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 B...
Jun 30, 2016•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcas...
Jun 23, 2016•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jun 20, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 C...
Jun 09, 2016•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jun 02, 2016•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 [colorb...
May 26, 2016•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 discipl...
May 19, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 str...
May 12, 2016•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. —A...
May 05, 2016•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 28, 2016•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Dus...
Apr 21, 2016•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Apr 14, 2016•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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: Techn...
Apr 07, 2016•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 clas...
Mar 31, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 24, 2016•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 17, 2016•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Teachi...
Mar 10, 2016•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Facu...
Mar 03, 2016•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 d...
Feb 25, 2016•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 S...
Feb 18, 2016•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 11, 2016•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 04, 2016•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 pers...
Dec 23, 2015•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
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