Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about how to capture it all, so we can have lower stress and not have things fall through the cracks. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Dave Stachowiak What is capture? David Allen’s Getting Things Done Why capture? Other-generated capture Inboxes Have as many as necessary and no more Academics inboxes Email Phone- office line Phone-other Inbox office Inbox home Inbox b...

On today’s episode, I talk about all that cannot be seen. Photo by Jim Frazee of Southwest Search Dogs. Used with permission (he’s my Dad).   Podcast notes Mystery commercial that I really hope someone can find and send to me Augmented reality How Stuff Works explains augmented reality Mashable’s augmented reality stories Yik yak chat service (For reasons explained in the podcast,...

It is easy to want to cover up in some way as professors… In today’s episode, President Jose Antonio Bowen encourages us to become good at “Teaching Naked.” Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Jose Antonio Bowen , President, Goucher College Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning Recommendations (part 1) This episode, we start with Bonni’s...

There’s something wrong with the way we’re grading that isn’t being talked about nearly enough. On today’s show, Dr. Linda Nilson shares about a whole new way of thinking about assessing students’ work and making grades mean more. Podcast Notes Dr. Linda B. Nilson Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource f...

Fears and concerns over changes in higher education persist. Whether it is our disdain for lecturing to a bunch of disconnected, texting and Facebooking students, or their boredom at being put to sleep by a droning professor reading from his powerpoint, something’s got to give… In today’s episode, Dr. Cathy Davidson joins us to talk about finding the right practice, and the right tools, and being...

Getting students engaged in research is one of the ways we can make their learning experiences more tangible and more profound. In today’s episode, Dr. Bethany Usher joins us to talk about what happens when we turn students into scholars. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Bethany M. Usher Bethany’s TEDx talk: Preparing Students for the World Through Undergraduate Research Bethany on Twitter Stu...

Educational technology that is designed “with the brain in mind” can be a catalyst in facilitating learning. On today’s episode, Dr. Michelle Miller draws from her research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology and shows us how to facilitate learning for minds online. Podcast notes Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology How do we use our memory resources to process information Study...

It seems that the larger classes get, the more distant our students can seem. On today’s episode, Dr. Chrissy Spencer helps us discover how to make large classes interactive. Even if you teach classes of 20, the resources she uses in her classes as large as 200+ will be of benefit. Podcast notes Guest: Dr. Chrissy Spencer , teaches at  Georgia Tech Ph. D., Genetics, University of Georgia Active le...

When we get creative with what we assign students, we open up a whole new set of possibilities for student engagement and learning. On today’s episode, Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb helps us discover how to craft creative assignments that facilitate learning well. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Cameron Hunt McNabb Her bio and university web page Recommended as a guest by past Teaching in Higher Ed guest: Dr. J...

It is such a crucial part of what we do as professors… Getting students involved in discussions and helping to facilitate their learning. Dr. Jay Howard joins me on this episode to talk about how to engage students in the classroom and online. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Jay Howard Engaging Your Students Face-to-Face and Online (July 2015) (Jossey-Bass) Garner multiple intelligences theory Socio...

Dr. Guy Trainin joins me for episode 22 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about using iPads and tablets in the classroom. Podcast Notes Guest Dr. Guy Trainin Bio Blog On Twitter TechEdge on Pinterest TechEdge on YouTube: iPads in the Classroom Life in the classroom before the iPad iPad integration in a higher ed classroom Padlet Exit Ticket Socrative When the professor has invested, but...

Students voting to extend the class time? Professors reporting that students are doing the reading for the course without threats or other forms of coercion? Today, in episode 21, Dr. Mark Carnes joins me to talk role immersion games in the higher ed classroom. Podcast notes Dr. Mark C. Carnes , Professor of History, Barnard College Author of Minds on fire how role immersion games transform colleg...

