Teaching in Higher Ed EdTech’s Role in Helping Students Feel Engaged, Safe, and Productive
May 7, 2020
38:17
Ryan Straight shares ways to use EdTech to help students feel engaged, connected, safe, and productive on episode 308 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
Leave the LMS to deal with the management portion of things and bring the community elsewhere, because that is where the engagement comes from.
-Ryan Straight
You have to be engaged first.
-Ryan Straight
The number one thing that I want students to do is be a person rather than just a username.
-Ryan Straight
Pedagogy comes first. The tool is just a tool.
-Ryan Straight
Resources Mentioned
- Inkademic YouTube Channel
- Slack
- Episode 140: Thinking Outside the LMS with Steven Michels
- Steven’s video on organizing a class structure in Slack
- What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain*
- Ken Bain on Teaching in Higher Ed: What the Best College Teachers Do
- Chris Gilliard
- Chris Gilliard on Teaching in Higher Ed