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RUOnlineCon

Curiosity, Connection, and Creativity: Cornerstones of Engaged Learning

Rutger's University Online Education Services
March 16, 2026

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THE LANDSCAPE

  • Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis, by Bryan Alexander
  • Future Trends in Technology and Education (FTTE), with Bryan Alexander
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 604: Peak Higher Ed: AI’s Possible Futures, with Bryan Alexander
  • Faculty Members Are Burned Out—and Technology Is Partly to Blame, by Lauren Coffey
  • Report: 2024 CIN Faculty EdTech Survey | EdTech and the Evolving Role of Faculty (WGU Labs)
  • The Mental Health Crisis Among Faculty and College Staff, by Mary Ellen Flannery
  • The Healthy Minds Study and Associated Publications (Healthy Minds Network)
  • Disrupted student engagement and motivation: observations from online and face-to-face university learning environments, by Manisha Hari Rajan, Cristan Herbert, & Patsie Polly

CURIOSITY

  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 437: Reviving Our Own Curiosity, with Lindsey Kealey
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 608: Overcoming the Curse of Expertise and Other Ways to Be Inclusive in Our Teaching, with Sheila Tabanli
  • What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me About Learning, with Mike Wesch (YouTube)
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 453: Finding Joy and Curiosity in the Questions, with Liz Norell
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 606: An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, with Karen Costa
  • Personal Knowledge Mastery — Harold Jarche
  • Be Curious, Not Judgmental — Ted Lasso Clip
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 508: How Curiosity Can Transform Lives and Change the World, with Scott Shigeoka

CONNECTION

  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 482: Connections Are Everything, with Isis Artze-Vega & Oscar Miranda Tapia
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 551: Relationship-Rich Education at Scale, with Peter Felten & Kassidy Puckett
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 394: What Inclusive Instructors Do, with Tracie Addy
  • A Tool to Advance Inclusive Teaching Efforts: The “Who’s in Class?” Form, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Khadijah A. Mitchell, & Derek Dube
  • Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College, by Peter Felten & Leo M. Lambert
  • Connections Are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education, by Peter Felten, Leo M. Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, & Oscar R. Miranda Tapia

CREATIVITY

  • The Gap, by Bonni Stachowiak
  • Video: The Gap, by Ira Glass, Animated by Daniel Sax
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 542: How Creativity May Just Save Us All, with Rob Morgan
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 570: How to Get Started with Interactive Storytelling in Any Discipline, with Laura Gibbs
  • Video: Podcast Day: My Class Setup for Informative Speeches, by Tatiana Rodriguez
  • Video: Crafting Interactive Stories Using Twine – A Follow Up Conversation with Laura Gibbs
  • Video: Analog Inspiration Unboxing in the new T+L Studios
  • The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes, by Flower Darby
  • Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools, by Rebecca Fordon

TOOLS

  • Poll Everywhere
  • Consolidated Recommendations From All Past Teaching in Higher Ed Episodes
  • Bingo Bakery
  • Canva
  • Teaching in Higher Ed — Episode 518: Teaching with AI, with José Bowen
  • Padlet
  • Quizlet
  • Beautiful.ai
  • Hollyland Lark M2S Unboxing Video
  • POD Conference Fumbling and Evergoods Access Pouch
  • Procreate
  • Art Makers Club with Lisa Bardot
  • Art with Flo

NEXT STEPS

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Start where you are.
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  • Ask How Easy it is for a Student to Be Known in Your Classes
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Anderson Conference: A Critical Investigation of AI in Higher Education

Investigating the Human Work of Teaching in the Age of AI: Beyond the Binary

Portland Community College
January 30, 2026

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RESOURCES

PODCASTS

  • All AI Episodes on Teaching in Higher Ed
  • The NYT Opinions: A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.
  • The Opposite of Cheating Podcast (Season 2) Episode 41: Thomas J. Tobin
  • How Do Our Brains Work? with the Godfather of AI; Smart Girl Dumb Questions
  • Decoder with Nilay Patel: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education
  • Decoder with Nilay Patel: How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
  • Shell Game Podcast

11 MOST RECENT AI-RELATED DIGITAL BOOKMARKS

  • Raindrop.io
  1. Teaching AI Ethics in 2026: Human Labour, by Leon Furze
  2. Real or Fake? The AI Deepfake Game
  3. Dr. Jaime Hannans & Jerilee Petralba | Showcase #19 AIED Custom Bots/GPTs
  4. Public NotebookLM with AI Policies, Guidelines and Frameworks, by Eric Curts
  5. A Higher Ed Professional's Guide to Agentic AI, by Michelle Kassorla
  6. LinkedIn Post by Charles Logan re: the Language We Use to Talk About Technology
  7. Hard Fork Podcast Episode: Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
  8. Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like, by Federico Viticci
  9. An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now: What AI to use in late 2025, by Ethan Mollick
  10. Productivity, AI and Pushback, by Seth Godin
  11. The 5 AI Tensions Leaders Need to Navigate, by Rebecca Hinds and Robert I. Sutton for HBR

