Bonni Stachowiak shares about retrieval practice tools on episode #127 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into our students’ heads. What if instead we focus on getting information out of our students’ heads?

Forgetting is the friend of learning.

As we use our memories, the things that we recall become more recallable.

Humorous note from Andrew, our podcast editor, to Bonni, that was too good not to share here: “That ‘get back up again’ song has got nothing on the original inspirational song“

Jackie and Rob Parke share about empathy toward greater inclusion on episode #126 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

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John Stewart shares how he uses Open Educational Resources (OER) in his teaching on episode 125 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Any time you’re doing experimental work, you can anticipate some of the problems, but not all of them.

Laziness at the faculty level hasn’t been invented recently.

It surprised me what amount of control of the course that faculty cede to the textbook industry.

Think about how you can take the time both for yourself and for your students to share what you’re doing.

Maha Bali talks about intercultural learning on episode 124 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

By spending a lot of time with people who are different than yourself, you get to know yourself even better.

When you leave your culture and go to live somewhere else it helps you question your values, what you take for granted, and your assumptions.

You need deep, sustained interaction with a person or a group of people to be able to understand their culture.

Yolanda Flores Niemann dialogs about being presumed incompetent in academia on episode #123 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

Only about 20% of faculty are people of color.

No matter how you think of yourself, you cease to be the independent scholar … and you become what the environment needs you to be because you are one of the few people of color.

We need to mentor women to not be afraid to negotiate.

The millennials are …  one of our most social-justice and equality-minded generations.

The responsibility for knowing about issues of race, class, and gender identity, and being able to mentor students around these issues, is a responsibility that needs to be shared.

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Keegan Long-Wheeler talks about game-based learning on episode 122 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

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Bonnie Stewart talks about networked pedagogy on episode #121 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

Networks are a foundational structure of human experience.

Recognizing that there is a distinction between the personal and the private can be encouraging for people who may feel uncomfortable with the whole idea of sharing.

Identity is something that we’re always curating.

I realized that I’ve been curating my identity since long before there was the internet … with the things that I save.

Dr. Robert Talbert talks about how to get more meaningful work done on episode 120 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

90% of the emails I get in my inbox are not actionable.

The human brain is fantastic for processing information but it’s terrible for storing information.

Sometimes the busyness we have is entirely self-inflicted; we work hard because we’re disorganized.

Say yes to the things that matter and say no to everything else.

Annemarie Perez shares about bridging the culture gap in the classroom and other broad thoughts about cultural competence on episode 119 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

Mike Wesch describes his becoming a learner and what it taught him about teaching on episode 118 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

I’ve always picked things that are really hard and bring out fears inside me.

Students get out of it whatever they put into it.

I take the philosophy that grading can play different roles depending on the course.

What matters when students graduate is how they’ve changed, not just their GPA.

When I started teaching in my late 20s, it was really easy to relate to students. As I was in my late 30s, it was much more difficult.

Life is too short to not experiment.