This episode of HybridPod explores the idea of collaboration — how it works, what it is, and how we can facilitate it in our classes.

New technology may make it too easy for us to focus on novelty, not on implications, in our digital pedagogy. What are risks & benefits of tech in class?

Have we moved from analogue to digital teaching? We talk about transitioning learning into today’s technological era — about digital pedagogy.

This episode explores the assertion that “play is serious business" and tests the ways in which it can be applied to today’s educational environments.

Kris Shaffer and Asao Inoue discuss generous ways to assess student work, and we’ll hear from Lee Skallerup Bessette to consider institutional assessment, empathy, and student needs.

Common systems that check finished work for signs of plagiarism turn it into a punitive situation, rather than a teaching opportunity. That’s the big difference between the student experience of plagiarism and the academic understanding of it. What if we looked at citation as a compassionate authorial act? Could we situate quoting and referencing as an act of academic kindness?

Much of the conversation about modern education discusses what we as teachers can sayor do within our classrooms. Relatively little attention is paid to what we can hear from our students. In this episode, we’ll explore some of the benefits we can get, and improvements we can make, if we essentially talk less and listen more.