Teaching in Higher Ed

The Joyful Online Teacher with Flower Darby

with Flower Darby

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Flower Darby shares about being a joyful online teacher on episode 620 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.

Higher education doesn't do a great job of preparing faculty to teach, generally speaking, that's not new, but especially online teaching.
-Flower Darby

If you’re not a meme person, don’t do that. Something that isn’t authentic to your personality is not going to be effective.
-Flower Darby

Sometimes you don't need all the latest bells and whistles; you don't need the latest iPhone. We can be effective with simpler tools.
-Flower Darby

We can’t be joyful if we’re always working.
-Flower Darby

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The Science of Learning Meets AI with Lew Ludwig + Todd Zakrajsek

with Lew Ludwig & Todd Zakrajsek

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Lew Ludwig + Todd Zakrajsek uncover themes from The Science of Learning Meets AI on episode 619 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We could actually create an educational system. Not so that it deals with the problems we have with AI, but so that those problems are no longer relevant.

We could actually create an educational system. Not so that it deals with the problems we have with AI, but so that those problems are no longer relevant.
-Todd Zakrajsek

If you don't have students attention, they can't learn because if you don't attend to something, you can't learn it.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Keep in mind that you're the expert. This is your assignment. You know what you're doing, you know the content, so then you can judge what AI gives you, what works, and what still may need some work.
-Lew Ludwig

What this gets down to is backward design; we start with the learning goals. We should figure out how to assess them, and then decide if AI fits in that or not.
-Lew Ludwig

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From Awareness to Action: Interrupting Bias in the Classroom

with Norma Montague

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Norma Montague shares of her experiences going from awareness to action, interrupting bias in the classroom on episode 618 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they're going to contribute, invest. That's when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.

One thing that my work on inclusive teaching focuses on, is really being able to understand your learner's motivations.
-Norma Montague

One of the ideas that I learned from a colleague who had recommended a book was the idea of rebranding office hours as student hours.
-Norma Montague

I think it's important to help students understand what those student hours are for and how they can get the most out of them.
-Norma Montague

When students feel safe in the classroom, then they're going to contribute, invest. That's when I find that I can really increase their rigor and challenge them more.
-Norma Montague

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How Today’s Agentic AI Changes What and How We Teach with Teddy Svoronos

with Teddy Svoronos

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Teddy Svoronos describes how today’s agentic AI changes what and how we teach on episode 617 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think there's an analogy with these tools that I've been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they'll do that you won't quite understand.

An AI agent is an LLM that runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal.
-Teddy quoting Simon Willison's definition

The process of having a task, write a report, use a tool, web search, and do it over and over again until you feel like you've gotten the full sort of spectrum of things—that I think is what an agent really is.
-Teddy Svoronos

These LLMs are now becoming like this intermediary between me and the actual content. And so I'm optimizing in a different way than I used to.
-Teddy Svoronos

I think there's an analogy with these tools that I've been thinking of as cognitive debt, which is that as you offload to them, there are things that they'll do that you won't quite understand.
-Teddy Svoronos

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(Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

with Nancy Chick, Katarina Mårtensson & Peter Felten

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Nancy Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson share about The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on episode 616 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.

We see SOTL as simply inquiry into teaching and learning for the purposes of improving teaching and learning in context and then contributing to what we know about teaching and learning in support of the broader aims of higher education.
-Nancy Chick

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.
-Katarina Mårtensson

I can't go through this book and say who wrote this sentence or this section or whose idea this part was, because it really is a product of the three of us.
-Peter Felten

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