Teaching in Higher Ed

Catherine Cronin discusses open education on episode 152 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Twitter has been a big part of my learning and my teaching. –Catherine Cronin One of my key roles is helping learners develop their voice and their agency. –Catherine Cronin Openness is always continuously negotiated. –Catherine Cronin We need to be willing to be criticized ourselves. –Catherine Cronin Having a personal learning network and being able to learn from each other is essential. –Catherine Cronin Resources Mentioned Catherine’s Philosophy: I practice openness by intentionally using and reusing OER, creating and sharing my work openly (learning, teaching and research), and teaching and modeling these open educational practices (OEP). But that’s just the what. The how requires much thought and care. I believe open educational practices can help to increase access to education, contribute towards democratising education, and help to prepare learners —in all contexts— for engaged citizenship in increasingly open, networked, and participatory culture. Martin Weller – open is both risky and vital  Henry Jenkins danah boyd Mizuko Ito Surveillance Capitalism Personal Learning Network (PLN) Vivian Rolfe collaborated with Catherine on the GoOPEN wiki Degrees of Openness / Degrees of Ease Four adjectives that describe open: Complex Personal Contextual Continuously negotiated http://wikieducator.org/GoOPEN Digital Storytelling 106 (DS106) course origins Contrafabulists podcast episode #52: Marginalia, on which Audrey Watters shares her decision to un-annotate her blog and her considerations to potentially change her CC license on her site. Catherine also encourages us to work on de-centering our northern epistemology. There are people working openly on all six continents. 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.

Kristen Eshleman explores meaningful measures of accountability on episode 151 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Are there ways we could be accountable for the things we value most? –Kristen Eshleman If we’re going to double down on outcomes-based assessment, are we going to end up designing learning for only the things that can be measured? –Kristen Eshleman Accept the vulnerability that allows for openness in learning. –Kristen Eshleman Teaching has to adjust and adapt. –Kristen Eshleman Resources TIHE episode with Laura Gogia: Connected Learning for the Curious Exploring Meaningful Measures of Accountability TIHE 007: Personal knowledge mastery TIHE Article: My Updated Personal Knowledge Management System W. Brian Arthur Keynote Speech: Combining Complexity Theory with Narrative Research with David Snowdon Harvard Business Review: A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making Santa Fe Institute: Complex Adaptive Systems Cynefin Framework SenseMaker Davidson Digital Learning R + D 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.

Bonni Stachowiak shares community members’ recommendations on episode 150 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Resources James Lang recommends What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain* Ken Bain – What the Best College Teachers Do on TIHE Episode 036 Beth Cougler-Blom recommends Coursera’s Learning How to Learn course from Barbara Oakley Check out Beth Cougler-Blom’s posts on Facebook Live: Part 1 and Part 2 Beth’s post about podcasts Beth’s blog Isabeau Iqbal recommends FitnessBlender Linda Oakleaf recommends The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Teaching College by Anthony D. Fredericks * Steven Michaels recommends the Teaching in Higher Ed Slack Group TIHE Episode 140 with Steven Michaels on Thinking Outside the LMS The Public Domain Review Ken Bain recommends Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang* VoiceThread (unofficial recommendation) 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.

Rebecca Hogue talks about giving voice and face to the illness experience on this episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Some people are inherent share people and other people aren’t. —Rebecca Hogue I’d rather you stumble with a good intention than not try at all. —Rebecca Hogue When you’re going through cancer, humor is a release. —Rebecca Hogue It’s humor in the moment that gets you through it. —Rebecca Hogue Resources Rebecca’s blog (livingpathography.org) One of Rebecca’s posts: It All Started … ShouldIBlog.org Rhizomatic Learning 14  David Elpern defines pathography as “a narrative that gives voice and face to the illness experience. It puts the person behind the disease in the forefront and as such is a great learning opportunity for all care givers and fellow sufferers.” There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love* by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell BAYS Anthology: Agony and Absurdity: Adventures in Cancerland: An Anthology* by Meaghan Calcari Campbell, Laurie Hessen Pomeranz, and Robin Bruns Worona Virtually Connecting Virtually Connecting ePatients 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.

Bronwyn Harris shares stories about students who were incredible, some of whom aren’t in our classrooms and some of whom are, on episode 148 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode These were all kids who had voices … but I wanted to amplify their voice. —Bronwyn Harris Kids will live up or down to your expectations. —Bronwyn Harris If we start thinking of all kids as our kids, things are going to be much better. —Bronwyn Harris Resources Literally Unbelievable by Bronwyn Harris* Serial Podcast Urban Promise Academy – Oakland Kevin Gannon on TIHE Episode #52, “Students aren’t our adversaries.”

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 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.

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* 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.