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The Productive Online and Offline Professor

| January 2, 2020 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Bonni Stachowiak shares about her new book – The Productive Online and Offline Professor on episode 290 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

One of the ways I think I avoid burnout and still am passionate and joyful about the work that I am privileged to get todo is because I have that margin.

In terms of productivity, we really have to make these systems work for us.
-Bonni Stachowiak

If you can proactively create the space and systems before it hits the breaking point, it opens up the doors to do so much more and enjoy the journey so much more.
-Dave Stachowiak

One of the ways I think I avoid burnout and still am passionate and joyful about the work that I am privileged to get to do is because I have that margin.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources Mentioned

Syllabus Resources

with Angela Jenks

| December 26, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Angela Jenks on episode 289 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I think the most important thing is thinking about the syllabus from a student's perspective.

The farther you get in a field, the more differently you read.
-Angela Jenks

Looking for open education resources is always good, no matter what field you are in.
-Angela Jenks

I think the most important thing is thinking about the syllabus from a student's perspective.
-Angela Jenks

Resources Mentioned

Angela Jenks, UCI anthropology, earns an Academic Senate award for teaching in a field she almost didn’t pursue

Angela’s Twitter thread about syllabi

What information to include in syllabus?

Creating Your Syllabus from University of Michigan

When will your class meet?

Generic Syllabus Maker from Caleb McDaniel

Remember the holidays

Holiday tool from the University of Iowa

How much reading should you assign?

Course Workload Estimator from Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence

How much do the books/course materials cost?

How many works are written by women, people of color, or other marginalized authors?

Resources for decanonizing anthropology

Is your syllabus accessible?

Conduct a more detailed self-assessment of inclusion in your syllabus and course design with this survey

Inclusion By Design: Survey Your Syllabus and Course Design

Include a statement on access and inclusion

Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements

Include a basic needs statement

Basic Needs Security and the Syllabus, by Sara goldrick-Rab

Give a quiz on your syllabus, or make it interactive

Academia Next

with Bryan Alexander

| December 19, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Bryan Alexander shares about his book Academia Next on episode 288 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

“I’m happy to be as open as possible because that makes my work better."

“I’m happy to be as open as possible because that makes my work better.”
-Bryan Alexander

Resources Mentioned

Connected Teaching

with Harriet Schwartz

| December 12, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Harriet Schwartz shares about her book Connected Teaching on episode 287 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

People are at their best when they can engage in healthy growth-fostering relationships.
-Harriet L. Schwartz

We have to maintain the standards of our profession and the standards of our discipline but at the same time understand that not everybody’s experience is the same as ours.
-Harriet L. Schwartz

Interactions and relationships are really sites and sources for learning.
-Harriet L. Schwartz

Resources Mentioned

Geeky Pedagogy

with Jessamyn Neuhaus

| December 5, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Jessamyn Neuhas shares about Geeky Pedagogy on episode 286 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Just because you know a lot about something doesn’t mean you know how to teach it.
-Jessamyn Neuhas

There are a lot of things that student evaluations can’t tell us and a lot of ways that they can be flawed.
-Jessamyn Neuhas

We have to learn how to be effective teachers.
-Jessamyn Neuhas

Teaching and learning is a social interaction. We tend to be underprepared for the social interaction part of our job.
-Jessamyn Neuhas

Resources Mentioned

Reflections on the ESCALA HSI Summer Institute

with Janue Johnson

| November 27, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Janue Johnson and Bonni Stachowiak share our reflections on the ESCALA HSI Summer Institute on episode 285 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

One of the things that stuck out to me was aligning learning activities with learning goals and assessments.
-Janue Johnson

Resources Mentioned

ESCALA Educational Services
And Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou
Using our cultural assets – Laura Rendón
TILT
Luke Wood
Brené brown – clear is kind and unclear is unkind
Classroom observation TOPSE
COPUS
Episode 264 with Melissa Salazar from ESCALA
NameCoach

Process Over Product in Open Education

with Arley Cruthers

| November 21, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Arley Cruthers discusses process over product on episode 283 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

One of the things that my coach used to always say is that in order to focus on winning you have to forget about winning.
-Arley Cruthers

If you focus on the process, that is when you are going to have a rich and valuable experience.
-Arley Cruthers

Resources Mentioned

Living-Learning Communities That Work

with Mimi Benjamin, Karen Inkelas & Jody Jessup-Anger

| November 14, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Mimi Benjamin, Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, and Jody E. Jessup-Anger Share about living-learning communities on episode 283 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

Creating community is really important, it can help students feel connected to both the institution and their academic pursuits.
-Mimi Benjamin

Faculty have a really great opportunity to reinforce the identity of the living-learning community in the courses.
-Mimi Benjamin

