Teaching in Higher Ed

Karen Costa shares how role clarity and boundaries can help us thrive on episode 505 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I saw people being asked to, like, completely revamp their entire course and learn how to online, but nothing was removed from their plate. -Karen Costa So the first question I want folks to ask themselves is what are my qualifications in this role. -Ka...

Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniewicz share about Higher Education for Good on episode 504 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode People are in a state of despair. -Laura Czerniewicz Sometimes sets of values are at odds with the measuring systems in the university. -Laura Czerniewicz Little moments of glimmers of innovation, not in the business sense of the word, but in the...

Safary Wa-Mbaleka + Leni Casimiro share about their work in online higher education around the globe on episode 503 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode As we deal with our local contexts, we adjust according to the culture of the people and how they learn. -Leni Casimiro Eventually I went to study and get a degree in about online education, then it really became a part of...

Dave Cormier shares about his new book, Learning in a Time of Abundance, on episode 502 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I want you to include the word hate in front of learning styles and see what happens. -Dave Cormier It’s not about it being right or wrong. It’s about understanding where people are from. -Dave Cormier I value the headspace of a child whe...

Autumm Caines + Maya Barak help us with expanding our collective understanding of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 501 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It’s good to be skeptical. -Autumm Caines And I feel like a lot of times students sign up for all these accounts without reading the terms of service, without reading the privacy policy, without...

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni reflect on generous lessons from you on episode 500 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I am filled with gratitude today for all of the ways in which people have shared how this community has helped you to laugh boldly, cry openly, show up, think deeply, think again, be humble, connect generously, and amplify voices. -Bonni Stachowiak Let’s...

Will Hennessy shares about fostering neurodivergent learners’ growth on episode 499 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary, internal and external tics that occur repeatedly in the same way. OCD is a neurological disorder that causes problems with information processing. -Will Hennessy I honestly though...

Stein Brunvand talks about equipping educators to navigate artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 498 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode When a novice teacher might observe a more experienced teacher, they’re not always going to notice the kinds of decisions that the teacher is making that aren’t verbalized. -Stein Brunvand It’s not so much about learn...

Paul Galbally & Fevronia Christodoulidi discuss personalized learning pedagogies on episode 497 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The closer we get to each other, the more we understand each other. -Paul Galbally This course will make you uncomfortable. And if it doesn’t, we’re not doing our job. -Paul Galbally We get to know our students, and they get t...

Jennifer Coon talks about how to know our audience in an AI world on episode 496 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I’m always interested in talking with students about how they got to the point that they’re at today. -Jennifer Coon There is value in the blank slate. -Jennifer Coon Professors are the ones who are really training students to be the next econom...

Tolulope (Tolu) Noah shares about using QR codes to design engaging learning experiences on episode 495 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode QR codes can be used to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles, specifically in regards to providing multiple means of engagement and providing multiple means of representation. -Tolulope (Tolu) Noah If your students c...

Todd Zakrajsek shares about the ones who are too often left behind in higher education on episode 494 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I don’t want to see a person left behind. -Todd Zakrajsek I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons. -Todd Zakrajsek T...

Maha Bali exudes openness as a way of being on episode 493 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I don’t really know everything I have to say, but I’m willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it. -Maha Bali If people don’t have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they’ll just say they are fine. -Maha...

Mike Caulfield shares about Verified, which he co-authored with Sam Wineburg, on episode 492 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The real impact is that you have a number of people within a community that kind of keep other people in check. -Mike Caulfield The field of argumentation theory has provided illuminating insights. -Mike Caulfield I want you to have the tools to...

Stephen Bloch-Schulman talks about teaching through experiences on episode 491 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode When students tell me what they think their beliefs are, what I’m hearing is what they wish they believe, not what they believe. -Stephen Bloch-Schulman I think what we’re doing when we’re talking about beliefs is often just naming how we wi...

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni Stachowiak talk about navigating insecurity in teaching on episode 490 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode 20 years later and I still run into nervousness. The intensity and the kind of nervousness is different, and it often comes up in unsuspecting ways. -Dave Stachowiak How can you open the first 10 seconds of a class to capture attention, tell...

Lindsay Doukopoulos talks about teaching with artificial intelligence on episode 489 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Learning is exceptionally difficult to really assess in a meaningful way at scale. -Lindsay Doukopoulos Students are almost exactly at the same place that faculty are in terms of their skepticism and anxiety about these tools. -Lindsay Doukopoulos Learn...

Karen Costa shares about climate action pedagogy on episode 488 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Start where you are. -Karen Costa Some folks are starting to use these renewable resources like solar and wind to power servers. -Karen Costa Resources adrienne maree brown Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown Holding Change, by adrienne maree brown Pithari , example...

Ijeoma Nwaogu shares about her book on Overcoming Imposter Anxiety on episode 487 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We start to question ourselves, and that feeling is really uncomfortable. -Ijeoma Nwaogu One word that I use in the book is called imposterize. -Ijeoma Nwaogu It’s so valuable to be around diverse folks, folks who are different from you, but it&#8217...

Jenae Cohn speaks about design for learning on episode 486 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode At the core of any class we’re teaching, we have to think about how a student or a user is going to navigate through that experience. -Jenae Cohn I encourage a balance of getting some feedback from your students after the class is over and using the analytics within it to...

Pia Lauritzen shares how to use questions in new ways on episode 485 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We know that questions are extremely powerful. -Pia Lauritzen We actually use questions to distribute responsibility. -Pia Lauritzen Resources Pia Lauritzen’s website Questions: Brief Books About Big Ideas, by Pia Lauritzen What You Don’t Know About Questions (TEDx Tal...

Sarah Silverman shares an introduction to neurodiversity on episode 484 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode Autism is increasingly understood as a spectrum condition and experience. -Sarah Silverman It is important to reflect on your own educational journey. -Sarah Silverman Resources Instructors are learners too: Making faculty development accessible to faculty, by Sarah...

Jesse Stommel shares about Undoing the Grade on episode 483 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode For us to be talking about something like unlearning or ungrading, there’s an irony in that because we are the people who need to do that work the most and the people for whom that work is probably the hardest. -Jesse Stommel The only wrong way to do something is to do it...

Isis Artze-Vega and Oscar Miranda Tapia discuss Connections Are Everything on episode 482 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If it’s not working for you and you can’t maintain a certain level of wellness, then it’s not working. No matter what you’re seeing happen in your students, it is not working because it cannot happen at the cost of your well...

Derek Bruff shares about assignment makeovers in the AI age on episode 481 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Quotes from the episode The technologies at play in higher education changed dramatically in a very short amount of time, and that required us to kind of rethink what we were doing as teachers. -Derek Bruff For my course, I felt like it is fine to teach them to write using the AI tools a...