
Episode 306
Agency, Learning, and Purpose
Teaching in Higher Ed · Bonni Stachowiak with Martha Burtis
April 23, 202045m 42s
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Show Notes
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
- 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