Maria Andersen discusses how to design courses for the uncertain Fall semester on episode 316 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Even when we are told what is going to be happening, nobody believes it anymore.
-Maria Andersen
This lack of knowledge for what is concretely going to happen is a barrier for a lot of people.
-Maria Andersen
Better to go deep than to go wide.
-Maria Andersen
Viviana Pezzullo shares about theory versus practice in pedagogy on episode 315 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It was interesting to see how the same technique may be applied in different fields.
-Viviana Pezzullo
Sometimes for students it may not be comfortable to share videos, but I think it is important for the professor to do it.
-Viviana Pezzullo
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Courtney Plotts discusses culturally-responsive online teaching on episode 314 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
How well are we really reaching our students? How is that authenticity coming through?
-Courtney Plotts
Show me community and I will participate. Show me that I am safe. Show me you understand my concerns.
-Courtney Plotts
If I really want to connect with you, I need to learn more about you and really define the space for you.
-Courtney Plotts
José Luis Vilson discusses race, class, and education on episode 314 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Either you get ashamed of your identity or you are proud of your identity.
-José Luis Vilson
I just didn’t realize that all that information I was gathering was going to become something that would eventually make me whole.
-José Luis Vilson
So many of us feel like education is a matter of life and death.
-José Luis Vilson
David White shares about digital visitors and residents on episode 312 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Fundamentally it is about motivation to engage.
-David White
That is what education is about, it is encouraging people to make connections.
-David White
A set of practices or literacies that exist in one context don’t necessarily easily translate over to another context.
-David White
The digital environment is as much where people live as the physical environment.
-David White
Robin DeRosa and Martha Burtis about the new ACE framework to guide instructional planning in responses to COVID-19 on episode 311 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Faculty would be well served by using their instructional missions more in their course designs.
-Robin DeRosa
I think reflecting the human condition is part of the job and the work of universities and colleges.
-Martha Burtis
We should be showing people how we survive a situation like this by embracing the human condition.
-Martha Burtis
We really need to keep broader humanity in mind right now and not be myopic in our vision.
-Robin DeRosa
Values-Centered Instructional Planning, by Robin DeRosa on Inside Higher Ed
Cooperative Games from Lillian Nave
Peaceable Kingdom Race to the Treasure! Award Winning Beat the Ogre Cooperative Game for Kids*
Rule of 2s: Keeping it Simple as You Go Remote for COVID19
Bill Dogterom on Teaching in Higher Ed – The Shared Journey
Summer 2020 Blogging Fest, by Laura Gibbs
Peter Kaufman on Episode 230: Teaching with Compassion
Article about Missouri Western State University Faculty Cuts in The Chronicle
F the Bread. The Bread Is Over., by Sabrina Orah Mark
Linda’s Tweet About Missouri Western State University Faculty Cuts
Remi Kalir shares about teaching and learning in a time of pandemic on episode 310 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
The so-called “normal” that existed did not work for many students to begin with.
-Remi Kalir
We will privilege care.
-Remi Kalir
The challenges facing every institution are going to be different.
-Remi Kalir
David Rhoads shares about his doctoral research on hyflex learning on episode 309 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
I would have wished that I would have had some of the flexibility that we are now trying to design in our university.
-David Rhoads
Every type of professor and every type of course needs to be reevaluated towards learning outcomes.
-David Rhoads
Ryan Straight shares ways to use EdTech to help students feel engaged, connected, safe, and productive on episode 308 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Leave the LMS to deal with the management portion of things and bring the community elsewhere, because that is where the engagement comes from.
-Ryan Straight
You have to be engaged first.
-Ryan Straight
The number one thing that I want students to do is be a person rather than just a username.
-Ryan Straight
Pedagogy comes first. The tool is just a tool.
-Ryan Straight
Dale Hoffman shares about a commitment to change on episode 307 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It took me about 5 years to get comfortable talking in front of an audience of people.
-Dale Hoffman
Trust is important.
-Dale Hoffman
Students need to like you before they can accept the idea that their education is relevant to you.
-Dale Hoffman
We need to make the prison experience a transformational one.
