In this episode, Rob and Jared take a break from the series on ChatGPT and OpenAI to talk with Eric Mishne, Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Forensics at Cedarville University. Prof Mishne, Rob, and Jared discuss making content more accessible to students and using different methods for instruction. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions. You can also visit our blog at cedarville.edu/focusblog for additional resources. We would love to get your feedback!  Please fill out our survey to help improve our podcast and serve you better. 

Professor Mishne embraces a flexed learning model in his classroom. Prior to class, his students will read an article, listen to a podcast, or watch a video which “primes the pump” for student engagement in class. Students bring this new knowledge that they obtain outside of the classroom so that class time can be used for applying and interacting with the content. For example, the students might view different kinds of speeches outside of class and then when they arrive at class, they will take a survey that gets them to analyze the speeches that they viewed.