VIDEOS

  • Is Hasan Smarter than a 13-Year-Old Math Genius? (No)
  • What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me About Learning
  • Mike Caulfield's YouTube Channel with His AI and Other Critical Thinking and Fact Checking Videos

KEEP GROWING YOUR CRITICAL AI LITERACY

  • Page: Bonni's AI Bookmarks
  • RSS Feed: Bonni's AI Bookmarks
  • Everything Educators Need to Know About GenAI in 2026, by Leon Furze
  • What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not. by Marc Watkins
  • Avoiding AI: Strategies for Keeping AI (Mostly) Out of Your Course, by Derek Bruff
  • Tetrads for Sensemaking by Harold Jarche
  • Can You Keep a Secret? Understanding Media and McLuhan's Media Tetrad by Bonni Stachowiak
  • Artificial Intelligence and Human Imagination: Beyond agency and ambition by Josh Brake
  • Ten Things on My Mind About AI and Education: Integrate it or reject it, but it is untenable not to adapt in response to generative AI by Josh Brake
  • We Shape Our Tools. Then They Shape Us. A framework for understanding how what we create shapes us by Josh Brake

TOOLS

  • SwayBeta.ai - Talk more. Fight less.
  • Padlet
  • Quizlet
  • Canva
  • Loom

eCampus Conference

Teaching Presence in a Time of Isolation

University System of Georgia
November 14, 2025

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RESOURCES

VIDEOS

  • Michelle Pacansky-Brock's Brief, Imperfect Videos
  • Dave Stachowiak's High School Chemistry Teacher
  • Joe Hoyle's Accounting Mysteries and Puzzles
  • Bobby McFerrin Teaching the Pentatonic Scale
  • Michael Wesch Presents: The Sleeper

ARTILCES AND GUIDES

  • How to create a welcome video by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
  • Humanizing online learning by Michelle Pacansky-Brock
  • The Swiss Cheese Model
  • How to make your teaching more engaging, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh for The Chronicle of Higher Education

WEBSITES

  • Humanizing STEM online learning site
  • Retrieval Practice
  • Josh Eyler
  • Sara Rose Cavanagh
  • Maha Bali

 

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

  • Canva
  • How to Create an Interactive Game in Canva
  • Bonni's GTD Workflow Game (Made with Canva)
  • Loom
  • Quizlet
  • Quizlet Live
  • PollEverywhere

BOOKS

  • The spark of learning energizing the college classroom with the science of emotion, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh for West Virginia University Press
  • How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching , by Josh Eyler for West Virginia University Press
  • Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, by James Lang for Jossey-Bass

ETOM Fall 2025 Conference

Reimagining Teaching and Learning in the Age of Emerging Technology

Oakland Community College
November 7, 2025

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RESOURCES

INNOVATION

  • Marshal McLuhan
  • Tetrad of Media Effects
  • Tetrads for Sensemaking, by Harold Jarche
  • How AI is Fueling an Existential Crisis in Education on The Verge
  • The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here: The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse, by Damon Beres

IMAGINATION

  • All Aboard: Digital Skills in Higher Education
  • Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
  • TED Radio Hour | Generations
  • Gentelligence; Conversations Between Generations | Viona Terleth
  • 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier, by David Yeager
  • Wise Feedback: Using Constructive Feedback to Motivate Learners, by Devshikha Bose
  • Imagination: A Manifesto, by Ruha Benjamin
  • Imagination Playbook, by Ruha Benjamin

IMITATION

  • SwayBeta.ai
  • Is This What People Think It Is? Critical Thinking with AI | Mike Caulfield
  • How to Turn Your Canva Designs into Shareable Templates
  • Sean Michael Morris
  • Loom
  • SnagIt
  • Minimising Academic Misconduct Through Effective Assessment Design (Swiss Cheese Model)
  • Self-Declaration Assignments, by Laura Gibbs
  • Padlet
  • Todd's AI Playground
  • Bonni's AI Bookmarks Page on Raindrop
  • Teaching in Higher Ed AI Resources and Episodes

Creating Healthy Organizations Conference

Dignity in Action
From Insight to Action

Vanguard University
April 26, 2025

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RESOURCES

  • Coaching for Leaders Podcast + Free Membership
  • Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast
  • 724: How to Bring Out the Best in People, with Donna Hicks on Coaching for Leaders
  • Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, by Donna Hicks
  • Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People, by Donna Hicks
  • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen
  • 279: How to Grow Your Professional Network, with Tom Henschel on Coaching for Leaders

FROM OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY

Thanks to all of you who were able to join us for the session. Here's what you contributed.

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