Teaching in Higher Ed

Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout.

Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education.

We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about.

There is a stigma of talking about burnout.

Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic.

Perfection is a comparison disease.

We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect.

Higher ed will take as much as you give it.

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Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

People are grieving and hurting.

Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.

Language is power.

We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.

Educational developers are caregivers.

The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.

People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.

We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.

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Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.

Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.

We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.

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Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

You have to find and develop your personality.

I like to model being imperfect.

For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.

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Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Annotation is all around us.

Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator.

Annotation provides information.

This is an act of public pedagogy.

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Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Get rid of the competition and become a team player.

Assume good intentions.

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Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.

Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex.

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Josh Eyler discusses the problem with grades on episode 401 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.

The grades are not the end of the story. They are not even the bulk of your story. They are a chapter of your story.

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Jeff Hittenberger helps Bonni culminate her 400th episode by talking about the heart of a teacher on episode 400 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I had some assumptions coming into teaching

I never knew how much my textbooks cost.

I care about other people and that I like to make meaningful progress towards a goal, I try to celebrate those parts of me.

I think we are all just continually trying to figure stuff out. Nobody really has it all together.

An episode has aired every single week since June of 2014. That is a kind of discipline I feel grateful for.

I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.

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Bonni Stachowiak shares some satire from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on episode 399 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.

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