Teaching in Higher Ed

Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark There is a stigma of talking about burnout. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark Perfection is a comparison disease. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark Higher ed will take as much as you give it. -Rebecca Pope-Ruark Resources Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark Beating Pandemic Burnout, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark World Health Organization’s definition of burnout Episode 219 with Rebecca Pope-Ruark on Agile Faculty

Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode People are grieving and hurting. -Chinasa Elue Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now. -Chinasa Elue Language is power. -Laura Howard We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve. -Chinasa Elue Educational developers are caregivers. -Este Jordan The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity. -Chinasa Elue People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard. -Chinasa Elue We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces. -Chinasa Elue It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail. -Chinasa Elue Resources Unpacking Resilience & Grief Workbook What Are We Talking About When We Talk About ‘Care’ by Dr. Hannah McGregor Hannah McGregor’s website Kinnesaw State University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode People are used to using tags as a way to filter information. -Kevin Kelly Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks. -Kevin Kelly We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in. -Kevin Kelly The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes. -Kevin Kelly Resources How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary AAEEBL Meetup: How can students generate evidence of their learning in a remote world? Flexible Course Run of Show Template Startup & shutdown checklists CSU Flexible Course Delivery EDUCAUSE: 7 Things You Should Know About Google Jockeying Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bordain: Preparation, practice, planning Chat jockeys (volunteer in-person students who monitor the Zoom chat while you lecture) LaGuardia Community College Student Technology Mentor Program Google Docs Lewis Carroll Maya Angelou quarter Hypothesis Classroom Salon eMargin tiny.cc

Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode You have to find and develop your personality. -Alan Levine I like to model being imperfect. -Alan Levine For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being. -Alan Levine Resources Mentioned Zencastr Zoom MIT – Open Courseware Initiative How to explain open educational resources to students, in terms of the value of college? – Loïc Plé Why does he do it and please never stop. – Terry Greene “How do you guide people into the most appropriate level/literacy for the moment, and get them started? – Joe Murphy What the SPLOT is that? Jon Udell Hamburger Menu on NetNarratives website Alan Levine’s shower interface photos on Flickr Remi Kalir Annotated 13 Ways of Looking at a Sticky Note Jeffrey W. McClurken Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Check Starter Course Bonni’s YouTube playlist: SIFT (Four Moves) Episode 399: Satire from McSweeney’s Julie Cadman-Kim replies to a question about if her fantastic article is available in audio form CogDog’s Pinboard.in digital bookmarks Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream Alan’s treat for Bonni on Twitter posted at 2:08 pm on Feb 18, 2022 OEG Voices Podcast

Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Annotation is all around us. -Remi Kalir Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator. -Remi Kalir Annotation provides information. -Remi Kalir This is an act of public pedagogy. -Remi Kalir Resources Annotation, by Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia Crowdsourcing Ungrading, by David Buck – produced by the #UNgrading Virtual Book Club On Grading, Efficiency, and Contingency – Chapter by Mary Klann in Crowdsourcing Ungrading Remi’s blog post: #Annotation is (#Annotate22 January) Remi’s blog post: #Annotation on (#Annotate22 February) Annotation is a grade with criticism. An instructor grading Jacques Derrida. Annotation is a dedication, a date, a flower. “I give this June day to Ms. Gordon Bottomley the inside of this book. Michael Field June 5, 1908” MD was a pseudonym for authors Gathering Bradley & nice Edith Cooper Annotation is a threat and criminal. Note by Jacob Chansley written at desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6, 2021 Annotation on the Woolworth’s lunch counter. February 1, 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond & Jibreel Khazan – The Greensboro Four – began sit-in protests The #marginalsyllabus Debbie Reese Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print, by Sandra Stevenson (about Alexandra Bell’s redactions to New York Times headlines) The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell, by Doreen St. Félix PubPub platform The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated The Declaration of Independence: Annotated

Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Get rid of the competition and become a team player. -Rebecca Hogue Assume good intentions. -Rebecca Hogue Resources Preparing Online Teams for Success, by Rebecca Hogue Treehouse Village Ecohousing Consolidated Recommendations on Teaching in Higher Ed Demystifying Instructional Design Miro Trello Google Docs Google Slides Camtasia Microsoft Sway Google Sites Zoom

Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail. -Rachelle O’Brien Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex. -Rachelle O’Brien Resources PlayThinkLearn Eduscapes Episode 397 with Audrey Watters: Teaching Machines Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning What is a Game, by Bernard Suit Education Burrito – unwrapping the ‘fun in games’ O’Brien, R, E., & Farrow, S (2020). Escaping the inactive classroom: Escape Rooms for teaching technology. Journal for Social Media in Higher Education. O’Brien, R, E. (2020). The Great Escape – Escape Rooms for Learning and Teaching. Durham University. O’Brien, R, E. (2021). Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast. AdvanceHE. Using games in Teaching My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)

Josh Eyler discusses the problem with grades on episode 401 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning. -Josh Eyler The grades are not the end of the story. They are not even the bulk of your story. They are a chapter of your story. -Josh Eyler Resources Episode 65 with Josh Eyler: Teaching Lessons from Pixar Episode 231 with Josh Eyler: How Humans Learn How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler The New Education, by Cathy Davidson David Buck on Twitter Ungrading, an Introduction, by Jesse Stommel Evergreen State College Evaluation

Jeff Hittenberger helps Bonni culminate her 400th episode by talking about the heart of a teacher on episode 400 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I had some assumptions coming into teaching -Bonni Stachowiak I never knew how much my textbooks cost. -Bonni Stachowiak I care about other people and that I like to make meaningful progress towards a goal, I try to celebrate those parts of me. -Bonni Stachowiak I think we are all just continually trying to figure stuff out. Nobody really has it all together. -Bonni Stachowiak An episode has aired every single week since June of 2014. That is a kind of discipline I feel grateful for. -Bonni Stachowiak I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together. -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak’s podcast) Episode 230 with Peter Kaufman – Teaching with Compassion Rachel Held Evans Podcast page where you can browse by category Episode 208 – The 208 Backstory (more on Bonni’s journey into teaching) Katie Linder

Bonni Stachowiak shares some satire from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on episode 399 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many. -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Mentioned How We Will Separate You From Any Lingering Hope and Other Important Topics of Today’s Faculty Meeting, by Julie Cadman-Kim: Shared with permission by McSweeney’s and the author Julie Cadman-Kim McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998 Prof Michelle Ryan’s tweet re: tl;dr papers website Intramolecular interactions play key role in stabilization of pHLIP at acidic conditions, by Nicolas Frazee and Blake Mertz “Scientists do experiments which are hard to do in real life, but easy to do in a computer. They use a computer program to make the experiment happen inside the computer. Scientists use this process to understand how things work. They use this process to understand how biology works, and how things that we use work.” – the tl/dr version