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The Joyful Online Teacher with Flower Darby

with Flower Darby

| April 30, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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

Resources

  • The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes by Flower Darby
  • Michelle Pacansky-Brock
  • The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
  • Dave Ghidiu
  • Denise Maduli-Williams
  • TextExpander
  • Thor: God of Thunder gets a library card
  • A Starting Point for Seth Godin’s Blog
  • Feel Good Inc., by Gorillaz
  • Muddiest Point Handout from Purdue
  • Revitalizing the Muddiest Point for Formative Assessment and Student Engagement in a Large Class, by Amy Mackos, Kelly Casler, Joni Tornwall, and Tara O'Brien
  • Poll Everywhere

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

with Lew Ludwig & Todd Zakrajsek

| April 23, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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

Resources

      • The Science of Learning Meets AI: A Practical Faculty Guide to Purposeful Integration, Student Engagement, and Ethical Practice, by Lewis D. Ludwig & Todd D. Zakrajsek
      • Lilly Conferences: Evidence-Based Teaching & Learning
      • Mary-Ann Winkelmes
      • Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) Higher Education
      • Backward Design
      • The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, by Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger
      • Caraway Cookware
      • Joy Comes Back, by Donna Ashworth, read by Harry Baker
      • TripIt
      • The Other Side of the Door, by Jeff Moss

From Awareness to Action: Interrupting Bias in the Classroom

with Norma Montague

| April 16, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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

Resources

  • Norma Montague at Wake Forrest University
  • Episode 425: Inclusive Teaching with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan
  • Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom, by Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
  • Mind over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
  • Tiny Desk Concert: Mumford and Sons
  • Crucial Tracks
  • Alan Levine’s Cool Tech RSS Feed
  • Mix It Up Scratch Off Date Nights

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

with Teddy Svoronos

| April 9, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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

Resources

  • Agentic Everything: How the latest set of models changes things, by Teddy Svoronos
  • Course Corrections: Redesigning my course for AI, by Teddy Svoronos
  • Pray, Mr. Babbage, by Teddy Svoronos
  • Episode 590: Deep Background – Using AI as a Co-Reasoning Partner with Mike Caulfield
  • Episode 234: A New Lens for Learning Outcomes with Maria Andersen
  • José Antonio Bowen's AI Detector False Positive Calculator
  • Episode 605: Teaching with AI – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Future with José Bowen
  • MacWhisper
  • The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande

(Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

with Nancy Chick, Katarina Mårtensson & Peter Felten

| April 2, 2026 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

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

Resources

  • The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, by Nancy L. Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson
  • Human Synergistics
  • Dan Bernstein, Nancy Chick, Pat Hutchings, and Gary Poole Share Strategies for “Going Public” with SoTL
  • Book Resources (Including a Reading Guide)
  • I Lost My Job, by Robin DeRosa
  • Harold Jarche’s PKM Posts
  • A Systematic Literature Review of Students as Partners in Higher Education
  • Drawing Digital: The Complete Guide for Learning to Draw & Paint on Your iPad, by Lisa Bardot
  • The Illustrator's Guide to Procreate: How to Make Digital Art on Your iPad, by Ruth Burrows
  • The Correspondent: A Novel, by Virginia Evans
  • The Academic Imperfectionist
  • Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks, by Janice M. McCabe
  • Poll Everywhere

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