

Agency, Learning, and Purpose
Apr 23, 2020
45:42
Martha Burtis shares about agency, learning, and purpose on episode 306 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Make space for people to find their agency.
-Martha Burtis
There is so much trauma among our students that we don’t realize.
-Martha Burtis
We need to rethink the opportunities we give students to demonstrate what they know.
-Martha Burtis
All of us can probably tell stories of that teach we had who changes our life.
-Martha Burtis
Resources Mentioned
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
- Video: Drive – The Surprising Truth Behind What Motivates Us
- Twitter thread by Rissa Sorensen-Unruh
- Domain of One’s Own
- A Brief History of Domain of One’s Own
- UMW Blogs
Reclaim Hosting - DS106
- Alan Levine
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein *
- Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges*
- CoLab Website
- Website for Martha’s Course
- Resources From an Ungrading Workshop
- University as a Wicked Problem