ON Cultivating Student Engagement in Higher Ed

I’m Kathryn Berkow and I’d like to introduce the second season of “ON” a podcast about cultivating student engagement in higher ed. This podcast celebrates that  “ON” feeling when students are learning in your classroom and the material is engaging, inclusive, and effective. 

This season starts on September 13th and includes interviews with some of my role models for course excellence, a live panel event on small teaching practices that can increase engagement, and rebroadcasts of my interviews on one of my favorite higher ed podcasts, Tea for Teaching. I hope you enjoy the variety of discussions, all aimed at engaging our students, including topics like cultivating community, challenging our understanding of the status quo, and focusing on the meaning of our work. 

If you’re interested in student engagement in higher ed, please subscribe to the podcast to let me know you want to hear more! If there’s interest, I’ll keep developing this platform for sharing engagement ideas from the brilliant faculty members around me. 

Thanks for listening!

A panel of University of Delaware students joins the podcast to discuss what's going well and how we can improve our courses as we move toward another semester of uncertainty and into the future; Shivani, Cara, and Ryan share their dos and don'ts for course design and student engagement as we look forward to 2021

Dr. Ellen Monk, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss the impact of dividing a large class session into smaller group meetings for asking and answering questions, working on practice exercises, and fostering a stronger sense of community in a virtual setting

Dr. Laura Gasiorowski, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss the creative exercises she uses to engage her students physically and mentally in on-campus classes and in her virtual classroom as well

Dr. Chanele Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss how she's implemented a new time management lesson for her students and how it makes space for our students' (and our own!) whole selves in the classroom

Dr. Mark Serva, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss Specifications Grading and how it has impacted students' motivation in his classes

Paige Gee, Instructor of Accounting at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss her strategies for engaging students during live sessions while remote teaching and the ways remote teaching has changed her plans for classroom engagement going forward

Erin Sicuranza, IT Project Leader and Course Designer at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss high impact practices for online course design and the elements of remote teaching that will impact our teaching in the future

I’m Katy Berkow and this is ON: a podcast about cultivating student engagement in higher ed. Instructors are always striving for those magic moments in the classroom when everything is just “ON”. More than ever, we can benefit from sharing the strategies that reach our students and evaluate learning most inclusively and effectively. This podcast features higher ed faculty and course designers using creative approaches to enhance students’ learning experiences and turn engagement “ON”. With new episodes weekly starting November 9, I hope you'll stay tuned for great ideas from a variety of disciplines!