Teaching in Higher Ed

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 Yo...

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 Communi...

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 teac...

On this week’s episode, Sean Michael Morris and I discuss Critical Instructional Design. Guest: Sean Michael Morris Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and learning for 15 years. His work as a pioneer in the field of Critical Digi...

On today’s episode, Dr. Carl Moore and I have a dialog about proactive inclusivity. Guest: Dr. Carl Moore Dr. Moore is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Research Academy for Integrated Learning (RAIL) at University of DC. Prior to his current role he served as an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Education as well as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center a...

On this week’s episode, Dr. Thia Wolf shares about public sphere pedagogy. Guest: Thia Wolf Thia is a Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Experience Program at California State University, Chico, where she has worked since 1989. Prior to her appointment in the FYE program, she coordinated a variety of writing programs, including the first-year composition program and the writ...

Eight faculty share their failure stories on this special #100th episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. CV of Failures Johannes Haushofer’s CV of Failures HBR article about Johannes Haushofer Quotes At the time, I felt like I had to know everything in order to be a good teacher, so instead of admitting that I didn’t know the answer to the student’s question, I dismissed it. —Cameron Hunt-Mc...

Dr. Angela Jenks shares about her experiences encouraging accountability in her students on today’s episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Guest: Angela Jenks Angela is a medical anthropologist and Lecturer, PSOE (Tenure-Track Teaching Faculty) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also directs the M.A. in Medicine, Science, and Technology Stud...

Stephen Brookfield shares about his book, The Skillful Teacher, on today’s episode of Teaching in Higher Ed. Quotes I think I internalized early in my career that my job was to talk, to profess. And that if I wasn’t talking, then I really wasn’t earning my money. I still feel that, and I fight against it constantly. —Stephen Brookfield Skillful teaching is whatever helps students learn. —Ste...

Dustin Bakkie shares how to integrate effective study methods, learning tools, and personal management techniques as a part of your curriculum. Guest: Dustin Bakkie Lecturer at California State University, Chico email: dbakkie @ csuchico dot edu website: EpicHigherEd.com (coming soon) twitter: @dustinbakkie Quotes The best time to learn something is right as you’re about to forget it. —Dustin Bakk...

On today’s episode, I have the honor of talking with Dr. Jeff Wiese about how he uses coaching skills in his teaching of residents. Guest: Dr. Jeff Wiese Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, is a Professor of Medicine with Tenure, and the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. He is also Associate-Chairman of Medicine, the Chief of the Charity Medica...

In this week’s episode, Mike Truong and I discuss teaching in the digital age. Quotes In our instant and very distracted culture … it’s critical to learn how to pay attention. —Mike Truong As faculty, we need to find ways that force us to slow down. —Mike Truong I try to prioritize in-person interactions over virtual ones whenever possible. —Mike Truong It is a real discipline to turn off our devi...

On today’s episode, I get the pleasure of talking with Dr. Pooja Agarwal about retrieval practice. Guest: Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph. D. Cognitive Scientist, Memory Expert, and Education Consultant, Founder of RetrievalPractice.org www.retrievalpractice www.poojaagarwal.com Twitter: @poojaagarwal Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph. D. is committed to bridging the gaps between research, teaching, and policy. Passionat...

Natalie Houston talks about strength through habits. Quotes Habits save us tremendous time and energy, but they can also lead us to doing a lot of things mindlessly. —Natalie Houston Sometimes we have goals or intentions that are outdated, they’re from who we used to be. —Natalie Houston Habits often work really well when they’re connected to each other. —Natalie Houston If you successfully create...

On this week’s episode, James Lang shares about his book: Small Teaching Quotes What I started to notice was that the coaches who paid attention to these little things, and focused on small fundamentals, tended to do a lot better than the teams that didn’t. —James Lang I’m a big believer in the opening and closing minutes of class … I think those are really ripe opportunities for small teach...

On this week’s episode, I share my experiences with “choose your own adventure” assessments. Background on choose your own adventure assessments: TIHE Episode 58: Universal design for learning What is it? TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 1) TIHE blog post: Choose your own adventure learning (Part 2) Resources App: Scannable * by Evernote Recommendation Pet...

On this week’s episode, Todd Zakrajsek and I discuss our key take-aways from the 2016 Lilly Conference. Guest: Todd Zakrajsek Conference Director, Lilly Conferences California Twitter:  @ToddZakrajsek www.lillyconferences.com Dr. Todd Zakrajsek, Ph. D., is the former Executive Director of the Academy of Educators in the School of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Famil...

On today’s show, Betsy Barre joins me to share about the research on course evaluations. Guest: Betsy Barre Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University After making the move to Rice in 2012, she was able to pursue her interest in undergraduate pedagogy by working with students and faculty in Rice’s newly developed Program in Writing and Communication. In this...

On this week’s episode, Dave and I share our top five gadgets for teaching. Guest: Dave Stachowiak Bonni’s twitter: @bonni208 Dave’s twitter: @davestachowiak 1. Wireless presentation Remote Commonly referred to as a “ wireless presenter ”* Logitech remotes * are reliable and fairly inexpensive Video Downloader 2. iPad Pro iPad Pro specs iPad Pro on Amazon * iPad pro case from Sena 3. Apple Pencil...

On today’s episode, I talk with Sean Michael Morris about what the best digital teachers do. Sean Michael Morris, Digital Teacher and Pedagogue www.seanmichaelmorris.com Twitter: @slamteacher Sean is a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in networked learning, MOOCs, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. He’s been working in digital teaching and lear...

Bonni shares strategies to help “get it together” during stressful times of the semester. Quotes Never succumb to the temptation to say you don’t have enough time to stop. —Bonni Stachowiak Listening might be the most important part of our jobs. —Bonni Stachowiak Sometimes we’re so worried about entertaining our students that we miss the opportunities for them to have creative insights of their ow...

In today’s episode, Dr. Bill Robertson introduces us to “action science” and the ways he is making his teaching relevant, creating opportunities for the most active kind of learning I can imagine. Guest: Bill Robertson Dr. Skateboard Bill has a Ph. D. in Education and has been a skateboarder for over thirty-five years. He has done hundreds of demonstrations nationally and internationally in festiv...

Doug Leigh on helping graduate students come up with interesting research topics. Dr. Doug Leigh earned his PhD in instructional systems from Florida State University, where he served as a technical director of projects with various local, state, and federal agencies. His current research, publication, and lecture interests concern cause analysis, organizational trust, leadership visions, and disp...

Tim Clydesdale talks about how we can all better support our students in navigating college and beyond by talking about vocation. Quotes [Vocation] is about the type of life you want to lead and the type of person you want to be. —Tim Clydesdale It may be that the broader sense of who you are isn’t being fully expressed in your work but it’s being expressed in many other places: in your volunteer...

Doug Grove discusses practical program development: what works and what doesn’t when building learning experiences for today’s students. Quotes We see a lot of benefits of synchronous class sessions, but we’re not sure every student wants that. There’s a tradeoff with flexibility. -Doug Grove One of the mistakes we made when developing some of these programs was trying to be all things to all stud...