Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed

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  • Changing Our Minds About Teaching

    Maha Bali, Robin DeRosa, and Mike Truong discuss changing our minds about teaching on episode 200 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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    Quotes from the episode

    I have learned that I don’t need to defend technology.

    —Mike Truong

    What happens if you structurally start to build [courses] around the real-world issues that students are bringing in?

    —Robin DeRosa

    In certain times of my life I think better in a synchronous way, talking to someone immediately. And other times I just need to step back and write.

    —Maha Bali

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    Resources Mentioned
    • AMICAL
    • Tiffany’s blog post
    • The Case for Inclusive Teaching by Kevin Gannon* (mentioned in our chat room, not on the episode)
    • An Affinity for Asynchronous Learning
    • Virtually Connecting
    • Kate Bowles
    • Soliya – Intercultural dialog
    • Chickering & Gamson’s Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
    • Just in time. Just enough. Just for me. Just do it. (APU’s/Mike’s approach to faculty development)
    • MAGNA Pubs 20 Minute Mentor Commons
    • The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ by Molly Worthen in The New York Times
    • Virtually Connecting
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      39 min
    • A Student’s Perspective, with Sierra Smith

      Sierra Smith shares a student’s perspective on episode 199 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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      Quotes from the episode

      College is a lot more traditional than I expected.

      —Sierra Smith

      I love a class that allows for natural interactions with other students.

      —Sierra Smith

      What you put into an experience is what you get out of it.

      —Sierra Smith

      I feel like it’s very non-productive when a professor comes in and they lecture for 50 minutes from paragraphs off a powerpoint.

      —Sierra Smith

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      Resources Mentioned
      • Quizlet
      • Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 1
      • Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 2
      • Episode 91: Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment
      • Teaching and Learning in Higher Education book series from West Virginia University Press: Edited by James M. Lang
      • Cochlear implant
      • Trint: Transcription Reinvented
      • Episode 110: Self-Regulated Learning and the Flipped Classroom with Robert Talbert
      • Episode 106: Undercover Professor with Mike Ross 
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        39 min
      • The intersections between play, games, and learning, with Nicholas Holt

        Nic Holt shares about the intersections between play, games, and learning on episode 198 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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        Quotes from the episode

        Always try to create those cross-silo engagements.

        —Nic Holt

        Before we can all learn together, we have to be nice and good to one another.

        —Nic Holt

        If you have a new piece of technology in your class … let everybody play with it.

        —Nic Holt

        To learn to take another person’s perspective is something that will transcend whatever content you’re trying to teach.

        —Nic Holt

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        Resources Mentioned
        • R.E.M 
        • Club Penguin
        • Dungeons and Dragons
        • World of Warcraft 
        • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
        • Autotelic – to do something for the love of it
        • Tiki-Toki
        • Bonnie Cramond
        • Leisure and Human Development by Douglas A. Kleiber and Francis A. McGuire
        • Wikipedia
        • Packback
        • Bonni’s never-used 7 Habits badges
        • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey*
        • Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois*
        • Bonni’s keynote at UGA 2017 Innovation in Teaching Conference
        • 2018 Innovation in Teaching Conference at University of Georgia’s College of Education on October 19
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          40 min
        • Interactivity and inclusivity can help close the achievement gap

          Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan describe how inclusivity can help close the achievement gap on episode 197 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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          Quotes from the episode

          How do I communicate that their work ethic was actually more important than innate ability?

          —Viji Sathy

          When I first started teaching, I thought the classroom had to look a certain way.

          —Kelly Hogan

          The attention span of a class goes down the larger the class size.

          —Kelly Hogan

          Making a mistake is a big part of learning.

          —Kelly Hogan

          The more you do it, the more you start to see opportunities for improvement.

          —Viji Sathy

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          Resources Mentioned
          • Course in Effective Teaching Practices
          • Why We’re Speaking Up About Inclusive Teaching Strategies on ACUE’s ‘Q’ Blog
          • www.inclusifiED.net
          • PollEverywhere
          • Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work? (Eddy & Hogan)
          • Classroom sound can be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses
          • SF State researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms
          • Loud and Clear: Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.
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            47 min
          • Reading as Collective Action, with Nicholas Hengen Fox

            Nicholas Hengen Fox shares about his book, Reading as Collective Action, on episode 196 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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            QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE

            Like a lot of faculty members and grad students, I have a lot of privilege. That shapes the way I see the world and interact with texts.

