James Lang shares about teaching the Literature Survey course on episode 210 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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
Asao B. Inoue discusses antiracist writing assessment ecologies on episode 209 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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
Bonni Stachowiak shares the 208 backstory on episode 208 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Do what you can to find out the lay of the land and don’t rely solely on interviews.
—Bonni Stachowiak
Wendy Purcell shares about rethinking higher education on episode 207 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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
Jeffery Galle discusses inquiry-based learning on episode 206 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Students get excited when they’re confronted with problems which they have confidence to explore.
—Jeffery Galle
Being an actively engaged student is not easy.
—Jeffery Galle
Start small and work outward from there.
—Jeffery Galle