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About the guests

Monica Turchyn holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Illinois and served as instructional staff for courses at the College of Applied Health Sciences.

Bob Dignan is an Associate Director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning.

Episode Summary

The high cost of textbooks is one of the factors that affects student learning outcomes and student success. Students avoid certain classes, drop a class, or do poorly when they cannot afford the text for a course. Monica shares her academic journey out and back to higher ed; revealing the many barriers removed by having an OER in her coursework! All this (and more!) OER activity is supported by the Open Textbook Incentive Program at the University Library. Check out their webpage for details on funding applications and additional examples.

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About the guests

Christy Bazan is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology of the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois. She is among the authors of the Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook Drug Use and Misuse: A Community Health Perspective.

Robert Baird is a Sr. Associate Director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning.

Episode Summary

The high cost of textbooks is one of the factors that affects student learning outcomes and student success. Students avoid certain classes, drop a class, or do poorly when they cannot afford the text for a course. Learn a bit about one instructor's journey creating an OER at Illinois, and why she's working on her second! All this (and more!) OER activity is supported by the Open Textbook Incentive Program at the University Library. Check out their webpage for details on funding applications and additional examples.

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 5 

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About the guests 

Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is also the Director of Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories 

 

Lucas Anderson is a Specialist in Education at CITL. Check out his blog where he writes about developing a teaching philosophy statement and other teaching topics. 

Episode Summary 

Who says engineers can’t have pizazz?! Ether through sheer silliness or deeply rooted pedagogy (or both – or neither!), Blake Johnson made low effort decisions to infuse some style into the pressure cooker situation of converting engineering lab courses into an online modality within a week to accommodate pandemic response in March 2020. Here’s a link to a sample of these lab videos sent to students in lieu of them being in the facility: Stylized Remote Lab Procedures Example - ME 320 Lab 5. 

 

Listen to his reflections on the process of converting labs under impossible circumstances all while maintaining his fun - yet rigorous - teaching affect. 

 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 4 

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About the guests 

Daniel J. Simons is a Professor in Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

 

Emelie Mies is a Technology Support Specialist at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at UIUC. 

 

Episode Summary 

Thinking about one’s thinking is a rather unintuitive and fraught process, especially if we’re in a learner/student context! But this conversation, and Prof. Dan Simons research, might be a big help to jumpstarting that metacognition analysis. Hope you enjoy some connections between scam artists, signal to noise, pattern bias, incentive structures and a student’s journey through higher education. 

 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 3 

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About the guests 

Christine Shenouda is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). 

 

Liam Moran is a Systems Specialist in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at UIUC. 

Episode Summary 

These days, higher ed institutions and whole degree programs are thinking about their strategy for building online offerings. We invited someone who’s been deliberately building online offerings at a department level since well before our global experiment with online ed. Christine shares some of their story from Psychology, and also their rationale behind those choices. 

 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 2 

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About the guests 

Soo Yeun-Lee is a Professor in and the School Director of the School of Food Sciences at Washington State University. 

 

Cheelan Bo-Linn is a Senior Specialist in Education at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at UIUC. 

 

Episode Summary 

Flipping the classroom is nothing new. We wont win any awards with this conversation about what’s become a tried and true method for increasing engagement and improving learning outcomes for certain college curricula. But... hearing Soo’s purpose, methodology and advice to others is sure worth a listen! If you want to reprioritize your course to better prepare your students for life beyond school (where timed exams rarely exist and team-based projects are everywhere), then we think you’ll get lots out of this conversation! 

 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 1 

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About the guests 

Victoria T. Fields is a Doctoral Student and Instructor of Record in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). 

 

Nicole A. Cox was a PhD student at UIUC and a CITL Graduate Affiliate. She’s now Faculty at Amhust College. 

Episode Summary 

Graduate students with higher ed teaching experience, Victoria Fields and Nicole Cox, share their stories and strategies from time in roles of an Instructor at UIUC. They connect much of their work to the Engaged Pedagogy of bell hooks, and it’s a helpful and hopeful conversation about connecting and leading classrooms spaces. Victoria holds credit for our inaugural email to the podcast, so do consider reaching out! 

 

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Episode Summary

Data Science Discovery website. 

 

Microproject created for the podcast listeners! Data Science with Python for beginners in under an hour!

Professors Karle and Wade spin their tale of rapid course development, co-teaching, iterative course design, big ideas with manageable steps, and tearing down the garden walls. The project in discussion, Data Science Discovery, is available on the open internet and ready for you to explore!

We referenced the 2022 Faculty Retreat and more info is here: https://facultyretreat.citl.illinois.edu/

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About the guests

Karle Flanagan is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science in the Grainger College of Engineering at The University of Illinois (UIUC).

Eric Schumacher the Media Production Coordinator at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning. 

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About the guests 

Sarah Rose Cavanagh is a psychologist, professor, and Senior Associate Director for Teaching and Learning at Simmons University, where she teaches classes on affective science and mental health, researches the intersections of emotion, motivation, and learning, and provides educational development for faculty. 

 

Tyler Schanck is an Instructional Media Producer at CITL. 

 

Episode Summary 

Sarah Rose Cavanagh (Simmons University) was the Keynote speaker at the 2022 Reimagining the Classroom Symposium. From the Symposium website: As we emerge from the pandemic it’s time to celebrate our progress and look optimistically toward the future as we try to discern the evolving needs of faculty, students, and staff. Plans that are on the drawing table today will become the classrooms of tomorrow. Let's work together to build teaching and learning spaces that our faculty and students need to succeed. 

 

The Reimagining the Classroom Symposium has been evolving from the first Flexible Learning Summit in 2013 to the first virtual Breaking New Ground webinar in 2021, but our mission remains the same: to support the Strategic 150 goal of promoting transformative learning experiences for our students by exploring the complex relationships between physical classrooms, teaching pedagogies, and emerging technologies. 

 

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About the guests 

D. Fairchild Ruggles is the Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture and Professor teaching in that Department, which is in the College of Fine and Applied Arts.  

 

Ava Wolf is an assistant director at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning. 

 

Episode Summary 

Prof Ruggles teaches about architecture and landscapes in the Islamic world, the Mediterranean, and South Asia. She also teaches across three levels of instruction on our campus; undergraduate, graduate and doctoral. Ava Wolf and Bob Dignan at CITL sit down with Dede to explore some guiding thoughts on teaching history, especially teaching with and through primary sources. In the age of the meme, digital native students are quick to assemble and remix media, but how might teachers help translate those energies into the academic traditions of critical analysis. And even further translate those skills and energies into perceptions of story all around us – even in architecture and landscape. 

 

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