Jennifer Coon talks about how to know our audience in an AI world on episode 496 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I'm always interested in talking with students about how they got to the point that they're at today. -Jennifer Coon There is value in the blank slate. -Jennifer Coon Professors are the ones who are really training students to be the next economists, to be the next scientists, to be the next accountants, to be the next everything. -Jennifer Coon Service l...
Dec 14, 2023•42 min•Ep 496•Transcript available on Metacast Tolulope (Tolu) Noah shares about using QR codes to design engaging learning experiences on episode 495 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode QR codes can be used to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles, specifically in regards to providing multiple means of engagement and providing multiple means of representation. -Tolulope (Tolu) Noah If your students created a video, why not create QR codes to share that video with other students so that they can lea...
Dec 07, 2023•37 min•Ep 495•Transcript available on Metacast Todd Zakrajsek shares about the ones who are too often left behind in higher education on episode 494 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I don't want to see a person left behind. -Todd Zakrajsek I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons. -Todd Zakrajsek Teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible. -Todd Zakrajsek Nobody fails alone. -Todd Z...
Nov 30, 2023•48 min•Ep 494•Transcript available on Metacast Maha Bali exudes openness as a way of being on episode 493 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I don't really know everything I have to say, but I'm willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it. -Maha Bali If people don't have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they'll just say they are fine. -Maha Bali This is a space where everyone in the room has to be collectively inclusive, and that's kind of part of what equity an...
Nov 22, 2023•41 min•Ep 493•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Caulfield shares about Verified, which he co-authored with Sam Wineburg, on episode 492 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The real impact is that you have a number of people within a community that kind of keep other people in check. -Mike Caulfield The field of argumentation theory has provided illuminating insights. -Mike Caulfield I want you to have the tools to be taken seriously. -Mike Caulfield I want you to be able to argue ethically. -Mike Caulfield Resou...
Nov 16, 2023•46 min•Ep 492•Transcript available on Metacast Stephen Bloch-Schulman talks about teaching through experiences on episode 491 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode When students tell me what they think their beliefs are, what I'm hearing is what they wish they believe, not what they believe. -Stephen Bloch-Schulman I think what we're doing when we're talking about beliefs is often just naming how we wish we were. -Stephen Bloch-Schulman Resources Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisio...
Nov 09, 2023•40 min•Ep 491•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about navigating insecurity in teaching on episode 490 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode 20 years later and I still run into nervousness. The intensity and the kind of nervousness is different, and it often comes up in unsuspecting ways. -Dave Stachowiak How can you open the first 10 seconds of a class to capture attention, tell a story, and engage participants? -Dave Stachowiak I always have a something in my back pocket, eit...
Nov 02, 2023•40 min•Ep 490•Transcript available on Metacast Lindsay Doukopoulos talks about teaching with artificial intelligence on episode 489 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Learning is exceptionally difficult to really assess in a meaningful way at scale. -Lindsay Doukopoulos Students are almost exactly at the same place that faculty are in terms of their skepticism and anxiety about these tools. -Lindsay Doukopoulos Learning is change. -Lindsay Doukopoulos Resources Auburn Online’s Teaching with Artificial Intelligence ...
Oct 26, 2023•43 min•Ep 489•Transcript available on Metacast Karen Costa shares about climate action pedagogy on episode 488 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Start where you are. -Karen Costa Some folks are starting to use these renewable resources like solar and wind to power servers. -Karen Costa Resources adrienne maree brown Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown Holding Change, by adrienne maree brown Pithari, example from Sandie Morgan’s life Regeneration's Nexus All We Can Save Venn Diagram OneHE Climate Action Peda...
Oct 19, 2023•43 min•Ep 488•Transcript available on Metacast Ijeoma Nwaogu shares about her book on Overcoming Imposter Anxiety on episode 487 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We start to question ourselves, and that feeling is really uncomfortable. -Ijeoma Nwaogu One word that I use in the book is called imposterize. -Ijeoma Nwaogu It's so valuable to be around diverse folks, folks who are different from you, but it's so important to also be in with like-minded folks, folks who look like you, folks who have similar beliefs be...
Oct 12, 2023•45 min•Ep 487•Transcript available on Metacast Jenae Cohn speaks about design for learning on episode 486 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode At the core of any class we're teaching, we have to think about how a student or a user is going to navigate through that experience. -Jenae Cohn I encourage a balance of getting some feedback from your students after the class is over and using the analytics within it to come to some conclusions about what you could revise or do differently the next time you offer the course....
