It is such a crucial part of what we do as professors… Getting students involved in discussions and helping to facilitate their learning.

Dr. Jay Howard joins me on this episode to talk about how to engage students in the classroom and online.

Engaging Your Students Face-to-Face and Online (July 2015) (Jossey-Bass)

The real norm is not that students have to pay attention. It’s that they have to pay civil attention.

When students feel you value them enough to try to learn their names, they’ll be much more forgiving of mistakes.

Attendance 2 app

Regardless of class size, there will be around five students who will become your dominant talkers who will account for 75-95% of student comments in the typical college class.

Bonni recommends: Michael hyatt’s ideal week blog post and template

Jay, author of Apostles of Rock, recommends: The Lost Dogs

Dr. Guy Trainin joins me for episode 22 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about using iPads and tablets in the classroom.

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Students voting to extend the class time? Professors reporting that students are doing the reading for the course without threats or other forms of coercion? Today, in episode 21, Dr. Mark Carnes joins me to talk role immersion games in the higher ed classroom.

Dr. Mark C. Carnes, Professor of History, Barnard College

Author of Minds on fire how role immersion games transform college, published by Harvard University Press

Your class was less boring than most.

You give up the control of knowing what the classroom is going to be like. Instead, you get the drama and, often, these moments of extraordinary student performances and transformations that leave you amazed.

Queen’s College class did the India Reacting class. High attendance. All focused on it.

While some skepticism is appropriate, our tried and true methods aren’t that fail safe.

Structure is different, because the “slacker’s” peers are counting on him/her.

They can’t hide out like they can in other classes.

Becoming someone different from who you are

Serial podcast (Bonni)

Google “Reacting to the Past” videos (Mark)

Reacting to the Past website

Reacting to the Past consortium

In this episode, Dave Stachowiak joins me to answer community questions.

Bonni gives an update on lessons from cheating lessons episode with James Lang

Gilbert asks:

How do I engage students in discussion boards?

A listener asks:

How do I take an in-person class and put it online?

A listener asks:

What do you elearning authoring systems do you recommend?

Lift app

The name of this app has since been changed to:

https://www.coach.me/

Post-it Plus app

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Catching a student cheating can evoke all sorts of feelings: frustration, disappointment, anger, ambivalence. In episode 19 of Teaching in Higher Ed, Dr. James M. Lang joins me to talk about lessons learned from cheating.

You’re the last thing on their mind. When a student is cheating… their cheating isn’t an assault on your and your values. – James M. Lang

[Cheating] is a long term and persistent problem in higher education. – James M. Lang

Bonni recommends: James Lang’s Fullbright Specialist Program and speaking

Jim recommends: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gives a TED Talk on Flow: The secret to happiness

Lessons for us in our lives, but also for how we approach our teaching

Thanks again to James Lang for joining us for this important dialog on Teaching in Higher Ed.

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