Teaching in Higher Ed

Designing Online Experiences for Learners

with Judith Boettcher

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Online learning

Judith Boettcher shares her expertise designing online experiences for learners on episode 189 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Autonomy really means helping students have their own sense of self.
—Judith Boettcher

What we really want to do is structure experiences where we don’t have the answers.
—Judith Boettcher

Review your courses and see where you can take the answers out and put the challenges in.
—Judith Boettcher

The best way to check whether or not you understand something is to teach it to someone else.
—Judith Boettcher

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Designing Inclusive Games for The Higher Ed Classroom

with Anastasia Salter

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Inclusive Games

Anastasia Salter on episode 188 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast discusses designing inclusive games for the Higher Ed classroom.

Quotes from the episode

What comes out of it is what someone imagines.
—Anastasia Salter

The first thing to decide is why you are making the game. How do you want people to encounter this concept you have?
—Anastasia Salter

Start out trying to build the thing that brought you to games.

—Anastasia Salter

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Laptops: Friend or Foe

with Todd Zakrajsek

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laptops

Todd Zakrajsek discusses laptops – friend or foe? – on episode 187 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Laptops weren’t the problem to begin with — attention was the problem.
—Todd Zakrajsek

Banning the problem doesn’t change the attention to you — it changes it to something else.
—Todd Zakrajsek

We live in a better system of thinking than dichotomies.
—Todd Zakrajsek

You can’t ban bacon thoughts.
—Todd Zakrajsek

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Assessing the Impact of Open Educational Resources

with C. Edward Watson

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Open education

Eddie Watson shares about assessing the impact of open educational resources on episode 186 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Privacy and Safety in Online Learning

with Christian Friedrich

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online learning

Christian Friedrich shares about privacy and safety in online learning on episode 185 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Privacy and safety are not the same thing.
—Christian Friedrich

Safety and privacy usually are contextual.
—Christian Friedrich

Notes

Nishant Shah:

  1. Making Safe (you look different, gender is different, so let’s invent something that prevents people like you from being harassed)
  2. Keeping Safe
  3. Being Safe
  4. Safeguarding
  5. Feeling Safe: agency, negotiation, making learners (and teachers) stakeholders in the creation of their own safety

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