Teaching in Higher Ed

Doug Leigh on helping graduate students come up with interesting research topics.

Dr. Doug Leigh earned his PhD in instructional systems from Florida State University, where he served as a technical director of projects with various local, state, and federal agencies. His current research, publication, and lecture interests concern cause analysis, organizational trust, leadership visions, and dispute resolution. He is coeditor of The Handbook of Selecting and Implementing Performance Interventions (Wiley, 2010) and coauthor of The Assessment Book (HRD Press, 2008), Strategic Planning for Success (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and Useful Educational Results (Proactive Publishing, 2001).

Leigh served on a two-year special assignment to the National Science Foundation, is two-time chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Needs Assessment Topic Interest Group, and past editor-in-chief of the International Society for Performance Improvement’s (ISPI) monthly professional journal, Performance Improvement. A lifetime member of ISPI, he is also a member of the editorial board for its peer-reviewed journal, Performance Improvement Quarterly. More

Some of the differences between doctoral work and master’s work have to do with the amount of original data collection.

I try to set up the expectation that when a dissertation chair is doing a good job, they’re giving a lot of feedback, and that may involve several iterations of drafting.

Though we call them defenses, they’re not interrogations. They’re not about getting lined up to be battered with questions to prove your worth before a student is allowed into the club.

Students who can avoid just reaffirming what’s already known are able to position themselves to do research that sticks with them as a passion.

Doug also shares his reworking of Davis’s index that he developed for his students, along with representative examples …

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Tim Clydesdale talks about how we can all better support our students in navigating college and beyond by talking about vocation.

[Vocation] is about the type of life you want to lead and the type of person you want to be.

It may be that the broader sense of who you are isn’t being fully expressed in your work but it’s being expressed in many other places: in your volunteer work, or your care for a family member.

Vocation is a much better way to talk to students [than career] because it captures much more of the breadth of life as it’s really lived.

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Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students.

We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility.

One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students.

Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made was we just took our existing structure and placed it on any new program.

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Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical considerations of using Turnitin and other automatic plagiarism checkers.

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Stephanie Vie researches the construction of digital identities in social media spaces  as well as critical approaches to composing technologies such as plagiarism detection services. Her research has appeared in First Monday; Computers and Composition; Computers and Composition Online; Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; and The Community Literacy Journal.

She is a Reviews Section Co-editor with Kairos; a Project Director with the Computers and Composition Digital Press; and an editorial board member of the undergraduate research journal Young Scholars in Writing.

Her doctorate from the University of Arizona (2007) is in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, and her dissertation, “Engaging Others in Online Social Networking Sites: Rhetorical Practices in MySpace and Facebook,” examined the use of privacy settings in these sites within a Foucauldian framework. More

The more moments you can take from an active, engaged classroom and bring them into your assignments, that’s going to significantly help reduce plagiarism.

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On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli about developing curriculum for international higher education in the 21st Century.

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Mary Gene is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary in Quatar. More

I create a situation where I ask my students to think about things from multiple perspectives, but also allow their voices to be honored.

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