            —Nicholas Hengen Fox

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            Resources Mentioned
            • September 11 attacks
            • Sep 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
            • Grapes of Wrath* by John Steinbeck
            • Working class literature
            • The Theory of Communicative Action: Jurgen Habermas’s theory
            • 001: The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society*
            • Just Mercy* by Bryan Stevenson
            • Can the working-class novel exist today? Maybe by Nicholas Hengen Fox
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              32 min
            • Considering Open Education with an Interdisciplinary Lens, with Robin Derosa

               

              Robin DeRosa discusses considering open education with an interdisciplinary lens on episode 195 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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              Quotes from the episode

              How do we make higher education more accessible to learners by rethinking the structures of our programs?

              —Robin DeRosa

              It’s really about empowering learners.

              —Robin DeRosa

              Design structures that reflect the fact that universities are in the real world.

              —Robin DeRosa

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              Resources Mentioned
              • Robin’s posts about interdisciplinary studies
              • The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature
              • Episode 179 – Paul Blowers connects the Disneyland Legionnaires’ Disease to His Class
              • OER: Bigger Than Affordability
              • The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson*
              • Episode 169 – The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux with Cathy Davidson
              • Evergreen State College
              • Prescott College
              • Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, by Allen F. Repko, Rick Szostak, & Michele Phillips Buchberger
              • Ch. 18 Fruit: A Metaphor for Understanding Interdisciplinarity by Moti Nissani in Interdisciplinary Studies: A Connected Learning Approach
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                34 min
              • Interactive Theatre Enters the Classroom, with James Wilson

                James Wilson on episode 194 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast shares about Interactive Theatre in the classroom.

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                Quotes from the episode

                Humans are hardwired for learning by doing.

                —James Wilson

                Everybody in everyday life is an actor … it shouldn’t be deemed an untouchable art form.

                —James Wilson

                I haven’t come across a medium of teaching which attaches a higher state of emotion to learning experiences.

                —James Wilson

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                Resources Mentioned
                • Dementia Reconsidered: the Person Comes First by Tom Kitwood*
                • Choose Your Own Adventure Posts and Podcasts on Teaching in Higher Ed
                • Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
                • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande*
                • Episode 117 with Kerry Moore
                • Games for actors and non-actors by Augusto Boal
                • Article about our experience using Forum Theatre
                • Meetoo
                • Turning Technologies
                • Three filmed projects
                • Turning a crisis into an interactive drama: An introductory paper of a ‘clickers theatre’ in nurse education
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                  39 min
                • Diversity and Inclusion – How Does Higher Ed Rate?, with Amer Ahmed

                  Amer Ahmed shares how higher ed rates in diversity and inclusion on episode 193 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

                  Quotes from the episode

                  Are we healing when we’re in a constant state of frustration?

                  —Amer F. Ahmed

                  Getting people off the defensive is really important.

                  —Amer F. Ahmed

                  People don’t just snap their fingers … and then be a fundamentally different person.

                  —Amer F. Ahmed

                  The moment I stepped out of my home I was stepping into a different culture.

                  —Amer F. Ahmed

                  Resources Mentioned
                  • ACUE
                  • Classroom Diversity and Inclusive Pedagogy on ACUE’s Expert Series blog
                  • 30 min
                  • Using Data to Stimulate Student Learning, with Eric Loepp

                    Eric Loepp discusses how he uses data to stimulate student learning on episode 192 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

                    Resources Mentioned
                    • Beyond Polls: Using Science and Student Data to Stimulate Learning
                    • FiveThirtyEight
                    • New York Times
                    • Washington Post
                    • You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse During Obama’s Presidency
                    • Qualtrics
                    • Parks and Recreation
                    • 40 min
                    • Creating Immersive Learning Experiences in Online Courses, with Ric Montelongo

                      Ric Montelongo describes how he creates immersive learning experiences in online classes on episode 191 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

                      Quotes from the episode

                      If you experiment, look at what support your institution has to offer.

                      —Ric Montelongo

                      Technology isn’t limited to online classes.

                      —Ric Montelongo

                      Be very mindful of privacy — not everyone likes to be recorded.

                      —Ric Montelongo

                      Resources Mentioned
                      • Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob
                      • GoPro HERO6 Black*
                      • Roller Coaster Database
                      • Roller Coaster POV Ride GoPro Example
                      • Salsa, Soul, & Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age – Juana Bordas
                      • Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)
                      • Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
                      • SHSU Online
                      • SHSU Digital Education Summit
                      • Texas A&M University Galveston Campus & Hurricane Ike 2008
                      • Hurricane Harvey Blog post for ACPA 2018 Convention
                      • Virtual Reality – CBS This Morning
                      • Planet Money podcast
                      • Marketplace podcast
                      • VoiceThread
                      • 37 min

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