Episodes

On this week’s episode, James Lang shares about his book: Small Teaching [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes What I started to notice was that the coaches who paid attention to these little things, and focused on small fundamentals, tended to do a lot better than the teams that didn’t. —James Lang I’m a big believer in the opening and closing minutes of class … I think those are really ripe opportunities for small teaching. —James Lang I try to do framing activities to help the student...

On this week’s episode, I share my experiences with “choose your own adventure” assessments. Background on choose your own adventure assessments: TIHE Episode 58: Universal design for learning What is it? TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 1) TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 2) Resources App: Scannable* by Evernote Recommendation Peter Felten (@pfeltenNC) from the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University shared on Twitter: Scholarship o...

On this week’s episode, Todd Zakrajsek and I discuss our key take-aways from the 2016 Lilly Conference. Guest: Todd Zakrajsek Conference Director, Lilly Conferences California Twitter: @ToddZakrajsek www.lillyconferences.com Dr. Todd Zakrajsek, Ph.D., is the former Executive Director of the Academy of Educators in the School of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Zakrajsek is the immediate past Executive Director of the Center for ...

On today’s show, Betsy Barre joins me to share about the research on course evaluations. Guest: Betsy Barre Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University After making the move to Rice in 2012, she was able to pursue her interest in undergraduate pedagogy by working with students and faculty in Rice’s newly developed Program in Writing and Communication. In this role, she taught a series of disciplinary-based first-year seminars and contributed to the PWC’s facult...

On this week’s episode, Dave and I share our top five gadgets for teaching. Guest: Dave Stachowiak Bonni’s twitter: @bonni208 Dave’s twitter: @davestachowiak 1. Wireless presentation Remote Commonly referred to as a “wireless presenter”* Logitech remotes* are reliable and fairly inexpensive Video Downloader 2. iPad Pro iPad Pro specs iPad Pro on Amazon* iPad pro case from Sena 3. Apple Pencil Apple Pencil 4. Apple Watch use as a non-distracting notifier use as a timer can seamlessl...

On today’s episode, I talk with Sean Michael Morris about what the best digital teachers do. Sean Michael Morris, Digital Teacher and Pedagogue www.seanmichaelmorris.com Twitter: @slamteacher Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy is founded in...

Bonni shares strategies to help “get it together” during stressful times of the semester. Quotes Never succumb to the temptation to say you don’t have enough time to stop. —Bonni Stachowiak Listening might be the most important part of our jobs. —Bonni Stachowiak Sometimes we’re so worried about entertaining our students that we miss the opportunities for them to have creative insights of their own. —Bonni Stachowiak Celebration. Celebrate what you are doing. Song: Celebration by Kool ...

In today’s episode, Dr. Bill Robertson introduces us to “action science” and the ways he is making his teaching relevant, creating opportunities for the most active kind of learning I can imagine. Guest: Bill Robertson Dr. Skateboard Bill has a Ph.D. in Education and has been a skateboarder for over thirty-five years. He has done hundreds of demonstrations nationally and internationally in festivals, events and in academic settings. Bill has been an educator for over twenty years. His academ...

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 Interventi...

Tim Clydesdale talks about how we can all better support our students in navigating college and beyond by talking about vocation. Quotes [Vocation] is about the type of life you want to lead and the type of person you want to be. —Tim Clydesdale 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. —Tim Clydesdale Vocation is a much better way to talk ...

Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students. Quotes 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. -Doug Grove One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all students. -Doug Grove Every program is a little different. One of the bigger mistakes we’ve made w...

Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical considerations of using Turnitin and other automatic plagiarism checkers. Guest: Stephanie Vie twitter: @digiret email: Stephanie.Vie@ucf.edu Academia: https://ucf.academia.edu/StephanieVie 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 Com...

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli about developing curriculum for international higher education in the 21st Century. Guest: Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli Author, The Balancing Act: International Higher Education in the 21st Century* LinkedIn Book on Amazon* Mary Gene is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary in Quatar. More Quote: I create a situation where I ask my students to think about things from multipl...

