Teaching in Higher Ed

Critical Open Pedagogy

with Rajiv Jhangiani

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Rajiv Jhangiani shares about critical open pedagogy on episode 226 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Critical Open PedagogyWe can actually modify our instructional resources to serve our pedological goals.
—Rajiv Jhangiani

The magic of open pedagogy is when you open it to not just faculty members but also students.
—Rajiv Jhangiani

Critical conversations are the ones happening at the margins.
—Rajiv Jhangiani

It’s difficult when we leave it to the marginalized to always have to advocate for themselves.
—Rajiv Jhangiani

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Early Beginnings with Open Textbooks

with Kelly Robinette & Matt Rhoads

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Quotes from the episode

Open TextbooksSometimes we’re going to take a few steps back, but most days we’re going to take a step forward.
—Matt Rhoads

If you’re willing to put in the work … then you’re going to have a successful book.
—Matt Rhoads

What can you do better than a textbook publisher other than the fact that you can be free?
—Kelly Robinette

What is it that I want my students to walk away from the class knowing that they’re not going to get from a publisher?
—Kelly Robinette

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An Urgency of Teachers

with Sean Michael Morris & Jesse Stommel

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Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris share about An Urgency of Teachers on episode 224 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

An Urgency of TeachersHaving a kid, especially such a young child who’s seeing the world for the first time, makes me understand education in a completely different way.
—Jesse Stommel

When we’re teaching online, we’re not teaching to a screen — we’re teaching through a screen.
—Sean Michael Morris

What is it about the world we live in where teachers and the work of teaching is so urgent, so vital, so necessary
—Jesse Stommel

We have to be willing to let [teaching] be a process and not a finished product.
—Sean Michael Morris

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But You Can’t Do That in a STEM Course

with Karen Cangialosi

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Karen Cangialosi on episode 223 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast discusses open education in STEM.

Quotes from the episode

open education in STEMI love when my students are surprised at what I’m asking them to do.
—Karen Cangialosi

We have such an opportunity to use our classrooms as experimental places where we can really affect change.
—Karen Cangialosi

Rigor comes from the students themselves.
—Karen Cangialosi

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A Loyal Listener’s Reflections

with Ian Wolf

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Ian Wolf shares his reflections on listening to all the episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed on episode 222.

Quotes from the episode

A Loyal Listener’s ReflectionsYou have to make your expectations abundantly clear because nobody can meet an imaginary expectation.
—Ian Wolf

Put learning as the focus as opposed to the teaching as a focus.
—Ian Wolf

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On the Other Side of Freedom

with DeRay Mckesson

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DeRay Mckesson shares about his new book, On the Other Side of Freedom: A Case for Hope, on episode 221 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We should talk about the things that are true as simply as possible.
—DeRay Mckesson

You can’t fight for people you don’t know.
—DeRay Mckesson

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Agile Faculty

with Rebecca Pope-Ruark

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Rebecca Pope Ruark discusses her book, Agile Faculty, on episode 219 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Agile FacultyWhat if we create experiences rather than courses?
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark

How do we help our students learn rather than just play school?
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark

The goal of articulating tasks is to break them down into reasonable chunks.
—Rebecca Pope-Ruark

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Courses as Stories

with Alan Levine

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Alan Levine shares how he creates courses as stories on episode 218 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

stories

Instead of thinking about the world through headline news stories, think about it through the experiences that people have living in these different communities.
—Alan Levine

You get better by just practicing. Not rote practicing, but stuff where you’re free to explore.
—Alan Levine

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How to Ungrade

with Jesse Stommel

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Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

How to Ungrade

The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel

Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel

Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel

Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel

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Research on Engaging Learners

with Peter Felten

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Peter Felten discusses the research on engaging learners on episode 216 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Notes from the episode

Research on Engaging Learners
Shape what our students do and what they think in the most efficient ways possible.
—Peter Felten

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (from How Learning Works by Ambrose et al., 2010, p. 1)

Five Things Students Need to Do:

  1. Time
  2. Effort
  3. Feedback
  4. Practice
  5. Reflect

Three Things Students Need to Think/Feel:

  1. “I belong here.”
  2. “I can learn this.”
  3. “I find this meaningful.”

