Teaching in Higher Ed

Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make It Better for Others, and Transform the University

with Roberta Hawkins & Leslie Kern

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Roberta Hawkins + Leslie Kern share about their book, Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University on episode 595 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We are not cogs in an institutional machine.

We advise lots of different ways of rethinking our relationship with work in the book.
-Roberta Hawkins

You can’t solve institutional problems with individual sacrifices.
-Leslie Kern

We are not cogs in an institutional machine.
-Roberta Hawkins

One of the challenges, is the idea that our work is kind of a calling. It's a passion project. The institution knows that we love our work and that we are passionate about our students and that we care about bringing great ideas to fruition in the world, so it will extract every little drop of that from you in terms of your time and energy.
-Leslie Kern

Invisibilized labor is an equity issue as well as a workload issue.
-Roberta Hawkins

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Remembering Ken Bain

with Dave Stachowiak

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Dave Stachowiak joins Bonni in remembering Ken Bain on episode 594 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

While I didn't ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I'm so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he's inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed.

Ken Bain was such good company to me and to countless people from around the world.
-Bonni Stachowiak

While I didn't ever have a chance to meet him or talk to him, I'm so glad for everything Ken did, all his writing, and how he's inspired a new generation of leadership and faculty development in higher education to have a conversation that was really needed.
-Dave Stachowiak

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Analog Inspiration: Human Centered AI in the Classroom with Carter Moulton

with Carter Moulton

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Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I hope we don't abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom.

I'm here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game.
-Carter Moulton

I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each other and wrestle with these moral and ethical questions.
-Carter Moulton

Those three questions underneath at the bottom of the card are really just trying to foster that critical thinking with students about what it is they're making and what it is they're doing and how they're engaging with AI.
-Carter Moulton

I hope we don't abandon the decades of research that has shown the benefits of peer learning, of caring, belonging, and relationships in the classroom.
-Carter Moulton

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Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley

with Barbara Oakley

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Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.

If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people's motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley

Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley

Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley

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Rethinking Student Attendance Policies for Deeper Engagement and Learning

with Simon Cullen & Danny Oppenheimer

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Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don't like other people telling them what to do.

There's a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer

You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as mandatory. And then students attend and they learn because they attend. But they also hate you, and they hate the subject and they hate everything to do with the class.
-Danny Oppenheimer

If you give people choices, sometimes they make bad choices. Scaffolding choices can help people make choices that actually align with their preferences more effectively.
-Danny Oppenheimer

Students love being treated like adults. They love having choice. Everybody loves having choice. People don't like other people telling them what to do.
-Danny Oppenheimer

In some sense students have a preference to attend class. And in some sense they have a preference to not attend class. Those preferences can coexist in some way.
-Simon Cullen

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