
Teaching in Higher Ed
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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
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
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
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
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  
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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) Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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* Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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. Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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
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  
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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* Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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*
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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* Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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) Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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. Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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) Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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.”
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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* Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.
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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.