusual size)
Politics in higher ed. power. French and Raven's five bases of power.
From MindTools:
"One of the most notable studies on power was conducted by social psychologists John French and Bertram Raven, in 1959." They identified five bases of power:
Legitimate – This comes from the belief that a person has the formal right to make demands, and to expect compliance and obedience from others.
Reward – This results from one person's ability to compensate another for compliance.
Expert – This is based on a person's superior skill and knowledge.
Referent – This is the result of a person's perceived attractiveness, worthiness, and right to respect from others.
Coercive – This comes from the belief that a person can punish others for noncompliance.
EdTech Tools
HaikuDeck (Bonni)
Pinboard (Dave)
6/30/2014 • 0
Still not sold on rubrics?
Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity approaches, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Quotes
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Resources Mentioned
Introduction to Rubrics*: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning.
Harold Jarche's Personal Knowledge Mastery Framework
Seek
AACU value rubrics
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything
Wiggins (part 2)
Sense
Delicious bookmarking site
My rubrics saved on Delicious
Evernote
Tapes
Share
Blog about them
Tweet about them
Recommendations
Remind (Bonni)
Tapes (Dave)
Note from Bonni re: Tapes. The application only includes 60 minutes of recording per month, which would not be enough for most of us educators in a typical semester, if we were using the service for a number of assignments. The app makers are not very forthright about this shortcoming in their documentation, when you purchase it. They indicated to me on Twitter that they are exploring options for expanding what's available, but as of this recording, no solution has been communicated.
6/27/2014 • 27 minutes, 54 seconds
Three things my children have taught me about teaching
Welcome to this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity approaches, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Guest
Dave Stachowiak, Ed.D
Strawberry Farms
Three things my children have taught me about teaching in higher ed
It’s often not about me
You never know what they’ll remember
It’s the little things that add up to something big
EdTech Tools
Canva.com
Omni Outliner
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