
Teaching in Higher Ed
Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Latest episodes

May 16, 2019 • 39min
Engaging Students Using FlipGrid
Ramesh Laungani talks about engaging students using FlipGrid on episode 257 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
How do we support and amplify those more quiet voices?
—Ramesh Laungani
The typed discussion board doesn’t allow for discussion … there’s no back and forth per se.
—Ramesh Laungani
Resources Mentioned
#flipgridfever
Banking model of education – Paulo Freire
1000 STEM Women Project

May 9, 2019 • 37min
Creating Wicked Students
Paul Hanstedt shares about Creating Wicked Students on episode 256 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If we’re going to face wicked problems, we’d better have wicked competencies.
—Paul Hanstedt
We have to communicate to students what we’re looking for.
—Paul Hanstedt
Constraint can be valuable for creativity.
—Paul Hanstedt
We need to find ways to allow students to take risks.
—Paul Hanstedt
Resources
Paul Hanstedt ACUE Community article: Five Tips for Getting a Good Start on the Semester (and Maybe Even Enjoying Ourselves a Little)
Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, by Paul Hanstedt*
General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty, by Paul Hanstedt*
Wicked the musical
Milgram experiment
AAC&U creativity rubric
Recess Revolution

May 2, 2019 • 16min
AHSIE Conference Reflections
Bonni Stachowiak shares about her experience at the AHSIE Conference on episode 255 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
If you’re going to come to my class, you need to come with purpose and passion.
—Leticia P. Lopez
Resources Mentioned
AHSIE 11th Annual Best Practices Conference | April 14-17, 2019 | Riverside, CA
AHSIE 2019 Program Details
Gina A. Garcia
Decolonizing Hispanic-Serving Institutions: A Framework for Organizing – Gina Ann Garcia, 2018
Exploring College Students’ Identification with an Organizational Identity for Serving Latinx Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Emerging HSI | American Journal of Education: Vol 124, No 2
Episode 123 with Yolanda Flores Niemann on Presumed Incompetent
What Does it Mean to be Latinx-serving? Testing the Utility of the Typology of HSI Organizational Identities | Garcia | Association of Mexican American Educators Journal
Microaggressions in the Classroom- YouTube
Microaggression presentation – Google Slides
Dunning–Kruger effect – Wikipedia

Apr 25, 2019 • 39min
Stop Talking, Start Influencing
Jared Cooney Horvath shares about his book Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick on episode 254 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Don’t try to force your audience to choose between you or your notes.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
You remember what you pay attention to.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
Recall leads to deeper memories.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
If you want to learn anything, you’ve got to be in that sweet spot of stress.
—Jared Cooney Horvath
Resources Mentioned
Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick, by Jared Cooney Horvath*
Episode 72 with Dr. Robert Bjork
Episode 94 with Dr. Pooja Agarwal
LME Global

Apr 18, 2019 • 40min
Spaces and Places (and Nudges)
Jose Bowen talks about Spaces and Places (and Nudges) on episode 253 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Ultimately what we’re trying to do is create self-regulated learners.
—Jose Bowen
We know that students are digitally distracted all the time — this is not a classroom problem.
—Jose Bowen
Your learning management system is all about nudges.
—Jose Bowen
Make your classroom so interesting … that students don’t want to check Facebook.
—Jose Bowen
Resources Mentioned
Jose Bowen is an expert consultant for ACUE on the following course modules:
Using Student Achievement and Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
Engaging Underprepared Students
ACUE Community article: Using Feedback From Students to Improve Your Teaching
Jose Bowen on Teaching in Higher Ed:
Episode 30
Episode 136
Books:
Teaching Naked, by José Antonio Bowen*
Teaching Naked Techniques, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson*

Apr 10, 2019 • 44min
Ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development
Maha Bali and Autumm Caines share about ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development on episode 252 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
A lot of the faculty development I offer is very different from my own professional development.
—Maha Bali
What’s hospitable in one context isn’t hospitable in another.
—Autumm Caines
Resources Mentioned
A call for promoting ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development via connected learning, by Maha Bali and Autumm Caines
Equity Unbound
TIHE #223: But You Can’t Do That in a STEM Course with Karen Cangialosi
DigPINS.org
Virtually Connecting
Hypothes.is
Dual-pathway MOOCs
Dual-layer MOOCs
Matt Crosslin’s website
Twitter Journal Club
Marginal Syllabus
Not Yet-Ness
Intentionally-equitable Hospitality – new article coming soon
Social Justice & Hybrid workshop opportunities at #oer19
Mozilla Open Leaders
Rebecca Hogue
CCC Digital Learning Day keynote
“Imagination of how things could be otherwise is central to the initiation of the transformative process”. (Mezirow, 2006/2018 p. 119).

