
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

Apr 6, 2017 • 52min
Racial Identity in the Classroom
Stephen Brookfield discusses racial identity in the classroom on episode 147 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
For the first half of my life I was race blind.
–Stephen Brookfield
I was colluding in a system and in practices that reinforced racism without consciously being aware of this.
–Stephen Brookfield
Most white people grow up with these elements in their consciousness but are unaware that they’re there.
–Stephen Brookfield
We’re here to challenge, rather than to reassure.
–Stephen Brookfield
We know that we’ll have been successful when … some of our comfortable assumptions are being questioned.
–Stephen Brookfield
Resources
TIHE15: How to get students to participate in discussion with Stephen Brookfield
TIHE98: The Skillful Teacher with Stephen Brookfield
The Skillful Teacher by Stephen Brookfield*
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
A Conversation with My Black Son, a New York Times OpEd Video
Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism by Shannon Sullivan*
Eduard C. Lindeman
Michel Foucault
Derald Wing Sue’s books*
Videos of Derald Wing Sue
Presumed Incompetent by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris*
TIHE123: Presumed Incompetent with Yolanda Flores Niemann
Stephen Covey on Trust
The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill*
David Bohm
www.todaysmeet.com
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Mar 30, 2017 • 31min
James Lang and Ken Bain on Motivation in the Classroom
James Lang interviews Ken Bain about motivation in the classroom on episode 146 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It’s the question that the goal entails that becomes so driving for the students.
–Ken Bain
Students are most likely to take a deep approach to their learning when they’re trying to answer questions.
–Ken Bain
Teach less, better.
–Ken Bain
We are currently interested in certain questions because we were once interested in another question.
–Ken Bain
Resources Mentioned
James Lang was previously on Teaching in Higher Ed on:
Episode 19: Cheating Lessons
Episode 92: Small Teaching
Ken Bain was previously on Teaching in Higher Ed on:
Episode 36: What the Best College Teachers Do
Small Teaching* by James Lang
Ken’s books *
James’s books*
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Mar 23, 2017 • 26min
When Things Will Just Have to Do
Bonni Stachowiak shares about when things will just have to do on episode 145 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
Podcast Answer Man: Equipment
Apple AirPods
TIHE episode 117: The Balancing Act with Kerry Moore
How to Create a Pencast
Retrieval Practice Website
Retrieval Practice Tools
Sabbatical Beauty
She Was in a Hippity Hopity Mood: BBC Reporter Breaks Silence
Teaching Naked* by Jose Bowen
Getting Things Done* by David Allen
Patreon
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Mar 16, 2017 • 40min
Digital Literacy – Then and Now
Bryan Alexander shares about digital literacy – then and now – on episode 144 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Most of us were not trained in participatory media, and we haven’t really integrated that into our teaching.
—Bryan Alexanderhttps://teachinginhighered.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=e0b1dd6dc9
A key part of digital literacy in the social age is that it is productive. We make stuff.
—Bryan Alexander
Technical skills are an unavoidable part of digital literacy.
—Bryan Alexander
The way we’ve constructed the mobile experience is often apart from the web.
—Bryan Alexander
Resources Mentioned
Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC
Web 2.0 and Emergent Multi-literacies
Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
”Creating a digital literacy report: The survey piece, Part 1” by Bryan Alexander
Doug Belshaw
Laura Gibbs – Teaching with Canvas Blog
LinkedIn
Pinterest
A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
Pinboard.in
Diigo
The Idle Words blog
”Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online” by Brooke Donald
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
We Make the Road by Walking* by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
Future Trends in Technology and Education, Bryan’s newsletter
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Mar 9, 2017 • 32min
Keeping Evergreen As Professors and Educators
Teresa Soro provides ideas on how we can keep evergreen as professors and educators on episode 143 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
No brain is very smart alone.
–Teresa Soro
You go from being the expert to being the one facilitating the learning.
–Teresa Soro
We need to let go of control — it’s their learning.
–Teresa Soro
I can have great thoughts on my own, but they always get better with others.
–Teresa Soro
I think it’s important to be able to allow a little bit more room for mistakes and creativity.
–Teresa Soro
Resources Mentioned
Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
HMI Chat on Twitter
TIHE episode 115: Digital Citizenship with Autumm Caines
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Mar 2, 2017 • 36min
Rethinking Assessment (and other reflections on the Lilly Conference)
Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about rethinking assessment and other reflections on the Lilly Conference on episode 142 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Curiosity is one of our most deeply rooted mechanisms by which we learn.