Resources Mentioned

Living-Learning Communities That Work: A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery, and Assessment (Stylus, 2018)
High Impact Educational Practices (HIPs)
Residential Learning Community (RLC), Living-Learning Community (LLC), and Living-Learning Program (LLP)
https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/elon-statement-on-residential-learning-communities/
John Dewey – responsible for the revisiting of living learning communities.
The experimental college
Laurie Schreiner – research on thriving
Elon University Center for Engaged Learning Statement on Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact Practice

Using Challenges to Motivate Learners

with Michael Wesch

| November 7, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Michael Wesch shares about using challenges to motivate learners on episode 282 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.
-Michael Wesch

How do you be completely yourself while also being of great value to your students?
-Michael Wesch

Teaching doesn’t just happen in the classroom, it is a constant meditation.
-Michael Wesch

Shared difficulty creates tremendous community.
-Michael Wesch

Resources

ACUE: What Inspired Me to Redesign My Syllabus
ACUE: Developing Fair, Consistent, and Transparent Grading Practices
ACUE: Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
ACUE: Preparing an Effective Syllabus
Homework vs assignments vs challenges
The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life, by Bernard McGrane
Ryan Klataske
The UnThing Experiment
Life101 Podcast
How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half, by Jeff Young for EdSurge
Desirable difficulties – Robert Bjork coined the term.
Episode 277 with Derek Bruff
Video: 10 Tips for Online Teaching Video
Video: Wesch made in Vietnam (his first try at something like this)
Anth101 – Built with Ryan Klataske and Tom Woodward

Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education

with Rashida Crutchfield & Jennifer Maguire

| October 31, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Bonni Stachowiak discusses homelessness and housing insecurity in higher education with Rashida Crutchfield and Jennifer Maguire on episode 281 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Some of our students just don't want to be seen as being “in need”.
-Rashida Crutchfield

It is that mobility and constant insecurity that is a trauma experience.
-Rashida Crutchfield

It is that fear and stress response that has short and long term impacts on our physiology that manifests in many different ways.
-Rashida Crutchfield

Making the time to do something that is different has given me so much more energy, creativity, and ability to be present to my students.
-Jennifer Maguire

Resources Mentioned

The Joy of Teaching – Sustained

with Todd Zakrajsek

| October 24, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Todd Zakrajsek and Bonni Stachowiak discuss how to sustain our joy of teaching on episode 280 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Don’t look for people who are like you, look for the people who are like the people you would like to be.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Schedule time and figure out ways to take care of yourself.
-Todd Zakrajsek

If you understand the importance and value of what you’re doing, it has more value for you.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Teach the students you have.
-Todd Zakrajsek

Resources

Applied Creativity for Transformation

with Brian LaDuca

| October 17, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Brian LaDuca shares about applied creativity for transformation on episode 279 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

How do you take the concept of novel new knowledge and those aha moments and give them purpose?
-Brian LaDuca

We have to find a way to find these micro campuses on the campus to create pivots.
-Brian LaDuca

It’s the ambiguity that is the lock and key to the content and the resulting action is the tension.
-Brian LaDuca

The right and wrong answer isn’t nearly as important as your ability to filter down ideas, work together in ideas, and move ideas back into the system again.
-Brian LaDuca

Applied creativity inevitably has to be applied to something.
-Brian LaDuca

Meet the student where they are, in what they do, and how they think.
-Brian LaDuca

Resources Mentioned

Design Thinking in Teaching and Research

with Nicola Ulibarri

| October 10, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Nicola Ulibarri explores Design Thinking in Teaching, Research, and Beyond on episode 274.

Quotes from the episode

Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology that starts from understanding and addressing human needs.

-Nicola Ulibarri

Innovation is a learnable process.

-Nicola Ulibarri

Resources Mentioned

Intentional Tech

with Derek Bruff

| October 3, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Derek Bruff discusses his book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching.

Quotes from the episode

We’re learning from and with each other- and that is what I liked to call a learning community.
-Derek Bruff

I love using technology to help students bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the conversation.
-Derek Bruff

There is a different level of student engagement that happens when students know they are writing or creating for the public.
-Derek Bruff

Our pedagogy needs to inform how we use our technology.
-Derek Bruff

We learn better when we encounter new things through multiple modalities.
-Derek Bruff

Resources Mentioned

Reaching All Learners Through Innovation and Teaching Excellence, with Edward Leach

with Edward Leach

| September 26, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Edward Leach shares about Reaching All Learners Through Innovation and Teaching Excellence on episode 276 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

There isn’t a lot of focus on what it means to teach at a community college, which is totally different than being at a four-year institution.
-Edward Leach

The most critical aspect of the teaching and learning process are the faculty members in the classroom.
-Edward Leach

Resources Mentioned

NISOD – National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development

About NISOD

NISOD and ACUE Collaboration

How to Write a Book with People You Met on Twitter

with Melanie Sage, Nancy Smyth & Laurel Hitchcock

| September 19, 2019 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email

Melanie Sage, Nancy Smyth, and Laurel Iverson Hitchcock share how they wrote a book with people they met on Twitter on episode 275 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.