Teaching in Higher Ed

You Must Remember This

with Michelle Miller

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Michelle D. Miller discusses why memory is important for learning – even in the age of Google on episode 348 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Ask students to link their learning to their own lives.

Ask students to link their learning to their own lives.
-Michelle D. Miller

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Online Culture

with Courtney Plotts

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Courtney Plotts is back on Teaching in Higher Ed to discuss online culture on episode 347 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

When we look at what successful students do, they are not independent, they are interdependent.

When we look at the culture of learning, whether in the online space or in the classroom space, a lot of students experience marginalization.
-Courtney Plotts

Research says that marginalization is a self-selected way to deal with acculturated stress.
-Courtney Plotts

When we look at what successful students do, they are not independent, they are interdependent.
-Courtney Plotts

We have to be honest that campus culture is not the online culture. It is an extension, but it is not the same thing.
-Courtney Plotts

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Filling the equity gap in STEM Fields

with Archana McEligot

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Archana McEligot discusses filling the equity gap in STEM fields on episode 346 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Seeing someone that looks like them is so important.

You really do need that interdisciplinary perspective when looking at data.
-Archana McEligot

We can’t work in silos, some of the greatest innovations and discoveries have happened through an interdisciplinary perspective.
-Archana McEligot

Many underrepresented students experience imposter syndrome.
-Archana McEligot

Seeing someone that looks like them is so important.
-Archana McEligot

Resources Mentioned

Big Data Discovery and Diversity: Through Research, Education Advancement and Partnership (BD3-REAP)

BD3-REAP Faculty

John Snow

Transforming a University

with Adanely Jimenez, Adrian Delgado & Jenny Vargas

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Adanely Jimenez, Adrian Delgado, + Jenny Vargas shares about transforming a university on episode 345 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I was grateful to have professors who took the time to ask me what was wrong, if I was ok, and how it was going. Being able to speak to my professors when I was going through something made it easier for me to be real.

It was a big 180 slap in the face thing for me being around a whole diverse group of people and students who were my age, but I really thought everyone my age thought the way I did.
-Jenny Vargas

I was grateful to have professors who took the time to ask me what was wrong, if I was ok, and how it was going. Being able to speak to my professors when I was going through something made it easier for me to be real.
-Adanely Jimenez

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Caring for the Whole Person

with Sharon Hamill

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Sharon Hamill speaks about caring for the whole person on episode 344 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think you have to embrace the messiness and recognize that this is probably where the best learning is going to occur.

It was an opportunity for these outstanding graduate students at Cal State San Marcos to be able to be on the frontlines actually educating.
-Sharon Hamill

Watching these public health students get in there and do their thing- I was just in awe.
-Sharon Hamill

I think you have to embrace the messiness and recognize that this is probably where the best learning is going to occur.
-Sharon Hamill

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