In this episode, Dave Stachowiak joins me to answer community questions. Podcast notes Bonni gives an update on lessons from cheating lessons episode with James Lang Community Questions Gilbert asks: How do I engage students in discussion boards? WordPress.com A domain of one’s own  ( talked about on episode 18 with Audrey Watters ) Use different mediums to mix it up each week Engage in some...

Catching a student cheating can evoke all sorts of feelings: frustration, disappointment, anger, ambivalence. In episode 19 of Teaching in Higher Ed, Dr. James M. Lang joins me to talk about lessons learned from cheating. Podcast notes Our reactions to cheating Disheartening experience Feels personal You’re the last thing on their mind. When a student is cheating… their cheating isn&#8...

Audrey Watters joins me for episode 18 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast to talk about how technology is changing higher education. Podcast notes Audrey Watters on Twitter Kassandra in Greek mythology Kassandra on Urban Dictionary Alan Levine @CogDog University of Mary Washington’s Maker Space The mythology Science and technology obsession We tend to not look at the past very well, in con...

Guest Dr. Janine Utell Bio Blog Profile on Academia.edu Study your own teaching Be a reflective practitioner Collect data on yourself Involve the students Teaching is something that is happening all of the time. – Dr. Janine Utell Bonni used Remind service/app to connect with her students to see if the song sung at the start of this This American Life episode was still in their heads, the da...

Biology, the brain, and learning Guest Dr. Joshua Eyler, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University His Bio on Rice University’s Center for Teaching Excellence His Blog Follow Josh Eyler on Twitter Initial interest in the field of teaching and learning as a scientific enterprise What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain Brain-based learning Amazing discoveries, but s...

The reading has been assigned. You have prepared the questions, in advance. As you ask them, you are met by blank stares. This week on Teaching in Higher Ed: How to get students to participate in discussion with Dr. Stephen Brookfield. Podcast notes My guest this week is Dr. Stephen Brookfield. His career has spanned decades, with a focus on helping those of us in higher ed more effective at facil...

Dave and I talk about how to deal with students that we perceive as difficult, engaging them in the learning experiences in higher ed. Podcast notes Engaging difficult students in higher ed Guest: Dave Stachowiak Dave and I talk about how to engage students that we perceive as difficult. We start by describing the dangers in labeling people as difficult. Be cautious about focusing on the more chal...

Help classrooms become worthy of human habitation… a dialog with Chip Espinoza on generational cohorts, specifically millennials. Podcast notes Generations “We aren’t saying that all these people are the same, just because they are the same age.” “My desire is not to have a conversation about millennials, but have a conversation with millennials. I don’t want to...

It that season again: A lot of new faces and a lot of new names. How to get better at learning students’ names.   Podcast notes How to get better at learning names Dave and I talk about the approaches we use to learn students’ names. Attendance2 iphone app on iTunes (iOS) There is an iPad app, in addition to the iPhone app, but they don’t sync/connect with each other. It is best...

It can be stressful to head back into another year of teaching in higher ed. However, there certainly are actions we can take to make our experience more peaceful and be more present for our students as we get our new academic year underway. Our foci for the Fall Sandie and I share about where we are focused for the start to our academic year. We both have very different roles at the university, b...

It is going to take creative collaboration to better equip college students to develop 21st century skills. My guest, Jeff Hittenberger, has worked in higher ed, K-12; in the U.S. and abroad; and as a teacher and as an administrator. His unique perspective helps us think about how to prepare our students in higher ed for tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities. Inspiration from childhood in...

Librarians can be such a wonderful resource to us as faculty. Today’s guests are Georgia Tech Academic Librarians: Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro . They  have been a tremendous help to me – and I’ve never even met them in person. Call it a testament to the power of academic personal knowledge management… Episode 9: Academic personal knowledge management These are the notes...

Enough with the hypothetical. Now we share what tools we use in our personal knowledge management systems. Podcast notes This episode walks through each of the phases of a personal knowledge management system and the tools we each use for each step. Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.     Personal knowledge management definition “Dis...