In ages past, information distribution was a problem with few solutions. True, a printing press could be gleaned by a man of means and esteem, but with literacy scant, and paper steep, the dispersal potential, while intensified, remained circumscribed… and not cheap. Which is why the best shot for knowledge dropped by a founding father, or a scholar, to spread a lot farther was to assemble a conclave. Rooms were not prerequisite for compromise and understandings to happen, but they happened with...
Sep 02, 2020•4 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Dan wants to know... how long can you hold your breath? Sperm whales broadcast songs of nested digital clicks twice as loud as a rock concert to communicate over thousands of miles of open ocean. With their large-brained, digital, long-range connections, these marine mammals are the original online educators. Plus, they can dive to 7,000 feet and hold their breath for an hour and a half. But even a sperm whale comes up for air, and Dan assures us he has to catch his breath much more often. Teach...
Aug 13, 2020•5 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Dan's just back from an annual family pilgrimage to Cape Ann on the Massachusetts coast, where spending time with his four-year old grandson means roaming outdoors, digging in the garden, sleeping under the stars, and swimming. Maybe that's why Dan decided this week's topic would be suggestions for swimming in the ocean of online learning. Many faculty, especially those of us who trained in the previous century, have never taken an online course. But it’s never too late to learn t...
Jul 24, 2020•5 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast When you think about it, terminology is a kind of short-hand. Having an established, defined vocabulary allows academic colleagues to discuss their discipline without having to explain what they mean by every technical word they say, every time they say it. So isn’t it odd that,125 years since Wolsey Hall, Oxford, became the first college devoted to the practice, we’re still struggling to agree on what to call teaching and learning that doesn’t take place with everyone together in the same room?...
Jul 15, 2020•4 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Throughout Season One, our conversations with faculty and program directors have centered on the role of virtual learning communities and our efforts to encourage students to connect with one another. Well, the academic year has ended so you know what that means--time for teacher evaluations! In Wired Ivy’s first ever panel discussion, Dan spoke with a current student and two recent alumni from the online graduate programs we featured this spring: Gonzaga, Johns Hopkins, and University of Florid...
Jun 30, 2020•46 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Can a 500-year old teaching philosophy translate to online learning? Saint Ignatius of Loyola articulated a series of spiritual exercises, which became the basis of Jesuit learning. Central to this philosophy are the learner has primary agency in the learning, and the process of discovery and reflection will unsettle old ideas. Isn't unsettling old ideas exactly what innovative online higher education does? Kieran and Dan talk with Michael Carey, chair of the Department of Organizational Le...
Jun 16, 2020•44 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Moving a lecture from face-to-face classroom to virtual conferencing is a pretty straight-forward conversion. That doesn’t mean the switch is seamless or ideal, but it is feasible. Activities that are inherently welded to synchronous delivery in a physical space, like studio and field trips... that’s a different story. Or is it? While we’re on that topic, are online courses welded to the screen or is it possible to think outside the laptop and tablet to provide high quality active learning exper...
Jun 02, 2020•36 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Now that many institutions have closed the book on their spring term, educators may finally have some time to catch their breath, reflect on the emergency remote instruction experience, and think about how to prepare for various teaching contingencies in the fall. What better time to talk with an experienced educator on the front line of the sudden switch from brick-and-mortar classroom to digital delivery necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Our interview with Elisabeth Hamin Infield was reco...
May 19, 2020•32 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast The COVID-19 pandemic has caused nearly all higher ed institutions in the U.S. to switch their campus-based courses to remote delivery, and on very short notice. There’s already been quite a lot of media coverage on the challenges this change poses for instructors and institutions. Later in this season of Wired Ivy, we’ll be talking to a friend and colleague about her experiences making that transition from decades of experience as a face-to-face educator to remote delivery, mid-way through the ...
May 05, 2020•30 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast The novel coronavirus pandemic is disrupting families, communities, and workplaces everywhere. Famously, it’s disrupting higher education as well. Because for the foreseeable future we cannot gather in groups like classrooms, professors and students involuntarily had to move online. Emergency remote higher education is just that — a quick pivot. Still, we expect many professors adapting to this new reality will welcome lessons from best online practices. In this episode we’ll hear from Wired Ivy...
Apr 21, 2020•29 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, Kieran and Dan talked about the value of virtual learning communities to help students and faculty feel engaged and supported. Now we're shifting from theory to practice, sharing some of the things we’ve tried and continue to use in class to help foster learning communities. Listeners, help us make this a conversation by sharing your hits and your misses, asking for suggestions, and brainstorming solutions to challenges others face on our Wired Ivy LinkedIn Group , or by tweeting...
Apr 07, 2020•29 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Dan and Kieran discuss the contribution of online learning communities to better learning outcomes, their benefits and challenges, as well as creative ways to connect and manage virtual groups.
Mar 24, 2020•22 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Kieran Lindsey and Dr. Dan Marcucci have a combined 18 years of experience in the virtual classroom. Dan lives in Pennsylvania, Kieran lives in Missouri, and their online graduate program is based Virginia, so they're quite aware that online faculty and administrative staff can feel pretty isolated. You may have been teaching online for a long time now or relatively new to it. You may have been thinking about a move to online or suddenly find yourself doing it… regardless, you are all w...
Mar 11, 2020•20 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