Oct 05, 2023•40 min•Ep 486•Transcript available on Metacast Pia Lauritzen shares how to use questions in new ways on episode 485 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We know that questions are extremely powerful. -Pia Lauritzen We actually use questions to distribute responsibility. -Pia Lauritzen Resources Pia Lauritzen’s website Questions: Brief Books About Big Ideas, by Pia Lauritzen What You Don’t Know About Questions (TEDx Talk) Six Reasons Successful Business Leaders Love questions, by Pia Lauritzen Question Jam Qvest Obser...
Sep 28, 2023•44 min•Ep 485•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Silverman shares an introduction to neurodiversity on episode 484 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode Autism is increasingly understood as a spectrum condition and experience. -Sarah Silverman It is important to reflect on your own educational journey. -Sarah Silverman Resources Instructors are learners too: Making faculty development accessible to faculty, by Sarah Silverman A correction on the term neurodiversity, by Martijn Dekker Autistic Community and the Neur...
Sep 20, 2023•43 min•Ep 484•Transcript available on Metacast Jesse Stommel shares about Undoing the Grade on episode 483 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode For us to be talking about something like unlearning or ungrading, there's an irony in that because we are the people who need to do that work the most and the people for whom that work is probably the hardest. -Jesse Stommel The only wrong way to do something is to do it unintentionally, to do it in a way that isn't carefully thinking through what we're doing. -Jesse Stommel...
Sep 14, 2023•50 min•Ep 483•Transcript available on Metacast Isis Artze-Vega and Oscar Miranda Tapia discuss Connections Are Everything on episode 482 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If it's not working for you and you can't maintain a certain level of wellness, then it's not working. No matter what you're seeing happen in your students, it is not working because it cannot happen at the cost of your wellness. - Isis Artze-Vega It's about being present. - Isis Artze-Vega The relationship that you have with someone does not hav...
Sep 07, 2023•37 min•Ep 482•Transcript available on Metacast Derek Bruff shares about assignment makeovers in the AI age on episode 481 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode The technologies at play in higher education changed dramatically in a very short amount of time, and that required us to kind of rethink what we were doing as teachers. -Derek Bruff For my course, I felt like it is fine to teach them to write using the AI tools as long as I can help them learn to use the tools well. -Derek Bruff Resources Assignment Makeovers i...
Aug 31, 2023•44 min•Ep 481•Transcript available on Metacast Ryan Johnson shares about teaching philosophy outside on episode 480 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode What are the dominant sounds on campus? What are the kind of patterns at which people move? What are the movement of the trees versus the light versus the animals versus people? -Ryan Johnson The relationship between the teacher and a student is not intelligence to intelligence, but instead will to will. -Ryan Johnson A good distraction is one that can help us come ba...
Aug 24, 2023•44 min•Ep 480•Transcript available on Metacast Pooja Agarwal shares about lessons in life and retrieval practice on episode 479 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode 100 years of research demonstrates that the magic of learning happens at the third stage, the retrieval stage. -Pooja Agarwal I normalize forgetting, that's part of learning. -Pooja Agarwal Be practical and realistic when it comes to incorporating the science of learning. -Pooja Agarwal Resources Retrieval Practice Website James Lang’s Small Teaching The ...
Aug 17, 2023•40 min•Ep 479•Transcript available on Metacast David Rhoads and Bonni Stachowiak revisit the topic of hyflex learning on episode 478 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Hyflex in general is a choice between in person and synchronous, or in person and asynchronous, or a choice of all three of those things. -David Rhoads Resources Hyflex Learning Community Hybrid Flexible Course Design, edited by Brian J. Beatty Episode 309: Hyflex Learning with David Rhoads Episode 327: Misconceptions About Hyflex with David Rhoads...
Aug 10, 2023•45 min•Ep 478•Transcript available on Metacast Yasser Tamer discusses ways of being intentionally inclusive on episode 477 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect. -Yasser Tamer Do whatever you are interested in. -Yasser Tamer Let students choose their own pathway. -Yasser Tamer It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible. -Yasser Tamer Resources Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic ...
