Teaching in Higher Ed

Unraveling Faculty Burnout

with Rebecca Pope-Ruark

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Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Higher ed will take as much as you give it.

There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

There is a stigma of talking about burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Perfection is a comparison disease.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Higher ed will take as much as you give it.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

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Unpacking Resilience & Grief

with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard & Este Jordan

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Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.

People are grieving and hurting.
-Chinasa Elue

Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.
-Chinasa Elue

Language is power.
-Laura Howard

We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.
-Chinasa Elue

Educational developers are caregivers.
-Este Jordan

The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.
-Chinasa Elue

People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.
-Chinasa Elue

We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.
-Chinasa Elue

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.
-Chinasa Elue

Resources

How to create flexibility for students and ourselves

with Kevin Kelly

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Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.

People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.
-Kevin Kelly

Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.
-Kevin Kelly

We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.
-Kevin Kelly

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.
-Kevin Kelly

Resources

Open Education as a Way of Being

with Alan Levine

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Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.

You have to find and develop your personality.
-Alan Levine

I like to model being imperfect.
-Alan Levine

For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.
-Alan Levine

Resources Mentioned

Annotation is

with Remi Kalir

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Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Annotation is all around us.

Annotation is all around us.
-Remi Kalir

Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator.
-Remi Kalir

Annotation provides information.
-Remi Kalir

This is an act of public pedagogy.
-Remi Kalir

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