ON Cultivating Student Engagement in Higher Ed

This podcast focuses on the perspectives of faculty work with specifications grading. The first two parts feature three College of Engineering faculty members: Nazim Karaca, a data engineer at the University of Delaware who helps human-subject researchers collect and manage their data, who also teaches computer programming and ethics at UD. Sheldon Hewlett, an Assistant Professor of Materials Scie...

This podcast focuses on the perspectives of faculty work with specifications grading. This second part of the series continues the conversation with three College of Engineering faculty members: Nazim Karaca, a data engineer at the University of Delaware who helps human-subject researchers collect and manage their data, who also teaches computer programming and ethics at UD. Sheldon Hewlett, an As...

In this second episode of Season 4, the new host Dr. Lauren Kelley, welcomes Vic Wang, director of noncredit professional programs for the University of Delaware’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies (UD PCS). Vic oversees the creation, management, and successful implementation of all online and face-to-face noncredit programs, certificates, workshops, conferences, and customized progr...

In this first episode of Season 4, the new host Dr. Lauren Kelley, an instructional designer in UD-IT Academic Technology Services (ATS) welcomes the UDCapture Team.  The UDCapture Team is also part of ATS and they are responsible for a suite of tools that allow faculty and students to create and share videos. This tiny team has oversight and coordination of automatic classroom capture for in-pers...

In this teaser trailer, the new host Dr. Lauren Kelley, an instructional designer in UD-IT Academic Technology Services (ATS) welcomes  ON - Cultivating Student Engagement in Higher Ed listeners to the new season.  She shares what you can expect from this reimagined podcast and promises ON listeners that they can expect to become better acquainted with support services available to them regardless...

In this episode, Katy Berkow shares exciting news about her new transition. She introduces her podcast successor and invites her listeners to get ready for an exciting new season! 📍Need the transcript for this episode? Access it here .

This episode focuses on how we can contribute to successful searches, with a focus on including candidates of all backgrounds. Dr. Lauren Vicker shares her expertise, published in The Complete Academic Search Manual, and includes some great ideas for sourcing and evaluating candidates and making sure new hires make connections after they join your team. 

Katy speaks with Em Rowe and Bri VanArsdale about gender inclusivity in the classroom and how it contributes to student success both in and out of the classroom. This episode starts with gender and leans into reducing barriers to learning for all of our students. 

Katy is back with co-executive producer for this mini-season, Dr. Amanda Bullough. They're excited to share two new episodes focused on inclusion and how it can generate engagement in the classroom. 

This very special episode of the podcast was recorded during a session of the Lerner College's Research & Teaching Showcase at the University of Delaware, coordinated by our Deputy Dean Dr. Sheryl Kline. Among other staff and faculty, Drs. Julia Bayuk, Andrea Everard, Ali Poorani, Max Dolinsky, and Amanda Bullough share practices that generate engagement. 

This episode is a rebroadcast of my second interview on one of my favorite podcasts, Tea for Teaching (https://teaforteaching.com/). I highly recommend Tea for Teaching, as I’ve learned so much from both the hosts John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare and their guests and implemented some of the ideas in my own classroom. This episode features our discussion of my experiential learning capstone courses,...

This episode is a rebroadcast of my interview on one of my favorite podcasts, Tea for Teaching (https://teaforteaching.com/). I highly recommend Tea for Teaching, as I’ve learned so much from both the hosts John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare and their guests and implemented some of the ideas in my own classroom. This episode features our discussion of the use of digital portfolios as a medium for stud...

Dr. Michael Posner, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Founding Director of the Center for Statistics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Villanova University, joins us to discuss motivating students with the meaning behind the material and inviting students into courses that generate fear (like statistics!)

Dr. Jennifer Joe, Whitney Family Professor of Accounting in the University of Delaware’s Accounting and Management Information Systems department, and Dr. Anu Sivaraman, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Delaware, join us to discuss their new course, Race in Business,  why it matters for our students to develop an awareness of bias, and how more faculty might begin to incorpora...

Dr. Wendy Smith, Professor of Management in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware and cofounder and co-director of the Women's Leadership Initiative, joins us to discuss why we should build community in our classrooms and how we can do it most speedily and effectively

I’m Kathryn Berkow and I’d like to introduce the second season of “ON” a podcast about cultivating student engagement in higher ed. This podcast celebrates that  “ON” feeling when students are learning in your classroom and the material is engaging, inclusive, and effective.  This season starts on September 13th and includes interviews with some of my role models for course excellence, a live pane...

A panel of University of Delaware students joins the podcast to discuss what's going well and how we can improve our courses as we move toward another semester of uncertainty and into the future; Shivani, Cara, and Ryan share their dos and don'ts for course design and student engagement as we look forward to 2021

Dr. Ellen Monk, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss the impact of dividing a large class session into smaller group meetings for asking and answering questions, working on practice exercises, and fostering a stronger sense of community in a virtual setting

Dr. Laura Gasiorowski, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss the creative exercises she uses to engage her students physically and mentally in on-campus classes and in her virtual classroom as well

Dr. Chanele Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss how she's implemented a new time management lesson for her students and how it makes space for our students' (and our own!) whole selves in the classroom

Dr. Mark Serva, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss Specifications Grading and how it has impacted students' motivation in his classes

Paige Gee, Instructor of Accounting at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss her strategies for engaging students during live sessions while remote teaching and the ways remote teaching has changed her plans for classroom engagement going forward

Erin Sicuranza, IT Project Leader and Course Designer at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss high impact practices for online course design and the elements of remote teaching that will impact our teaching in the future

I’m Katy Berkow and this is ON: a podcast about cultivating student engagement in higher ed. Instructors are always striving for those magic moments in the classroom when everything is just “ON”. More than ever, we can benefit from sharing the strategies that reach our students and evaluate learning most inclusively and effectively. This podcast features higher ed faculty and course designers usin...