Episodes

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Bonni Stachowiak shares analog and digital ways to engage learners, from sorting exercises to gallery walks, on episode 639 of Teaching in Higher Ed.

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Beth Cougler Blom on how teaching and facilitation skills are built in life’s ordinary moments — noticing, saying hello first, and staying curious. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode When you love what you do, you see it everywhere. -Beth Cougler Blom I’m here in Canada, and I’m on the West Coast, and there’s so many people learning here all the time about how to be living and working in a diverse community. -Beth Cougler Blom If we hone our noticing skills, then we ...

Bethany Morrison shares civic professionalism and how disciplinary identity shapes civic discourse on episode 632 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Democracy needs to be born every generation. We can’t just assume it… Every generation, we have to kind of rebirth it, and it has to happen in our schools. -Bethany Morrison One of the principles that we often recommend is setting some community discussion guidelines, talking together ...

Jeff Kim shares how faculty can use video in our teaching and make it sustainable on episode 631 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode You raise what you praise. So through these vlogs, you’ll see me not complaining, but actually praising a lot. -Jeff Kim Sometimes people can feel a little bit wary about being on social media; they know that the way that I’m going to produce the video is going to be in such a way that’s uplifting. -J...

Anna Mills shares Peer and AI Review and Reflection, plus a layered approach to writing feedback on episode 630 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode My sense of the value of feedback has not changed. It’s more important than ever, more meaningful than ever, when we do have that connection through words. -Anna Mills I think overall I’ve advocated for more sort of technical support for transparency about what is AI and what is not. -A...

Luke Green uses the Santa Claus story to rethink what grades measure and the case for ungrading on episode 629 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Each student at some point throughout their academic career is going to receive a grade, receive some sort of an assessment that is going to fundamentally alter how they feel about the classroom. -Luke Green The narrative that we sell to our kids is that these gifts are earned. The metric...

Remi Kalir shares the Fair Feedback Project for addressing bias in student evaluations on episode 628 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode If you actually have students write about affirming values as a kind of open free write before they complete an evaluation of teaching, it actually has been shown to mitigate bias. -Remi Kalir There are many people who are experiencing the effects of these structural patterns of bias who don’t loo...

Janice McCabe shares her research on campus loneliness and college friendship networks on episode 627 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode The previous surgeon general, among others, have declared a loneliness crisis facing the United States, and, in fact, the highest rates are among young adults. -Janice McCabe Many people that I interviewed told me how they felt like everyone else either had more friends than them, had better frien...

Jeanie Tietjen unpacks trauma-informed practices in higher ed and why naming itself is a form of teaching on episode 626 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Naming goes so far back in, even just in literary terms, the importance of naming. -Jeanie Tietjen There is still a very nascent and as yet relatively unarticulated understanding of how profoundly trauma, adversity, and violence adversely affect teaching and learning. -Jeanie T...

Malini Johar Schueller unpacks critical race reading and the role of discomfort in the classroom on episode 625 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Racism is a permanent structural feature of American society, and law alone, as now we have it, cannot deal with racism because racism is also part of law. -Malini Johar Schueller Critical race reading takes off from that, and it asks, is there a way of reading… that can awaken us to que...

Denise Maduli-Williams shares how to engage learners in online courses on episode 624 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode The very first thing I saw was the online instructor posting this video where she was roller skating in this roller Derby rink and welcoming us online, and that just changed everything for me. -Denise Maduli-Williams When we design with accessibility in mind, we support everyone, all students. -Denise Maduli-Wil...

Rebecca Fordon unpacks vibe coding and the eight AI teaching tools she built in a single semester on episode 623 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Vibe coding, I think of being able to describe the kind of application or website that you want in just words, a narrative, rather than having to code it, knowing coding language. -Rebecca Fordon I think the easiest place to start is in ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Claude Code. -Rebecca Ford...

Jennifer Wallace shares about her book, Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose on episode 622 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Mattering says you belong at the table, but it goes even further, and it says you would be missed if you weren’t here. You are adding value, and we would notice if you weren’t here. -Jennifer Wallace We have so much input and so much output being demanded of us today that often we ...

David Perry shares about his new book, The Public Scholar, on episode 621 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Teaching is the most important form of public engagement that any of us do. -David Perry If we are really practiced at teaching, and as we develop our skills as teachers, those are the skills that can also take us into other spaces outside of the classroom. -David Perry Academia is structured around all kinds of failure. O...