Teaching in Higher Ed

Maria Andersen shares about how learning is not a spectator sport on episode 177 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I feel like we’ve made online learning really transactional. — Maria Andersen We’ve taken the joy and excitement out of learning. — Maria Andersen The world is not as cut and dried as the problems we see in text. — Maria Andersen You don’t actually learn until you engage with it. — Maria Andersen Resources Mentioned Thanks to George Woodbury for recommending Maria to be a guest on Teaching in Higher Ed busynessgirl.com Mobile apps for education Wolfram Alpha Maria’s Speaking / talk menu Vilma Mesa’s Publications at University of Michigan Episode #168 with Teddy Svoronos Video: Why is math different now Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Bonni Stachowiak shares her experience attending OpenEd17, as well as other teaching lessons, on episode 176 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Open Education 2017 Conference Student Panel – Santa Ana college American Concrete Institute’s Annual Conference Robin DeRosa’s Open Textbooks post Pressbooks Matthew Bloom Scottsdale CC The Ohio State University Open Educational Resources Recommendations Take a look at the varied reasons people use Twitter via Storify Advice on giving teaching demos: From Josh Eyler From Adam Wilsman From Peter Newbury

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak answer listener questions on episode 175 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 1 Choose Your Own Adventure Learning, Part 2 Choose Your Own Adventure Assessment National Center on Universal Design for Learning 159: Dynamic Lecturing with Todd Zakrajsek UDL guidelines – version 2.0 – Examples and resources CAST’s UDL resources Getting Things Done Fork Your Syllabus, You Slackers Annotating DML www.learnhowtopodcast.com The Showrunner Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Laura Gogia shares how to develop learning objectives for the 21st century on episode 174 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There are people out there who live and die by learning objectives, and there are people who think they are the work of the devil. —Laura Gogia Knowledge is a dynamic, creative process. —Laura Gogia There are going to be times when it needs to be one way, and there are going to be times when it needs to be other ways. And that’s okay. —Laura Gogia It’s not about measuring as much as defining what you’re trying to measure. —Laura Gogia Resources Mentioned www.lauragogia.com 116: Connected Learning for the Curious Robin DeRosa (@actualham) – post on open textbooks Service-learning A Listener Question: Catching Up Domain of One’s Own Sean Michael Morris Virtually Connecting Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

  David Webster and Nicola Rivers resist resilience and share other unpopular opinions on episode 173 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode A very human approach to learning sees students as individuals. —David Webster I’m increasingly concerned with how anxious our students are. —Nicola Rivers This well-intentioned discourse is not as benign as it seems. —Nicola Rivers Try to think more broadly about how we define success and how we define failure. —Nicola Rivers Resources Mentioned Postfeminism(s) and the Arrival of the Fourth Wave by Nicola Rivers* A list of things millennials have ruined Critiquing Discourses of Resilience in Education How to Better Control Your Time By Designing Your Ideal Week by Michael Hyatt*

John Warner shares about values, interdisciplinary knowledge, and pedagogy on episode 172 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I realized I could make choices consistent with what I think is important. —John Warner What we think is best is highly dependent on our values. —John Warner Attention by itself is not a function of learning. —John Warner The classroom belongs to the student as much as the instructor. —John Warner Resources Mentioned Chicago Tribune’s Biblioracle McSweeney’s Internet Tendency A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace My “Last” Class by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed I Miss Teaching by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed I’m Never Assigning an Essay Again by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed Moving Students Away From Their Phones by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed The False God of Attention by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed Considering Student Silences by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed Teaching Sentences, Not “Grammar” by John Warner, Inside Higher Ed The Invitation by Bonni Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other* by Sherry Turkle Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Anton Tolman shares about his book Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling on episode 171 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Everybody who has taught has run into student resistance in one form or another. —Anton Tolman We need to start seeing student resistance as a signal. —Anton Tolman When they’re resisting, they’re telling me something. —Anton Tolman A common error … is to believe that a lot of student resistance is because of the students themselves. —Anton Tolman Resources Mentioned Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students Edited by Anton O. Tolman and Janine Kremling Episode #169: The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux with Cathy Davidson SQ4R reading method Perry’s Scheme – Understanding the Intellectual Development of College-Age Students Episode #047: Developing metacognition skills in our students with Todd Zakrajsek No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson* Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Cathy O’Neil shares about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, on episode 170 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode This has very little to do with technical knowledge and everything to do with power. —Cathy O’Neil They think that because something is mathematical … it’s inherently more fair than a human process. —Cathy O’Neil There’s absolutely no reason to think that algorithms are inherently fair. —Cathy O’Neil It doesn’t make sense for all colleges to be measured by the same yardstick. —Cathy O’Neil There are ethical choices in every single algorithm we build. —Cathy O’Neil Resources Mentioned Weapons of Math Destruction* by Cathy O’Neil U.S. News and World Report: Best College Rankings Wall Street Journal / Times Higher Education College Rankings How Can We Stop Algorithms Telling Lies Big Data is Coming to Health Insurance Why We Need Accountable Algorithms Digital Redlining and Privacy with Chris Gilliard Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Cathy Davidson shares about her book, A New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux on episode 169 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We’ve divided things up into very strange and restrictive categories in a world where those categories are completely merged and mixed and changing every minute. —Cathy N. Davidson Every generation has some new technology which we’re convinced is going to destroy us. —Cathy N. Davidson I believe in being skeptical about technology and therefore learning how to use it well. —Cathy N. Davidson Resources The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy Davidson* How a Class Becomes a Community: Theory, Method, Examples (Cathy shares about class constitutions) Quizlet More or Less Technology in the Classroom? We’re Asking the Wrong Question, by Cathy Davidson in FastCompany Revolutionizing the University for the Digital Era, by Michael Roth in The Washington Post An Educator Makes the Case that Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up, by Craig Calhoun Design Learning Outcomes to Change the World, by Cathy N. Davidson American Colleges Will Fail Kids Without These Five Crucial Upgrades, by Pamela Swyn Kripke Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.

Teddy Svoronos talks about how to effectively use presentation tools in our teaching on episode 168 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode A real tech win to me is a device that both enhances the student experience and also reduces friction. —Teddy Svoronos Think very carefully about what will enhance the learning of the people watching the presentation. —Teddy Svoronos When we adopt technology, there are are two considerations: how valuable it is and how much friction is it going to introduce. —Teddy Svoronos Resources Mentioned Teddy was on: Mac Power Users 383 and Mac Power Users 319 Bonni was on: Mac Power Users 240 (workflow segment) Slide Docs via Nancy Duarte Slideuments via Garr Reyolds Apple Watch Poll Everywhere Simpsons – Star Wipes Example of one way Teddy used animations in explaining sampling distributions: deriving likelihoods Slideology* by Nancy Duarte Teddy’s post: In Praise of Goodnotes More from Teddy on Live Annotation of Student Work with Goodnotes Teddy’s post: A Good Day to Keynote Hard Apple Pencil Surface Pro* Surface Pen Doug McKee’s post: Teaching Online with Zoom, Duet Display, and PDF Expert Attendance2 Are You Enjoying the Show? Rate/review the show. Please consider rating or leaving a review for the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast on whatever service you use to listen to it on (iTunes, Stitcher, etc.). It is the best way to help others discover the show. Give feedback. As always, I welcome suggestions for future topics or guests. Subscribe. If you have yet to subscribe to the weekly update, you can receive a single email each week with the show notes (including all the links we talk about on the episode), as well as an article on either teaching or productivity.