Teaching in Higher Ed

Eric Loepp discusses how he uses data to stimulate student learning on episode 192 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Beyond Polls: Using Science and Student Data to Stimulate Learning FiveThirtyEight New York Times Washington Post You Draw It: What Got Better or Worse During Obama’s Presidency Qualtrics Parks and Recreation

Ric Montelongo describes how he creates immersive learning experiences in online classes on episode 191 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If you experiment, look at what support your institution has to offer. —Ric Montelongo Technology isn’t limited to online classes. —Ric Montelongo Be very mindful of privacy — not everyone likes to be recorded. —Ric Montelongo Resources Mentioned Episode 163 with Stacy Jacob GoPro HERO6 Black* Roller Coaster Database Roller Coaster POV Ride GoPro Example Salsa, Soul, & Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age – Juana Bordas Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) SHSU Online SHSU Digital Education Summit Texas A&M University Galveston Campus & Hurricane Ike 2008 Hurricane Harvey Blog post for ACPA 2018 Convention Virtual Reality – CBS This Morning Planet Money podcast Marketplace podcast VoiceThread

Eddie talks about studying our teaching and his new book: Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* on episode 190 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We should take teaching … as seriously as we take researching. —C. Edward Watson Are students learning what we are trying to ensure that they learn? —C. Edward Watson Resources Mentioned Role immersion games in the higher ed classroom on Episode 21 with Mark Carnes in October of 2014 Minds on Fire, How Role-Immersion Games Transform College* by Mark Carnes Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices* by C. Edward Watson and Thomas Chase Hagood State of flow  Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate* by Ernest L. Boyer Published games: Reacting site at Barnard College High-Impact Educational Practices Association of American Colleges and Universities Meetings and Events Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virginia Tech Lilly Conferences Journal of Chemical Education Journal of Engineering Education   

Judith Boettcher shares her expertise designing online experiences for learners on episode 189 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Autonomy really means helping students have their own sense of self. —Judith Boettcher What we really want to do is structure experiences where we don’t have the answers. —Judith Boettcher Review your courses and see where you can take the answers out and put the challenges in. —Judith Boettcher The best way to check whether or not you understand something is to teach it to someone else. —Judith Boettcher Resources Mentioned ACUE 3 Ways to Enhance Your Online Instruction on ACUE’s “Q” Blog InstaPot The Making of an Expert Thinking Collaboratively: Learning in a Community of Inquiry* by D. Randy Garrison 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.

Anastasia Salter on episode 188 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast discusses designing inclusive games for the Higher Ed classroom. Quotes from the episode What comes out of it is what someone imagines. —Anastasia Salter The first thing to decide is why you are making the game. How do you want people to encounter this concept you have? —Anastasia Salter Start out trying to build the thing that brought you to games. —Anastasia Salter Resources Mentioned Thanks to John Stewart for Recommending Anastasia Salter as a Guest Jane Jenson Roberta Williams ReplyAll episode #105 At World’s End Animal Crossing games ProfHacker: Digital Distractions: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Shiro Dream Daddy Professor Layton Game Series Emotional Intelligence 2.0* by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves Porpentine (Game Designer) Twine (Software) With Those We Love Alive http://www.playthepast.org/ Keegan Long-Wheeler Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor* Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing, by Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett* Shippers/Shipping (Fandom) Steven Moffat Gamergate Rabid and Sad Puppies’ attacks on the Hugo Awards “Fake Geek Girls” Sherlock (BBC TV Series) 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.

Todd Zakrajsek discusses laptops – friend or foe? – on episode 187 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Laptops weren’t the problem to begin with — attention was the problem. —Todd Zakrajsek Banning the problem doesn’t change the attention to you — it changes it to something else. —Todd Zakrajsek We live in a better system of thinking than dichotomies. —Todd Zakrajsek You can’t ban bacon thoughts. —Todd Zakrajsek Resources Mentioned Paul Blowers on Episode 179 No laptops in the lecture hall, by Seth Godin Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness, by Christine Harrington and‎ Todd Zakrajsek* 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.

Eddie Watson shares about assessing the impact of open educational resources on episode 186 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Episode 137 – Eddie talked about Teaching Naked Techniques Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes by Antonio Bowen and‎ C. Edward Watson* OpenStax at Rice University National Survey of Student Engagement Chemistry – OpenStax U.S. History – OpenStax Salt Lake Community College’s research: Open Educational Resources and Student Course Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis by Jessie R Winitzky-Stephens and Jason Pickavance 2018 Annual Meeting: Can Higher Education Recapture the Elusive American Dream? Watson, C. E., Domizi, D., & Clouser, S. A. (2017). Student and faculty perceptions of OpenStax in high enrollment courses International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(5), 287-304. 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.

Christian Friedrich shares about privacy and safety in online learning on episode 185 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Privacy and safety are not the same thing. —Christian Friedrich Safety and privacy usually are contextual. —Christian Friedrich Notes Nishant Shah: Making Safe (you look different, gender is different, so let’s invent something that prevents people like you from being harassed) Keeping Safe Being Safe Safeguarding Feeling Safe: agency, negotiation, making learners (and teachers) stakeholders in the creation of their own safety Resources Mentioned OER17: Safety in Open Online Learning OEB16: Can we be safe in online learning? 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence: protecting your online privacy in 16 steps Sean Michael Morris – Not Enough Voices keynote I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy by Lori Andrews * Guardian article – I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets by Judith Duportail So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Paperback by Jon Ronson * Episode 18 of the ReplyAll podcast: Silence and Respect 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.

Pooja Agarwal discusses the science of retrieval practice on episode 184 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Resources Mentioned Lyle, K. B., & Crawford, N. A. (2011). Retrieving essential material at the end of lectures improves performance on statistics exams. Teaching of Psychology, 38(2), 94-97. Roediger III, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological science, 17(3), 249-255. Kromann, C. B., Bohnstedt, C., Jensen, M. L., & Ringsted, C. (2010). The testing effect on skills learning might last 6 months. Advances in health sciences education, 15(3), 395-401. Roediger III, H. L., Agarwal, P. K., McDaniel, M. A., & McDermott, K. B. (2011). Test-enhanced learning in the classroom: long-term improvements from quizzing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17(4), 382. Agarwal, P. K., Karpicke, J. D., Kang, S. H., Roediger, H. L., & McDermott, K. B. (2008). Examining the testing effect with open‐and closed‐book tests. Applied cognitive psychology, 22(7), 861-876. Retrieval Practice website

Robin DeRosa inspired us through open education on episode 183 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What is invisible to me about my teaching that could be better? —Robin DeRosa I had taught my students to devalue their work. —Robin DeRosa Open is not the opposite of private. —Robin DeRosa How do we need to build it differently to get different participation? —Robin DeRosa Resources Mentioned This American Life – Episode 511: The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About Bryan Alexander’s Podcast Favorites Jesse Stommel Sean Michael Morris Glisser iAnnotate Is Back to School Night Still Relevant? by Malikah Nu-Man Liks