Teaching in Higher Ed Using Challenges to Motivate Learners
Nov 7, 2019
37:32
Michael Wesch shares about using challenges to motivate learners on episode 282 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.
-Michael Wesch
How do you be completely yourself while also being of great value to your students?
-Michael Wesch
Teaching doesn’t just happen in the classroom, it is a constant meditation.
-Michael Wesch
Shared difficulty creates tremendous community.
-Michael Wesch
Resources
- ACUE: What Inspired Me to Redesign My Syllabus
- ACUE: Developing Fair, Consistent, and Transparent Grading Practices
- ACUE: Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
- ACUE: Preparing an Effective Syllabus
- Homework vs assignments vs challenges
- The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life, by Bernard McGrane
- Ryan Klataske
- The UnThing Experiment
- Life101 Podcast
- How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half, by Jeff Young for EdSurge
- Desirable difficulties – Robert Bjork coined the term.
- Episode 277 with Derek Bruff
- Video: 10 Tips for Online Teaching Video
- Video: Wesch made in Vietnam (his first try at something like this)
- Anth101 – Built with Ryan Klataske and Tom Woodward