Bonni Stachowiak on how the best communicators add a sense of the unexpected to their teaching.
Day one introductions
International education
Maha Bali shares about collaboration.
The reason virtual collaboration works really well is that there’s usually no hierarchy with the person you’re working with. —Maha Bali
If you want your students to collaborate, the main role of the educator is to provide them with something where collaboration is valuable. —Maha Bali
Virtually collaborating brings the conversations to people who can’t be there in person. —Maha Bali
If you want to keep learning, I think collaboration is necessary because you need to learn from somebody and with somebody. —Maha Bali
Gardner Campbell talks about engaging learners.
Learning is an enormously powerful and eventful kind of experience.
—Gardner CampbellRecognize that great ideas of all kinds come from all kinds of people at all stages of their knowledge.
—Gardner CampbellThere are some great ideas that are forever closed off to an expert because he or she is simply too conditioned by prior learning.
—Gardner Campbell
On this episode, Dr. Mike Cross is an undercover professor.
Read more in a Chronicle article about Mike
Today’s guest, Dr. McClain Watson, at University of Texas at Dallas, advocates for the importance of our students being able to: “ convince people in the professional world that they 1) know what they’re doing, 2) can be trusted, and 3) are interesting to be around?” On today’s episode: Professional Online Portfolios.
Bio: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/john-watson