Teaching in Higher Ed

Katie Linder shares about blended course design on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 113. Quotes from the episode Blended learning is not just a trend, and we’re starting to see technology integrated in really intentional ways. —Katie Linder One of the key things is alignment … between what you’re doing outside of the classroom and inside of the classroom. —Katie Linder Say to your students, “I’m going to give you an activity to do, and I’m going to lay out some guidelines for it, but I’m also going to give you quite a lot of freedom. —Katie Linder In the online environment,  [social interactions] can still happen, but they just need to happen more intentionally. —Katie Linder There are ways that you can build in social presence activities into a blended classroom, both face-to-face and online, that are really encouraging interactions between you and your students and between your students and each other. —Katie Linder Because we don’t naturally reflect, it means that we have to intentionally build in reflection for our students. —Katie Linder Resources Mentioned Blended Course Design Resources: Book site: The blended course design workbook website Order the book: The blended course design workbook (discount code = BCD20) Book handouts: The blended course design workbook handouts Handout: Aligned Blended Course Mapping Handout: Weekly Course Design Task List Handout: Choosing LMS Tools Checklist Handout: Template for Mapping Content and Documents Other Resources: How to Design and Teach a Hybrid Course* by Jay Caulfield Michael Sandel’s Justice course Goosechase for scavenger hunts Journal Keeping* by Dannelle D. Stevens and Joanne E. Cooper Checklists Use checklists to teach more effectively and efficiently in higher ed Grant Wiggins’ How do you plan? On templates and instructional planning Episode 078: The power of checklists 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.

Kevin Gannon discusses Radical Hope – A Teaching Manifesto on Teaching in Higher Ed #112. Quotes 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 Teaching is a radical act of hope. —Kevin Gannon We work with the future, and that’s a really incredible responsibility. —Kevin Gannon Resources Episode 052: Respect in the Classroom Moonwalking with Einstein* by Joshua Foer Blog: Radical Hope – A Teaching Manifesto Blog: Radical Hope – A Teaching Manifesto (Hypothes.is annotated version) APM Marketplace podcast  Storify 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.

Gardner Campbell on the higher ed horizon. Gardner was previously featured on show on Episode 107: Engaging learners Resources Virtually Connecting New Media Consortium The 2016 Horizon Report: Higher Ed Book: Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science* by Michael Nielsen Questions about the New Media Faculty-Staff Development Seminar Awakening the Digital Imagination: A Networked Faculty-Staff Development Seminar New Media Faculty Development Seminar 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.

Robert Talbert on self-regulated learning and the flipped classroom. Quotes My view about teaching changed completely when I started having kids. —Robert Talbert You can’t say that you are interested in teaching students how to learn and then spoon-feed them everything. —Robert Talbert Resources Article: The inverted calculus course and self-regulated learning Article: The Inverted Calculus Course: Using Guided Practice to Build Self-regulation Article: We need to produce learners, not just students Recommendations Bonni: The Clarify software no longer exists. 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 on how the best communicators add a sense of the unexpected to their teaching. Resources Glynn Washington at Snap Judgment LIVE! in Ann Arbor: “The Golden Man” “Times for telling,” introduced to me by Derek Bruff on TIHE episode 71 “A time for telling…” by Daniel L. Schwartz and John D. Bransford Listener Questions Questions from Ari Purnama Day one introductions TIHE blog post: Sticky notes as a teaching tool International education TIHE episode 080: International Higher Education in the 21st Century (featuring Mary Gene Saudelli from Dubai) TIHE episode 038: Steve Wheeler talks Learning with ‘e’s TIHE episode 108: Collaboration (featuring Maha Bali from Egypt) Takeaways Video: How do you enjoy life, as the world burns? Alex Blumberg’s podcast: StartUp Season 1: episode 1

Maha Bali shares about collaboration. Quotes The reason virtual collaboration works really well is that there’s usually no hierarchy with the person you’re working with. —Maha Bali If you want your students to collaborate, the main role of the educator is to provide them with something where collaboration is valuable. —Maha Bali Virtually collaborating brings the conversations to people who can’t be there in person. —Maha Bali If you want to keep learning, I think collaboration is necessary because you need to learn from somebody and with somebody. —Maha Bali Resources Rhizomatic learning The MOOC that community built Soundtrack to the collaborative play Virtually Connecting MLA Commons: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities (Concepts, models, and experiments) MLA Commons: Collaboration Keyword 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.

Gardner Campbell talks about engaging learners. Quotes Learning is an enormously powerful and eventful kind of experience. —Gardner Campbell Recognize that great ideas of all kinds come from all kinds of people at all stages of their knowledge. —Gardner Campbell There are some great ideas that are forever closed off to an expert because he or she is simply too conditioned by prior learning. —Gardner Campbell Resources Seymour A. Papert’s books APGAR for class meetings by Gardner Campbell Derek Bruff reflects on Gardner Campbell’s APGAR test for class meetings Book: Smart Mobs* by Howard Rheingold Video: Mr. Hand from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” Song: Peter Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill PHPBB Discussion Forum Book: Where Good Ideas Come From* by Steven Johnson Hacking the Academy 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.

On this episode, Dr. Mike Cross is an undercover professor.   Guest: Mike Cross Professor at Northern Essex Community College Read more in a Chronicle article about Mike Resources EasyBib Bacon Board Gamers Game: Escape Room Game: Rattlesnake Game: Loopin’ Louie Game: Loopin’ Chewie Book: My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student* by Rebekah Nathan 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.

Today’s guest, Dr. McClain Watson, at University of Texas at Dallas, advocates for the importance of our students being able to: “ convince people in the professional world that they 1) know what they’re doing, 2) can be trusted, and 3) are interesting to be around?” On today’s episode: Professional Online Portfolios. Guest: McClain Watson Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Business Communication Programs Organizations, Strategy and International Management Bio: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/faculty/john-watson Resources Episode 101: Public sphere pedagogy with Thia Wolf Going public with our learning What are POPs? A Domain of One’s Own on UMW site University of Wisconsin – Stout rubric for assessment e-portfolios Sample portfolios http://danyalahmed93.wix.com/portfolio http://andreacastanedae.wix.com/andycastaneda http://olasaleh.weebly.com/ http://nathanblumenthal.weebly.com/ http://luzechanove.wix.com/misitio http://thomasjmckee.com/ http://guohaoyue1990.wix.com/howardguomusic http://edq130030.wix.com/elainequayle http://adrianhovelman.wix.com/pop2 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.

On this week’s episode, Dave and I discuss disability accommodations and other listener questions. 1) Disability accommodations Dyslexia simulator Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism* 2) Online scenario manager resource Geogebra.org Geogebra – Spreadsheet View 3) Preparation for getting doctorate degree Julie Wilson’s bio www.Lynda.com www.Zotero.org 4) “Small” approaches to reclaiming teaching as a focus TIHE 092: Small Teaching (James Lang) www.doodle.com The Lean Startup* by Eric Ries Leading Change* by John Kotter Six ways to improve your department’s teaching climate 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.