Teaching in Higher Ed

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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