Teaching in Higher Ed

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 —Natalie Houston Sometimes we have goals or intentions that are outdated, they’re from who we used to be.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...

Stephanie Vie discusses the ethical considerations of using Turnitin and other automatic plagiarism checkers. Guest: Stephanie Vie twitter: @digiret email: Stephanie. Vie@ucf.edu Academia:  https://ucf.academia.edu/StephanieVie Stephanie Vie researches the construction of digital identities in social media spaces  as well as critical approaches to composing technologies such as plagiarism detectio...

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli about developing curriculum for international higher education in the 21st Century. Guest: Dr. Mary Gene Saudelli Author, The Balancing Act:  International Higher Education in the 21st Century * LinkedIn Book on Amazon * Mary Gene is an assistant professor and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary in Qu...

On today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Robin Paige about the potential impact of stereotype threat inside and outside of our classrooms. Quote When dealing with stereotypes, one of the things we can do on our campuses or in our classrooms is create a space of accountability but without saying “You’re a bad person for thinking that.” —Robin Paige Resources Academic Paper by Claude Steele and Joshua A...

  Today on episode #078 of Teaching in Higher Ed: The power of checklists Book: The Checklist Manifesto  by Atul Gawande Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything–a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical a...

Today I welcome to the show Dr. Terese Huston to talk about teaching what you don’t know. Guest: Therese Huston Faculty Development Consultant, Seattle University Author: Teaching What You Don’t Know Seattle University faculty page:  here Personal page:   www.theresehustonauthor.com Twitter:   @ThereseHuston Therese Huston received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.S. and Ph. D. in Cognitiv...

In today’s episode, Doug McKee joins me to share about online courses. His Introduction to Econometrics class is taught about as close to an in-person as you can get, but without being bound by geographic barriers. Guest: Doug McKee Associate Chair and Senior Lecturer of Economics at Yale http://economics.yale.edu/people/douglas-mckee Website:  http://dougmckee.net/ Teach Better blog and podcast: ...

On today’s episode, ten prior guests, as well as Dave and I, come together to celebrate 75 episodes of Teaching in Higher Ed. We look back at episodes that have had a big impact on us, take a listener question, and make recommendations. Guests: 1) Sandie Morgan The Eight Second Rule – Wait eight seconds to give students a change to respond https://teachinginhighered.com/6 2) Michelle Miller...

Podcast Notes   On today’s show, Dr. Kris Shaffer talks about two topics: public scholarship and student privacy. Guest: Kris Shaffer Website:  kris.shaffermusic.com Twitter:  @krisshaffer GitHub:  kshaffer We don’t have a nice, fuzzy boundary between completely private and completely public like we used to. —Kris Shaffer We don’t advance human knowledge by publishing something and putting it...

Jim Sibley shares about Team-based Learning. Podcast Notes Team-based learning has come up a few times on the show previously (Dr. Chrissy Spencer in Episode 25 ). Today, however, we dive deep into this teaching approach and discover powerful ways to engage students with Dr. Jim Sibley. Guest: Jim Sibley Jim Sibley is Director of the Centre for Instructional Support at the Faculty of Applied Scien...

Robert Bjork on using cognitive psychology to enhance learning.   PODCAST NOTES Guest: Dr. Robert Bjork Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCLA Learning and memory; the science of learning in the practice of teaching. The Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab Common misperceptions Belief that we work something like a man made recording device. In almost every critical way, we differ from an...