Ever wonder if a university could build a free online simulation-based active learning platform that defied conventional wisdom of creating innovations? Meet Keith Sewell and Keenan Beaumont from Monash University's Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences who helped save many experiential learning programs during the pandemic with MyDispense. This episode will give you insight on how even the biggest innovations can be initially messy, completely sharable, and provide high-quality learning experiences for our students.

Starting off short and sweet to kick off the jumpstart of the Active Learning Podcast! Doing a quick shoutout to all those who made education possible throughout the pandemic!

Continuing the mission of talking active learning in instructional design, Michael discusses how siloing can hurt faculty members from collaborating with each other. He calls for utilizing intentional faculty development to un-silo academic departments to create innovative approaches to educating students in the classroom.

This podcast goes into how active learning challenges the status quo of assessing student performance in higher education. The goal of this episode is to start conversations with your colleagues about what it means to be successful in an active learning environment.

We will be talking about a subtopic of what I think contributes to the devaluation of higher education. This podcast aims to spark a conversation of whats faculty life after powerpoint. I also call on anyone who'd like to share their active learning experiences. Hit me up at [email protected]

This episode we explore our undiagnosed addiction to the classroom podium. We also take a brief history lesson of the projector and where has it taken us since the Late 1800s. We lastly try to discover how active learning classrooms can help us out of the constraints of the old classroom technologies.

This episode looks at the potential key stakeholders you may want to consult with when building a new active learning classroom. This is in light of an article I wrote in the Keep Learning Online Publication entitled "Organized Chaos: How Active Learning Impacts Organizational Structures in Higher Education."

This episode will focus on the student perspective. We will have a special guest from the student intern at USC-Upstate that has been assisting on transcribing the student focus groups. Listen in to receive tips and tricks of what students may expect and experience when in an active learning classroom.

This is the first podcast of the Active Learning Podcast! This is a podcast designed for conversations, issues, and challenges relating to active learning in higher education. This episode, we discuss the authenticity of teaching and meeting students where they are. When looking at making this better, we tie this into how the active learning classroom can help.