Aug 03, 2023•39 min•Ep 477•Transcript available on Metacast Bonni Stachowiak discusses unlocking our imagination inside and outside the LMS on episode 476 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode When it comes to getting people to be curious, we don't want them to be confused. High structure is really important, and then within the structure we want to be able to have elements of surprise and delight. -Bonni Stachowiak You're almost always going to be better off linking versus uploading. A similar idea would be thinking about embeddi...
Jul 27, 2023•31 min•Ep 476•Transcript available on Metacast Mia Zamora shares how she approaches making space for emergence in her teaching on episode 475 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Intentionality and listening are important qualities for facilitation. -Mia Zamora We need to lean into a sense of generous authority. -Mia Zamora Be mindful of what you know versus what the computer is suggesting. -Mia Zamora Resources What if Classrooms Were Rooted in Care, by Angela DeBarger The Equity-Care Matrix: Theory and Practice, by...
Jul 20, 2023•45 min•Ep 475•Transcript available on Metacast Timothy J. Shaffer shares about deliberative pedagogy and his work with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) at the University of Delaware Biden School of Public Policy and Administration on episode 474 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Listening deeply enough to be changed by what you learn is a hugely important practice. -Timothy Shaffer Resources Deliberative Pedagogy, edited by Idit Manosevitch, Maxine S Thomas, Timothy J Shaffer, and Nicholas V. Longo Creating S...
Jul 13, 2023•43 min•Ep 474•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak answer listener questions on episode 473 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Forgetting is the friend of learning. -Bonni Stachowiak (quoting Robert Björk) Our stated preferences aren’t always going to align with having sufficient challenge in that learning experience to produce deeper, more memorable learning. -Bonni Stachowiak Trust students. -Bonni Stachowiak (quoting Jesse Stommel and many others) Resources Pia Lauritzen - Danish...
Jul 06, 2023•32 min•Ep 473•Transcript available on Metacast Lance Eaton + Stead Fast have a dialog about their perspectives on artificial intelligence on episode 472 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Over time we feel like we are settled as educators and then it’s like nope, just kidding. -Lance Eaton Resources The College Essay is Dead, by Stephen Marche for The Atlantic New York City Public Schools Drop Ban on AI Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) HAL 9000 in the movie A Space Odyssey Inciting Joy, by Ross Gay The Align...
Jun 29, 2023•43 min•Ep 472•Transcript available on Metacast Tatiane Russo-Tait shares about equity and social justice in STEM education on episode 471 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode My dad told me that I needed to get my education and that education is the only path to liberation for folks like us. -Tatiane Russo-Tait I almost dropped out. -Tatiane Russo-Tait I was thinking about teaching so that I could be a role model and disrupt classroom spaces to be more welcoming and supportive. -Tatiane Russo-Tait Resources The ACCES...
Jun 22, 2023•36 min•Ep 471•Transcript available on Metacast Rob Eaton and Bonnie Moon share about building community in the college classroom on episode 470 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The better I understand students back stories, the more empathy and compassion I have for them. -Rob Eaton Resources Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, by Robert Eaton, Steven V. Hunsaker, and Bonnie Moon Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein The Influence of Teaching: Beyond St...
Jun 15, 2023•44 min•Ep 470•Transcript available on Metacast Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Student’s natural world is the technological world. -Maria Andersen Students have a lot of questions about how society has changed. -Maria Andersen All of the things we have today came about because people did something in the past. -Maria Andersen With generative AI, we have an incredible acceleration of change happening. -Maria And...
Jun 08, 2023•45 min•Ep 469•Transcript available on Metacast Ian Cook helps Bonni celebrate 9 years of podcasting and his new book, Scholarly Podcasting, on episode 468 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What is your purpose? -Ian Cook Resources Richard Berry, podcast scholar Dolly Parton on the More Perfect podcast The Most Perfect Album (songs about the U.S. Constitutional Amendments) “The Most Perfect Album” review; The Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts Michael Bossetta | Social Media and Politics Vincent Racaniello | This...
Jun 01, 2023•49 min•Ep 468•Transcript available on Metacast Cate Denial shares about her book A Pedagogy of Kindness on episode 467 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I need to be a partner with my students in this learning process. -Cate Denial I walk into class prepared for collaboration and discovery with my students. -Cate Denial Resources Care in the Academy Remi Kalir Jesse Stommel Sean Michael Morris Chris Friend Eyes on the Prize Ungrading Cathy Davidson Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the pod...
May 25, 2023•45 min•Ep 467•Transcript available on Metacast 
