Teaching Innovations in Sport Management

This episode explores approaches to preparing students to be sport management researchers and how to prepare sport management professionals to use research in decision making. Host: Dr. Jessica Braunstein-Minkove, Associate Professor, Sport Management, Guests: Dr. Beth Cianfrone, Associate Professor, Sport Management Jackson Sears, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of North Carol...

In this episode, we explore how to develop project-based learning and industry oriented cases for sport management classes from concept to completion.  Dr. Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College Guests: Dr. Michael Odio, Associate Professor, Sport Administration Dr. David Kelly, Professor and Graduate Chair, Sport Administration, University of Cincinnati  Follow us on Instagr...

In this episode,  the conversation centers on how to encourage students to develop a critical consciousness regarding power and social forces of inequities, using knowledge to inform decision-making and problem-solving. Host: Dr. Joseph N. Cooper, Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration and founding Executive Director of the New Balance Institute for Innovative Lea...

In this episode, the use of sport films as a tool in helping students access critical sociological concepts and issues around identity are discussed.  Host: Dr. Ryan King-White, Ph. D., Professor, Sport  Management, Towson University Guest: Dr. Patrick Crowe, Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Winston-Salem University Dr. Vincent Peña, Assistant Professor, Journalism and Sports Communication,...

In this episode, the discussion focuses on how to refocus curriculum design from course content to outcomes with consideration given to practitioner insights. Host: Dr. Joseph N. Cooper, Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration and founding Executive Director of the New Balance Institute for Innovative Leadership in Sport (I2LS), University of Massachusetts (UMass)...

This episode takes on two related issues that are central to sport management education. The first is how professors reflect on and assess their own teaching. The second is what support do sport management professors need in balancing the demands of teaching, scholarship, and service. Host: Dr. Joseph N. Cooper, Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sport Leadership and Administration and founding...

This episode takes on two related issues that are central to sport management education. The first is how professors reflect on and assess their own teaching. The second is what support do sport management professors need in balancing the demands of teaching, scholarship, and service. Host: Dr. Michael Odio, Associate Professor, Sport Administration, University of Cincinnati Guest: Dr. Ashley Ryde...

In this episode, the value of professional learning communities in sport management (or across disciplines) where faculty members come together to discuss and evaluate in real time what is happening in their own classes and share support and insights with colleagues. Host: Dr. Jessica Braunstein-Minkove, Associate Professor, Sport Management, Towson University Guests: Dr. Beth Cianfrone, Associate...

In this episode, insights are shared on meeting students where they are at in their academic journeys. Further consideration is given to being present for students and conscious of the need for real-time adjustments day to day, week to week, and year to year to best serve evolving student perspectives and needs and subject matter.  Host: Dr. Joseph N. Cooper, Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of S...

In this episode, the focus is on elevating student experience in sport management through the use of high impact practices and design thinking.  Host: Dr. Michael Odio, Associate Professor, Sport Administration, University of Cincinnati Guests: Dr. Jessica Braunstein-Minkove, Associate Professor, Sport Management, Towson University Dr. David Pierce, Professor & Chair, Tourism, Event, and Sport...

In this episode, the focus is on a specific type of high-impact practice, sport management-themed living-learning communities (LLC). Insights are shared on factors to consider when creating an LLC; its benefits for students, programs, and campuses; and optimal conditions that increase the likelihood of sustaining a sport management-themed LLC. Host: Dr. Jessica Braunstein-Minkove, Associate Profes...

In this episode, the conversation revolves around the connection between student-centered learning environments and active learning strategies.  Host: Dr. David Pierce, Professor & Chair, Tourism, Event, and Sport Management, Indiana University Indianapolis Guest: Dr. Rebecca Achen, Professor of the Practice at the University of Kansas and Program Director for Professional Performance program,...

In this episode, the concept of empathy in its various forms (cognitive, affective, and behavioral) is discussed. Emphasis is placed on how to create awareness among students, professors, and working professionals about the value of empathy in unlocking creative and innovative thinking and fostering supportive learning and working environments that bring out the best in people. Host: Dr. Michael O...

In this episode, we discuss how to facilitate and foster an understanding of digital literacy  and technological innovation as an essential mindset for sport management students. Host: Dr. Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College Guest: Dr. Alyssa Czarnecki-Duplissie, Assistant Professor and Faculty Department Lead of Sport Management in the School of Sport Science Follow us on...

In this episode, we explore how sport management professors can infuse material regarding adaptive sport throughout the curriculum. Host: Dr. Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College Guests: Dr. Josh Pate, Dean of Business and Management, Program Coordinator for Sport Management, Professor, Lees-McRae College Dr. Robin Hardin, Professor, Sport Management, University of Tennesse...

In this episode we explore the value of bringing historical perspectives to the sport management classroom. We also reflect on how sport management itself is a study in innovation. Host: Dr. Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College Guest: Dr. John Miller, Visiting Professor Dr. Elizabeth Gregg, Professor, Sport Management, North Florida Follow us on Instagram! https://www.insta...

In this first episode, we share our passion for teaching innovation in sport management and the importance of engaging the sport management profession – from students to professors to working professionals – in an ongoing dialogue to enhance student learning. We introduce the work we have been doing as collaborators under the leadership of Dr. Jessica Braunstein-Minkove on a book entitled Innovati...