Episodes

Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh share about teaching, learning, and the lessons of grief on episode 596 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Take two deep breaths. -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh None of the books that I researched on grief actually defined grief. It’s like they just assumed you knew what it was because it’s such a universal experience, but it’s not universally experienced by everybody in the same way. -Christy Albright Anticipatory grief is wh...

Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern share about their book, Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University on episode 595 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We advise lots of different ways of rethinking our relationship with work in the book. -Roberta Hawkins You can’t solve institutional problems with individual sacrifices. -Leslie Kern We are not cogs in an institutional machine. -Roberta Hawkins One of the ch...

Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni in remembering Ken Bain on episode 594 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world. -Bonni Stachowiak While I didn’t ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I’m so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he’s inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversat...

Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I’m here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game. -Carter Moulton I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these mora...

Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people’s motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them. -Barbara Oakley Rea...

Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There’s a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class. -Danny Oppenheimer You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they at...

Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems. -Mike Caulfield AI doesn’t naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It’s a little bit of a bolt on afterthought. -Mike Caulfield Searching for information is a j...

The Richness of Podcasting in Higher Education, with Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd. Quotes from the episode There’s so many different ways to capture people’s imagination through an audio feed. -Dom Conroy When we’re creating podcasts, we are putting ourselves on the line. -Dom Conroy Education is a relational experience. -Warren Kidd The act of teaching is reflective and reflexive. -Warren Kidd Resources Using Podcasts to Cultivate Learner–Teacher Rapport in Higher Education Settings, b...

Emily Pitts Donahoe shares what we can learn about grades from an “emerging failure” on episode 588 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode They introduced a framework that attempts to identify the common features of alternative grading for growth systems that are meant to prioritize student growth and student learning over just grades and performance. -Emily Donahoe Those four pillars are marks that indicate progress, reattempts without penalty, clearly defined standar...

M. C. Flux uncovers lessons for video creation from what he calls layered learning on episode 587 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I’ve also started creating these little quiz questions in them, but they’re not hard. They’re just to keep their attention going. -M. C. Flux Many students seem to enjoy this and actually learn well from it, so I keep doing it. -M. C. Flux I think these students struggle so much with attention that ...

Seth Offenbach shares about his article, Kindness and Community in an Online Asynchronous Classroom, on episode 586 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I had to recognize the reality that my classroom was never going to be the number one priority for people during the pandemic. -Seth Offenbach When we teach, why not be kind? -Seth Offenbach My goal is to challenge my students intellectually. My goal is not to stress them out. -Se...

Bryan Dewsbury helps us explore what socially just teaching might look like across disciplines on episode 585 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I am not interested in being in a war with AI. I’m not trying to be a faculty detective to see who’s using ChatGPT or not, I didn’t sign up for that work. -Bryan Dewsbury I’m not your enemy. I’m not against you. I’m rooting for you every single day. I really mean that. -Bryan Dewsbury Th...

Danny Liu shares a different way to think about AI and assessment on episode 584 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Our students are presented with this massive array of things they could choose from. They may not know the right things to choose or the best things to choose. And our role as educators is to kind of guide them in trying to find the most healthy options from the menu to choose from. -Danny Liu People want to give thei...

James Lang shares about his latest book, Write Like You Teach, on episode 583 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Answers on their own are not interesting. They become interesting when we know the questions behind them. -James Lang When you take a reader on a journey, as the reader works through an essay or book that you’ve written, they spend a lot of time with you. -James Lang Be attentive to the person that you are on the page ...

Adriana Aldana shares about Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance on episode 582 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout. -Adriana Aldana Their voice really comes through in the letter format in ways that I don’t see in other forms of writing. I encourage them to loosen up a little bit with what they think ...

Alexandra (Ana) Kogl shares about her chaper in Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 581 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I didn’t expect to find joy in the classroom when I started teaching political science 20 years ago. -Alexandra (Ana) Kogl Joy isn’t something that we can coerce out of students. -Alexandra (Ana) Kogl They seem to expect to feel dead inside in the classroom, which is heartbreaking. -Alexandr...

Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating. -Leslie Bayers We feel and think better when we move. -Leslie Bayers I try to get students moving or engaged with sensory textures as much as p...

Jennifer Baumgartner shares some lessons in love and learning from Mr. Rogers’ legacy on episode 579 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Mr. Rodgers was a very comforting influence as a young child. -Jennifer Baumgartner Moving slowly or taking your time is a very key theme of Mr. Rogers neighborhood, and also Fred Rogers’ life and the way he lived it. -Jennifer Baumgartner He didn’t shy away from talking about difficult subjects....

Karen Costa describes learning to teach, design, and rest on episode 578 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Gardening is something I’ve tried and failed at many times. I don’t know if it’s something you can win or fail at. -Karen Costa There’s a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us. -Karen Costa The mindset is learning from nature rather than learning about nature. -Karen Costa ...

Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Sometimes there is no positive outcome when something...

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What’s going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we’re using it to mean, it’s that it doesn’t have a proper referent in the world. -Emily M. Bender There’s a much broader range of people who can have opinions on AI. -Alex Hanna The boosters...

Rolin Moe shares about rebuilding trust in the value of education (among other things) on episode 575 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions. – Rolin Moe Learning is a continuous activity in all sorts of areas and all sorts of places. – Rolin Moe ...

Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually. -Alex Edmans What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate, but the inferences that we dra...

Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Whenever I’m planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience. -Tolu Noah I don’t think there’s necessarily one right way to approach planning. -Tolu Noah A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a plan, but you also need to be...