In this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Jessica Riddell, professor of early modern literature and the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Bishop’s University in Quebec, Canada. Jessica is also the executive director of the Maple League of Universities, which is not, in fact, a group of Canadian super-heroes, but rather a consortium of four small universities that have banded together to support quality undergraduate education. Jessica shares her journey into the field of educational development, how collaboration across institutions can support the missions of those institutions, what she’s learning in her new position on the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and how she manages to get so much stuff done in her week.

https://www.jessicariddell.com/

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“I want my people to look like the experts they are, because I want them to be treated as colleagues, even though we are a service organization.”

In this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Shawn Miller, director of Learning Innovation at Duke University. Shawn’s unit combines faculty development, instructional technology, online program management, and more. Shawn shares how Duke Learning Innovation came to be and how the unit continues to integrate these different functions, and he provides strategic advice for centers for teaching and learning who are navigating the academic technology landscape.

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/

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In this episode of Centering Centers, we are concluding our trifecta of episodes on the AI disruption by sharing a specific example of how one center is responding to the challenge. Many of us have been benefitted from sharing examples of policies, statements, assignments, and ideas online through the AI for Educators Google group and pod listserv, in that spirit, I wanted to share out through this platform how my colleagues and I are working through these challenges.

My guests are my colleagues, Asim Ali, executive director of the Biggio Center, and Shawndra Bowers, who is, like me, an Associate Director in the Biggio Center, but whose focuses on learning experience design and online course production.

In our last episode, we learned about ChatGPT with Cynthia Alby. Today we are diving deeper into the ethics of AI and how we as educational developers might best support the conversations happening across our campuses.

To guide us in this conversation, we are speaking with Dr. Kevin Yee, Director of the Faculty Center at the University of Central Florida. Kevin has held numerous faculty and leadership positions at a range of institutions through his career including USF, Duke, Iowa, Pomona College and UC Irvine.

His research interests within pedagogy are wide, and have included student motivation, study skills, and various emerging technologies for teaching. He is currently co-editing a book of case studies on the intersection of VR and ethics in the college classroom.

Resources Mentioned: 

UCF's resource on Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence Writing

Christina DiMicelli's "A Discussion for Education" - Google Slide Repository of her research and resources on ChatGPT 

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Today on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Cynthia Alby,  who is Professor of Teacher Education and Faculty Director of Georgia College Journeys, in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. She shares her perspectives on ChatGPT and how it can catalyze needed change in the teaching landscape of  higher education.

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Today on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Teresa Focarile who is the Associate Director for Educational Development at the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at Boise State University. We discussed the many-layered approach they are implementing to support adjunct faculty's professional learning as well as job satisfaction. 

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Today on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Tom Laughner who is the Director of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Teaching and Learning center, in Memphis, Tennessee. 

Our conversation explores his work supporting faculty in the health professions and the successful micro-credentialing program called the Medallion Program.

Learn more about the Medallion initiative!

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Today on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Dana Grossman Leeman who is the Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Tufts University. We discussed her experiences, noticings and wonderings from attending the POD conference in person in Seattle this fall.

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This is Episode 30 and we are speaking with Cassandra Volpe Horii and Martin Springborg about their new free, open-access book: “What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs.” Click on the title to go to access the book through the Elon University's Series on Engaged Learning website. 

Cassandra Volpe Horii (@cvhorii) is the associate vice provost for education and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. A former president of the POD Network (2018-19) and founder of educational development centers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Curry College, Cassandra brings her background in STEM and college writing instruction to life in her current work on educational and systemic change at her institution and in higher education more broadly, as well as through projects such as the collaboration we discuss in today’s episode.

Martin Springborg has worked in the field of educational development since 2007. His writing and photographs on the topic of teaching and learning in higher education have appeared in Thought and Action and To Improve the Academy Stemming from his work as arts faculty and in educational development, Martin also co-authored the books “Meaningful Grading: A Guide for Faculty in the Arts” and of course, the book we will be talking about today:  “What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs”

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This is episode 29 of the CC podcast. This is the next installment in our chapter on SoEd. Our guest is Dr. Laura Baecher. Laura is an Associate Professor of TESOL at Hunter College (which is part of cuny system)  and she is a leader in their Academic Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

We know Laura as the founder and co-host of the centering centers podcast and that is the focus of this episode: how it started, how it's going, and where it might go in the future.

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PODFEST Invitation

I want to give a quick plug for a new event that the POD Squad, a subcommittee of POD’s DRI committee, is hosting, called POD Fest. It is a fully virtual, totally free event for POD members who are interested in podcasting and interested in creating content for THIS podcast. Bonnie Stachowiak, Catherine Ross, and Siobhan McHugh will “headline” the program and participants will have the opportunity to collaborate in small groups to create an episode of Centering Centers that will air in 2023. The event will be held on Zoom on December 1st, 1 - 3pm EST. 

To register for PODFEST go to aub.ie/podfest22