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 a...
Jan 28, 2016•36 min
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 Interventio...
Jan 21, 2016•32 min
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 stu...
Jan 14, 2016•36 min
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 ...
Jan 07, 2016•35 min
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 Composi...
Dec 31, 2015•36 min
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 pe...
Dec 23, 2015•39 min
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...
Dec 17, 2015•39 min
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, ...
Dec 10, 2015•25 min
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 ...
Dec 03, 2015•39 min
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...
Nov 25, 2015•38 min
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 t...
Nov 19, 2015•41 min
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 id...
Nov 12, 2015•38 min
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 ...
Nov 05, 2015•38 min
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 edu...
Oct 29, 2015•34 min
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. ...
Oct 22, 2015•39 min
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/w...
Oct 15, 2015•38 min
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 ...
Oct 08, 2015•43 min
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...
Oct 01, 2015•28 min
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 er...
Sep 24, 2015•29 min
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 doin...
Sep 17, 2015•39 min
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 Te...
Sep 09, 2015•42 min
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, ne...
Sep 02, 2015•29 min
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 be...
Aug 27, 2015•29 min
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 p...
Aug 20, 2015•30 min
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...
Aug 13, 2015•35 min
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 poin...
Aug 06, 2015•39 min
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 Ha...
Jul 30, 2015•21 min
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 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 Printab...
Jul 23, 2015•38 min
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 sp...
Jul 23, 2015•40 min
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 web...
Jul 09, 2015•11 min
