Teaching in Higher Ed

Higher Education for Good

with Catherine Cronin & Laura Czerniewicz

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Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz share about Higher Education for Good on episode 504 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Sometimes sets of values are at odds with the measuring systems in the university.

People are in a state of despair.
-Laura Czerniewicz

Sometimes sets of values are at odds with the measuring systems in the university.
-Laura Czerniewicz

Little moments of glimmers of innovation, not in the business sense of the word, but in the imaginative sense of the word, are good enough.
-Laura Czerniewicz

We tried to model the values that we talk about in the process of creating the book.
-Catherine Cronin

We wanted to stretch open the boundaries of a book.
-Catherine Cronin

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Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org. All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia.”

Online Learning Around the Globe

with Safary Wa-Mbaleka & Leni Casimiro

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Safary Wa-Mbaleka + Leni Casimiro share about their work in online higher education around the globe on episode 503 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

When you open online courses, you are opening it to serve the whole world. So we need to bring in this global perspective of online education.

As we deal with our local contexts, we adjust according to the culture of the people and how they learn.
-Leni Casimiro

Eventually I went to study and get a degree in about online education, then it really became a part of who I am today as an educator.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

The definition of online education is much more expanded, especially with a lot of the tools that are available today that facilitate collaboration.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

I believe that artificial intelligence is going to challenge everything that we knew about online education because at this point you can do a lot of things that we have no control over.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

When you open online courses, you are opening it to serve the whole world. So we need to bring in this global perspective of online education.
-Safary Wa-Mbaleka

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Learning in a Time of Abundance

with Dave Cormier

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Dave Cormier shares about his new book, Learning in a Time of Abundance, on episode 502 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It's not about it being right or wrong. It's about understanding where people are from.

I want you to include the word hate in front of learning styles and see what happens.
-Dave Cormier

It's not about it being right or wrong. It's about understanding where people are from.
-Dave Cormier

I value the headspace of a child whenever they're learning. And I value that more than whether or not they get something right.
-Dave Cormier

To have common sense is to know the available decisions.
-Dave Cormier

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Expanding Our Collective Understanding of Generative AI

with Autumm Caines & Maya Barak

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Autumm Caines + Maya Barak help us with expanding our collective understanding of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 501 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It's good to be skeptical.


It's good to be skeptical.
-Autumm Caines

And I feel like a lot of times students sign up for all these accounts without reading the terms of service, without reading the privacy policy, without thinking about the data that we're giving over, and without thinking about how that data could be used by a company.
-Autumm Caines

In a world of AI, it is becoming more important to be able to be more critical about the information that's coming to us and to have better tools available to sort out the truth from the fiction or fictionalized.
-Autumm Caines

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Generous Lessons from You

with Dave Stachowiak

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Dave Stachowiak and Bonni reflect on generous lessons from you on episode 500 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices.

I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Let's do 500 more!
-Bonni Stachowiak

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