–Josh Eyler
These experiences give people a different view of themselves.
–Thia Wolf
We don’t give students opportunities to experience and reflect on how the curriculum is part of them and how they are affecting it.
–Thia Wolf
Resources Mentioned
Bonni Stachowiak’s and Naomi Kasa’s Lilly Conference Presentation
TIHE 65: Teaching Lessons from Pixar
Specifications Grading by Linda B. Nilson*
TIHE 29: Specifications Grading
”An update on the specifications grading process” by Robert Talbert
TIHE 101: Public Sphere Pedagogy with Thia Wolf
Stephen Brookfield’s slides from his talk: ”Five Forms of Becoming a Teacher”
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Feb 23, 2017 • 34min
The Danger of Silence
Clint Smith warns us of the danger of silence on episode 141 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I was failing to speak up on behalf of issues that didn’t directly affect me, and that caused me a deep amount of shame.
–Clint Smith
What does it look like to be more proactive in being the sort of person that I’m asking my students to be?
–Clint Smith
What is the role and responsibility of someone given access to a platform of potential power and influence?
–Clint Smith
There’s a difference between a sort of silence of complicity and a silence of listening. I think it’s important that we differentiate and disentangle the two.
–Clint Smith
We need to think about the ways in which our identities shape whether or not we should be speaking or listening.
–Clint Smith
The act of empathy and the act of listening … is going to be more important now than ever.
–Clint Smith
I believe deeply in the fact that I am a partner in my students’ academic journey.
–Clint Smith
Resources Mentioned
TED Talk – How to Raise a Black Son in America
This Viral Trump Syllabus Will Help You Understand How the Mess Was Made
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data
TED Talk: The Danger of Silence
Glynn Washington (from the Snap Judgment podcast) shared about contextualizing people’s stories when he spoke at the Podcast Movement conference.
Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
The Four Principles:
read critically
write consciously
speak clearly
tell your truth
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Feb 16, 2017 • 39min
Thinking Outside the LMS
Steven Michels helps us think outside the LMS on episode 140 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Every technology suggests how it should be used.
–Steven Michels
The hub of any class should be the discussion board.
–Steven Michels
Teaching should be learner-driven, not tool-driven.
–Steven Michels
Technology is better at bringing the world into the classroom than it is in taking the classroom out into the world.
–Steven Michels
Anything we can do as faculty members and professors to harness this natural love of learning that our students have … I think is a good thing.
–Steven Michels
Resources Mentioned
Patterns in Course Design: How instructors ACTUALLY use the LMS
Using Slack for Teaching (Steven Michels’ video)
Slack
Hypothes.is
QuickTime
SnagIt
Google Slides
Google Sites Page: Foundations of Political Thought
Remind
Diigo
Medium
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Feb 9, 2017 • 39min
Effective Debriefing Approaches
Stephanie Lancaster shares ways to effectively debrief with our students on episode 139 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The role of any educator is to be there for their students: someone to talk to and lean on, or just to be with in times of need.
–Stephanie Lancaster
I learned the power of reflection in teaching and learning.
–Stephanie Lancaster
Debriefing is the process of strategically examining and analyzing what happened after the completion of an event or activity, within the context of learning.
–Stephanie Lancaster
What’s your big takeaway, and how does that connect to what you’re going to be doing in the real world?
–Stephanie Lancaster
The biggest challenge is that my students tend to want to talk just to me … really what I want them to do is to talk to each other.
–Stephanie Lancaster
Resources Mentioned
Epilogue – Stephanie’s blog post about her dad’s care after his diagnosis
The 3D model of debriefing: defusing, discovering, and deepening:
Pre-briefing
Diffusing
Discovering
Deepening
Wrap Up
TIHE episode 98: Stephen Brookfield – The Skillful Teacher
TIHE episode 15: Stephen Brookfield – How to Get Students to Participate in Discussion
The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom* by Stephen Brookfield
Discussion as a Way of Teaching: Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms * by Stephen Brookfield
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Feb 2, 2017 • 47min
Yes, Digital Literacy, But Which One
Mike Caulfield prescribes a new digital literacy on episode #138 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Resources Mentioned
American Association of State Colleges and University’s (AASCU’s) The American Democracy Project (ADP)
Mike’s Blog Post: Yes, Digital Literacy, But Which One?
RADCAB
CRAAP
Article about Sam Winberg: Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online
Thinking Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman
Planet Money Podcast Episode 739 – Finding The Fake-News King
Snopes
Politifact
SciCheck