-Dale Hoffman
Martha Burtis shares about agency, learning, and purpose on episode 306 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Make space for people to find their agency.
-Martha Burtis
There is so much trauma among our students that we don't realize.
-Martha Burtis
We need to rethink the opportunities we give students to demonstrate what they know.
-Martha Burtis
All of us can probably tell stories of that teach we had who changes our life.
-Martha Burtis
David White and Jose Bowen share about inspiration, failures and everything in between on episode 305 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
The current situation has really brought people together.
-David White
Whilst it is difficult times, it has also been exhilarating.
-David White
I'm really hopeful that we are forming working relationships that we can carry on with through this.
-David White
This is ultimately the time to rethink what we do.
-Jose Bowen
A theme song, movie, or book
A tool
A Failure/Struggle
A Source of Inspiration
A Challenge
A Hope
Kevin Gannon shares about his book – Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto on episode 304 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Hope is embodied in practice.
-Kevin Gannon
Because I have hope, I cannot abide by the status quo because I know what could be, not just what should be.
-Kevin Gannon
“I had to realize that treating all students equally was not the same thing as treating all students equitably.”
-Kevin Gannon in Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Free speech is often weaponized against marginalized groups.
-Kevin Gannon
Rissa Sorensen-Unruh and Sean Michael Morris discuss critical pedagogy in STEM on episode 303 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Critical pedagogy sort of insists on a human connection in teaching and learning.
-Sean Michael Morris
Active learning and critical pedagogy have a lot of overlap.
-Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
I’ve always felt that critical pedagogy itself is very flexible and has to be able to grow and change with the times, with technology, with audiences, and with our new awareness of social justice.
-Sean Michael Morris
Learning is really their journey. We can go together and I can be part of that…. But in the journey, itself, I’m a bystander.
-Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
Tannis Morgan reflects on OpenEd and EdTech on episode 302 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
I think it’s important to approach things as fun.
-Tannis Morgan
What is your purpose to migrate towards open?
-Tannis Morgan
If you want open ed practices, you need open tools.
-Tannis Morgan
It is not the outcome, it is the doing part.
-Tannis Morgan
Andrew Stenhouse shares about positive work-life spillover on episode 301 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
We spend more of our waking hours at work than we do anyplace else.
-Andrew Stenhouse
There is always a fine line between engagement and burning ourselves out.
-Andrew Stenhouse
When we have control over our rhythm, that is where we tend to thrive.
-Andrew Stenhouse
If we are more engaged at work, we bring that positive energy, dedication, and sense of accomplishment back into our family life.
-Andrew Stenhouse
Bonni Stachowiak celebrates a curious milestone on episode 300 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
When you burn to know what comes next, you are feeling curious.
-Sara Rose Cavanagh in The Spark of Learning
Curiosity is an essential part of the way human beings learn and it always has been.
-Josh Eyler in How Humans Learn
Everybody has this hidden desire to want to do something meaningful in the world.
-Karina Garbezi in Episode #246
Amanda Coolidge talks about open education and growing up open on episode 299 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
There is nothing ever static, it is always growing or building or changing.
-Amanda Coolidge
Change builds resilience in people.
-Amanda Coolidge
What we are trying to do is create a more equitable society.
-Amanda Coolidge
David Peña-Guzmán discusses how to help rediscover the joy of reading on episode 298 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
It all began with a realization that it was not just my students, but also me who were struggling with reading.
-David Peña-Guzmán
I began to notice the extent to which my own reliance on technology was getting in the way of my reading.
-David Peña-Guzmán
My students’ lives are infinitely more complex than I could ever imagine.
-David Peña-Guzmán
Christina Zambrano-Varghese and Marcus Flax shares about transformative learning experiences on episode 297 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
You can get burnt out but when you get into a classroom where it is more of a community feeling, it is a lot easier to participate, think, and do your best.
-Marcus Flax
I was engaging with the information rather than just trying to study it.
-Marcus Flax
I’ve come to see how critical the first day of class is.
-Christina Zambrano-Varghese
I think about the main takeaway I want my students to get out of a class.
-Christina Zambrano-Varghese