Laura Gibbs discusses how to create engaging online classes on episode 228 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Good work takes time.
—Laura Gibbs
Meaningful writing can happen in any kind of class … but you have to design the class to make that happen.
—Laura Gibbs
Thomas Tobin talks about his book Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education on episode 227 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Learning styles are not fixed characteristics.
—Thomas Tobin
It’s an iterative practice that allows students to cement things from short-term learning into long-term memory.
—Thomas Tobin
You don’t get a prize for knowing the answer … but you definitely get a prize for being able to apply it.
—Thomas Tobin
We’re lowering the barrier to access but we’re not lowering the rigor of the content itself.
—Thomas Tobin
Rajiv Jhangiani shares about critical open pedagogy on episode 226 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
We can actually modify our instructional resources to serve our pedological goals.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
The magic of open pedagogy is when you open it to not just faculty members but also students.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
Critical conversations are the ones happening at the margins.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
It’s difficult when we leave it to the marginalized to always have to advocate for themselves.
—Rajiv Jhangiani
Sometimes we’re going to take a few steps back, but most days we’re going to take a step forward.
—Matt Rhoads
If you’re willing to put in the work … then you’re going to have a successful book.
—Matt Rhoads
What can you do better than a textbook publisher other than the fact that you can be free?
—Kelly Robinette
What is it that I want my students to walk away from the class knowing that they’re not going to get from a publisher?
—Kelly Robinette
Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris share about An Urgency of Teachers on episode 224 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Having a kid, especially such a young child who’s seeing the world for the first time, makes me understand education in a completely different way.
—Jesse Stommel
When we’re teaching online, we’re not teaching to a screen — we’re teaching through a screen.
—Sean Michael Morris
What is it about the world we live in where teachers and the work of teaching is so urgent, so vital, so necessary
—Jesse Stommel
We have to be willing to let [teaching] be a process and not a finished product.
—Sean Michael Morris