Apr 4, 2019 • 43min
Annotating the Marginal Syllabus
Remi Kalir discusses annotating the marginal syllabus on episode 252 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Annotation is a cultural practice. It’s a social practice. It’s collaborative.
—Remi Kalir
I think it’s important that we promote social collaborative activity.
—Remi Kalir
Resources Mentioned
Marginal Syllabus
2018-19 Marginal Syllabus
Hypothes.is
CROWDLAAERS
Annotate Your Syllabus, by Remi Kalir

Mar 28, 2019 • 41min
One in a Million
Bonni and Dave Stachowiak and guests celebrate a million downloads of Teaching in Higher Ed on episode 250 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If I want my students to take risks and not be afraid to fail, then I need to take risks and not be afraid to fail.
—Kevin Gannon
We need people like us, and people not like us, and we need access to them lots of the time.
—Peter Newbury
Resources Mentioned
Linda Oakleaf’s one in a million – Episode 183 with Robin DeRosa
An episode that changed your mind about something? Episode 81 with Stephanie Vie
Christina Moore’s one in a million – Episode 209 with Asao Inoue
An episode that made you laugh? Episode 138 with Mike Caulfield and any episode featuring Todd Zakrajsek
An episode you learned a lot from? Episode 130 with Chris Gilliard
An embarrassing moment from the podcast? Episode 36 with Ken Bain (see also Episode 100 – the Failure Episode)
Ian Wolf’s one in a million – Episode 112 – A Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto with Kevin Gannon
An episode that changed how you approach your own learning? Episode 53 with Peter Newbury
Erin Whitteck’s one in a million – Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
Isabeau Iqbal’s one in a million – Episode 94 with Pooja Agarwal
An episode that made you cry? Episode 165 on course evaluations
Josh Eyler’s one in a million – Episode 230 – Teaching with Compassion with Peter Kaufman
Episode 9 with Crystal Renfro and Mary Axford
Crystal Renfro on Twitter
Academic PKM – Chrystal Renfro
Favorite moment from an episode? Episode 141 with Clint Smith III
A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your teaching? Stephen Brookfield
The Skillful Teacher, by Stephen Brookfield*
A repeating guest who has had a profound impact on your life? James Lang
Jeff Young – one in a million – Episode 217 with Jesse Stommel on ungrading
An episode that continues to inspire you? Episode 215 with Bryan Dewsbury

Mar 21, 2019 • 30min
Mindset, Metacognition, and Math
Silvia Heubach discusses mindset, metacognition, and math on episode 246 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
The more you can make stories and connections and reasons, the better it allows the student to learn.
—Silvia Heubach
Learning happens when students do work.
—Silvia Heubach
When you try a new methodology … you have to sell it to the students.
—Silvia Heubach
The teacher is a coach that can help you, but you need to do the practice.
—Silvia Heubach
Resources Mentioned
The Impact of Faculty Attitudes About Intelligence
CSLA Math Professor Receives CSU Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award
First in the World program
Silvia Heubach’s website
Teach Students How to Learn, by Saundra McGuire*
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck*
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent*
Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty, by Robert Talbert*

Mar 14, 2019 • 45min
Surveying Social and Open Learning
Debbie Baff talks about surveying social and open learning on episode 248 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
All of the different things I’ve done have led me to this place now.
—Debbie Baff
The value of an open digital badge is not the badge itself — it’s the learning behind it.
—Debbie Baff
Resources Mentioned
OER Wales Cymru
OER15
Catherine Cronin on Episode 152
#LTHEchat
Association of Learning Technology
Virtually Connecting
Mozilla backpack
Sue Beckingham
Chrissi Nerantzi
Eleanor Beer
Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam\*
https://bryanmmathers.com/
https://chrissinerantzi.wordpress.com/
The Sketchnote Army
The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking, by Mike Rohde \*
Paper Fiftythree
Procreate
Adobe Sketch
Sheila MacNeill
Sue Beckingham reflects on #SocMedHE18