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Robin Paige about the potential impact of stereotype threat inside and outside of our classrooms. Quote When dealing with stereotypes, one of the things we can do on our campuses or in our classrooms is create a space of accountability but without saying “You’re a bad person for thinking that.” —Robin Paige Resources Academic Paper by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson: Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans Recommenda...

Today on episode #078 of Teaching in Higher Ed: The power of checklists Book: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything–a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps–the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are...

Today I welcome to the show Dr. Terese Huston to talk about teaching what you don’t know. Guest: Therese Huston Faculty Development Consultant, Seattle University Author: Teaching What You Don’t Know Seattle University faculty page: here Personal page: www.theresehustonauthor.com Twitter: @ThereseHuston Therese Huston received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She was also awarded a prestigious post-doctoral fellows...

In today’s episode, Doug McKee joins me to share about online courses. His Introduction to Econometrics class is taught about as close to an in-person as you can get, but without being bound by geographic barriers. Guest: Doug McKee Associate Chair and Senior Lecturer of Economics at Yale http://economics.yale.edu/people/douglas-mckee Website: http://dougmckee.net/ Teach Better blog and podcast: http://teachbetter.co/ Personal Blog: www.highvariance.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/TeachBe...

On today’s episode, ten prior guests, as well as Dave and I, come together to celebrate 75 episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed. We look back at episodes that have had a big impact on us, take a listener question, and make recommendations. Guests: 1) Sandie Morgan The Eight Second Rule – Wait eight seconds to give students a change to respond https://teachinginhighered.com/6 2) Michelle Miller Rebecca Campbell’s – Don’t refer to students as children https://teachinginhighered.com/62 3) Scott ...

Podcast Notes On today’s show, Dr. Kris Shaffer talks about two topics: public scholarship and student privacy. Guest: Kris Shaffer Website: kris.shaffermusic.com Twitter: @krisshaffer GitHub: kshaffer We don’t have a nice, fuzzy boundary between completely private and completely public like we used to. —Kris Shaffer We don’t advance human knowledge by publishing something and putting it inside a fence and making it hard to get. —Kris Shaffer Social media is about more than just project...

Jim Sibley shares about Team-based Learning. Podcast Notes Team-based learning has come up a few times on the show previously (Dr. Chrissy Spencer in Episode 25). Today, however, we dive deep into this teaching approach and discover powerful ways to engage students with Dr. Jim Sibley. Guest: Jim Sibley Jim Sibley is Director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Science at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. As a faculty developer, he has l...

Robert Bjork on using cognitive psychology to enhance learning. PODCAST NOTES Guest: Dr. Robert Bjork Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA Learning and memory; the science of learning in the practice of teaching. The Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab Common misperceptions Belief that we work something like a man made recording device. In almost every critical way, we differ from any such device.” – Robert Bjork How can it be that we have all these years of learning things and ...

Derek Bruff gives his unique take on the flipped classroom… what to have the students do before they enter the classroom and what to do once they get there. PODCAST NOTES Guest: Dr. Derek Bruff On Twitter His blog Ph.D., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2003 Director, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, November 2011 to present Bruff, D. (2015). An indirect journey to indirect impact: From math major to teaching center director. In Rogers, K., & Croxall, B. (Eds.), #Alt-Academy....

Amy Collier joins me to talk about not yet-ness, geekiness, Jazzercise, Stevie Ray Vaughan, teaching, and learning. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Amy Collier Amy’s blog Connect with Amy on Twitter Amy admits to some shenanigans Stevie Ray Vaughan sings Mary Had a Little Lamb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGphy7XeZk The great thing about Lego is that it gives kids these tools and they don’t have to be built a certain way.” – Amy Collier Vaughn builds Lego with instructions https://www.yout...

Meg Urry shares approaches we can use to help our students correct inaccurate mental models and grasp complex information. PODCAST NOTES: Correcting inaccurate mental models Guest: Dr. Meg Urry Connect with Meg on Twitter Interest in science At some moment it clicked and I understood what it meant. Not only was that the moment that I started to like physics, but also the moment I realized everybody can learn physics if they get this key that unlocks the door. You don’t want to leave them in...