Teaching in Higher Ed

Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I certainly wasn’t taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating. -Leslie Bayers We feel and think better when we move. -Leslie Bayers I try to...

Jennifer Baumgartner shares some lessons in love and learning from Mr. Rogers’ legacy on episode 579 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Mr. Rodgers was a very comforting influence as a young child. -Jennifer Baumgartner Moving slowly or taking your time is a very key theme of Mr. Rogers neighborhood, and also Fred Rogers’ life and the way he lived it. -Jennifer Bau...

Karen Costa describes learning to teach, design, and rest on episode 578 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Gardening is something I’ve tried and failed at many times. I don’t know if it’s something you can win or fail at. -Karen Costa There’s a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us. -Karen Costa T...

Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world. -Jessamyn Neuhaus Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies. -Jessamyn N...

Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode What’s going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we’re using it to mean, it’s that it doesn’t have a proper referent i...

Rolin Moe shares about rebuilding trust in the value of education (among other things) on episode 575 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions. – Rolin Moe Learning is a continuous ac...

Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually. -Alex Edmans What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where so...

Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Whenever I’m planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience. -Tolu Noah I don’t think there’s necessarily one right way to approach planning. -Tolu Noah A really importan...

Leon Furze shares about myths and metaphors in the age of generative AI on episode 572 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway. -Leon Furze We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students,...

Jackie Shay Shares about overcoming imposter syndrome through joyful curiosity on episode 571 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful. -Jackie Shay Why can’t we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence? -Jackie Shay It’s about sup...

Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think what happens with a lot of people’s efforts to tell stories is that they’re staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don’t have a form that they’re filling up....

Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe share a practical framework for ethical AI integration in assessment on episode 569 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context. -Mike Perkins One...

Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger discuss The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI on episode 568 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It is true that people cheat, and that’s the reason we have rules in the first place in our lives. -David Rettinger There are always going to be social, personal, and individual pressures on us that c...

Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you’re having to pay attention to and you’re switching between each one. -Therese Huston The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine i...

Eileen Camfield shares about Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 566 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I want to encourage folks to think about how vigor can go alongside rigor. -Eileen Camfield We really feel healed. We really feel like our suffering does not have to define us anymore. -Eileen Camfield Joy is a renewable resource because it does not ge...

Jamie Moore shares about embracing anger to find joyful agency on episode 565 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I was told that that if I showed emotion I would be seen as vulnerable, and my students would be ready to pounce on that vulnerability. -Jamie Moore Invisible agreements shadow our classroom interactions and curriculum, capping the potential for connection, fe...

John Warner shares about his latest book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI on episode 564 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If we treat the output of large language models as writing, as opposed to syntax generation, which is how I characterize it, then we’re allowing the meaning of writing and the experience of writing to be degraded f...

Dr. Sunita Sah discusses her book, Defy: The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes on episode 563 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Defiance is a practice, not a personality. -Dr. Sunita Sah Defiance is a skill that’s available and necessary for all of us to use. -Dr. Sunita Sah For many of us, the distance between who we think we are and what we actually...

Jesús Campos shares his story as an undocumented undergrad/grad student and ways to support others in their educational pursuits on episode 562 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode There is some guilt students have because they feel like they’re not really pulling their weight, or they’re sort of a burden because they’re not producing an income. -Jesús Campos Look at schol...

Stephanie Cawthon shares about her book, Disability Is Human – The Vital Power of Accessibility in Everyday Life, on episode 561 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We all have disability at one time or another, maybe just not right now. -Stephanie Cawthon I think that there is still a sense of surprise when a request is made for some kind of modification. -Stephani...

Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella discuss how to equip students to dialog across differences using an AI Guide they’ve created on episode 560 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they’ve been so siloed. -Simon Cullen In every one of these classes the point...

Lauren Barbeau + Claudia Cornejo Happel discuss how to cultivate critical teaching behaviors on episode 559 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you’re born with. It’s something you learn. It’s something you can get better at. -Lauren Barbeau Teaching doesn’t fall into nice, neat color coded...

Michelle Miller shares about her book, A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It’s Hard, How You Can, on episode 558 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can’t. -Michelle Miller We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that...

Kent Kauffman shares about his book, Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know, on episode 557 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Leave the things that you have full discretion on out of a syllabus. Put those things that allow you to show to your students that you care about clarity into a syllabus. -Kent Kauffman What have courts that have authorit...

Jasmine Roberts-Crews shares about socially just open education and Black feminist pedagogy on episode 556 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I’m focusing on Black women in particular here because there is a history among some Black women with rejecting the term feminism because there is this idea that feminism is for white women. -Jasmine Roberts-Crews What can we...