Teaching in Higher Ed

Derek Bruff shares about curation, collections, and collaboration and the insights he’s gained from UVA’s Teaching Hub on episode 543 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We’re working with a ton of curators who have some expertise in an aspect of teaching and learning.

The more diverse voices we have in it, the more powerful the teaching hub will be.

Teaching is an ongoing creative process.

Rob Morgan shares how creativity may just save us all on episode 542 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We have entire sections on collaboration, and failure, and empathy, and the importance of play.

AI cannot replace the skills of dexterity, collaboration, and creativity.

Jeff Hittenberger discusses love, wisdom, and human flourishing in education on episode 541 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Curiosity isn’t just about finding answers; it’s about opening up to understand other perspectives.

Nurturing environments where students feel valued and guided towards their fullest potential can transform educational experiences.

Glen Warren answers the question: what’s love got to do with learning? on episode 540 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

“What matters to you matters.” – Glen Warren

“Begin with the endless in mind.” – Glen Warren

Teresa Thompson discusses joyful connections through intentional teaching practices on episode 539 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I’ve had students share with me in the past that they were considering dropping the class, and then they got that welcome email, and they thought, okay, this time, it’s going to be different.

My syllabus was all Barbie themed. In the semester before that, it was Pokemon themed. Semester before that was Stranger Things themed.

I don’t want their first impression of me to be me quickly cleaning the board or freaking out because I can’t find a whiteboard marker that works. I want them to see me calm and ready and happy to greet them as they walk in.

We have to recognize that our students have a lot going on. Sometimes, even despite their best intention, they may not be able to be a 100% attentive in our classroom.

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni share lessons from the Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan on episode 538 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I had some small goals for the Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan, and they were all surpassed.

Dan Levy and Angela Pérez share about Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT on episode 538 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

It’s very easy to be overwhelmed right now with AI.

AI has infinite patience.

ChatGPT is amazing for generating 10 topic ideas to get inspired.

If you know how to prompt Chat GPT, you know how to create a customized bot.

You can think of the teacher being the designer of the feedback rather than the giver of the feedback.

I can ask the bot questions that I would be embarrassed to ask my instructor.

John Warner explores stressing pedagogical principles over AI promises on episode 536 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Once they’ve done the writing or as even as they’re doing the writing, they’re reflecting on their own metacognitive understanding of their own practices.

While you are in the act of writing, you are processing your own idea.

Andrew Cross and Alyshahn Kara-Virani share about creating interactive experiences and shaping the future of teaching on episode 535 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

A lot of play science comes down to being a safe space to learn from each other, to see how people respond to what you put out there in the world without it being this critical life or death situation.

People disproportionately remember experiences based on both the peaks and the valleys, and then also the ending experience.

Encourage students to freely explore the content on their own. Sometimes that’s content, sometimes it’s a physical space. Turn them loose to go off and find something that they find interesting, a little bit of free choice learning.

Status quo is our enemy too often.

Josh Eyler helps us cultivate hope and action beyond grades on episode 534 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.

We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.

We’re in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.