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Teaching as an act of social justice and equity

with Bryan Dewsbury

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Bryan Dewsbury describes teaching as an act of social justice and equity on episode 215 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Bryan Dewsbury

Mistakes are normal, but how you respond to the challenges is what will make you a better intellectual.
—Bryan Dewsbury

It is not my job to give them information — it is my job to extract potential they already have.
—Bryan Dewsbury

Don’t assume you can take a list of suggestions and implement them and assume that inclusion will happen.
—Bryan Dewsbury

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On Not Affirming Our Values

with Lori Martin, Stephen Finley & Biko Mandela Gray

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Stephen Finley, Lori Martin, and Biko Mandela Gray share about their article: “Affirming Our Values”: African American Scholars, White Virtual Mobs, and the Complicity of White University Administrators on episode 214 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Affirming Our Values
I try to have very honest conversations with my students.
—Stephen Finley

You have to have integrity before you stand before these students.
—Biko Mandela Gray

Integrity and honesty on both sides is absolutely necessary.
—Biko Mandela Gray

A lot of institutions think diversity is having a woman, having a person of color, on faculty — but not structural change.
—Stephen Finley

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Personal Knowledge Mastery

with Harold Jarche

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Personal Knowledge Mastery

Harold Jarche discusses personal knowledge mastery on episode 213 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You can’t turn data into information until you have the knowledge to understand the data.
—Harold Jarche

We are the sum of our interactions, our experiences, with others.
—Harold Jarche

Whatever you do, make it shareable.
—Harold Jarche

Leadership in the network era is helping make your network smarter.
—Harold Jarche

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Delegation in an academic context and other listener questions

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MotivationBonni Stachowiak answers listener questions on episode 212 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We actually can create motivation in the students we have.
—Robert Talbert

Motivation is hard work.
—Robert Talbert

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Email debt forgiveness day

Question 1: Assessing reflective essays

Question 2: Delegation

Question 3: Quizlet Live

Question 4: Discussion board metrics

Question 5: Tuition centers for math classes

Question 6: Sexual assault on campus and its ramifications in a journalism class

Question 7: Unmotivated students

Question 8: Course evaluations

Question 9: The professor as administrator

Question 10: Group presentations in live online classes

Reflecting on Our Teaching

with Catherine Haras

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Reflective practice

Quotes from the episode

The questions that we ask are often not really the questions that we’re asking.
—Catherine Haras

People learn through emotions.
—Catherine Haras

People learn when they’re surprised.
—Catherine Haras

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Teaching the Literature Survey Course

with James Lang

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James Lang shares about teaching the Literature Survey course on episode 210 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

What do we expect, in terms of breadth of knowledge within a discipline, and how do you get students to learn that?
—James Lang

Deep learning is when students create connections between the course material and their own lives.
—James Lang

Where are the opportunities in my syllabus for students to make their voices heard?
—James Lang

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Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies

with Asao Inoue

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Assessment and grading

Asao B. Inoue discusses antiracist writing assessment ecologies on episode 209 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Racism is a set of structures that often are invisible to us because they seem so natural.
—Asao B. Inoue

We all come from and work in hegemonic systems.
—Asao B. Inoue

I don’t think that anyone is a bad person … what we have are bad systems.
—Asao B. Inoue

The engine of learning is labor.
—Asao B. Inoue

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The 208 Backstory

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Bonni Stachowiak shares the 208 backstory on episode 208 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

backstory

Do what you can to find out the lay of the land and don’t rely solely on interviews.
—Bonni Stachowiak

 

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Rethinking Higher Education

with Wendy Purcell

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rethinking higher education

Wendy Purcell shares about rethinking higher education on episode 207 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think you’re seeing that universities now are needing to be much more connected to the society we serve.
—Wendy Purcell

You really will be learning throughout your life.
—Wendy Purcell

The very best education should transform you.
—Wendy Purcell

You are supporting transformation of people, and through people, transformation of society at large.
—Wendy Purcell

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
—Socrates

To an unprecedented extent, universities must partner with government, business, and civil society to take on the grand challenges of sustainable development that lie ahead.
—Jeff Sachs

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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