Teaching in Higher Ed

Cory Sprinkel and Haley Madden share about Preparing Students to Engage in Equitable Community Partnerships on episode 544 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We are hearing about the effects of students being ill prepared from our community partners, from instructors, and sometimes even frustrations from students. -Haley Madden When we do community engagement well, it ca...

Derek Bruff shares about curation, collections, and collaboration and the insights he’s gained from UVA’s Teaching Hub on episode 543 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We’re working with a ton of curators who have some expertise in an aspect of teaching and learning. -Derek Bruff The more diverse voices we have in it, the more powerful the teaching hub will be. -D...

Rob Morgan shares how creativity may just save us all on episode 542 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We have entire sections on collaboration, and failure, and empathy, and the importance of play. -Rob Morgan AI cannot replace the skills of dexterity, collaboration, and creativity. -Rob Morgan Resources Creativity Clarion Call Beyond Boundaries Program at Washington U...

Jeff Hittenberger discusses love, wisdom, and human flourishing in education on episode 541 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Curiosity isn’t just about finding answers; it’s about opening up to understand other perspectives. -Jeff Hittenberger Nurturing environments where students feel valued and guided towards their fullest potential can transform educatio...

Glen Warren answers the question: what’s love got to do with learning? on episode 540 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode “What matters to you matters.” – Glen Warren “Begin with the endless in mind.” – Glen Warren Resources Education for Love and Wisdom: Effective Teachers for Challenging Times, by Jeff Hittenberger, Pamela Tupy Scott, Andrew Ntzouras,...

Teresa Thompson discusses joyful connections through intentional teaching practices on episode 539 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I’ve had students share with me in the past that they were considering dropping the class, and then they got that welcome email, and they thought, okay, this time, it’s going to be different. -Teresa Thompson My syllabus was al...

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni share lessons from the Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan on episode 538 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I had some small goals for the Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan, and they were all surpassed. -Bonni Stachowiak Resources Teaching in Higher Ed Story Caravan “ Shifts | Alyssa B Kirkland Caramel S’mores Clusters | Jennie B 69...

Dan Levy and Angela Pérez share about Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT on episode 538 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It’s very easy to be overwhelmed right now with AI. -Dan Levy AI has infinite patience. -Dan Levy ChatGPT is amazing for generating 10 topic ideas to get inspired. -Angela Pérez If you know how to prompt Chat GPT, you know how to create a custom...

John Warner explores stressing pedagogical principles over AI promises on episode 536 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Once they’ve done the writing or as even as they’re doing the writing, they’re reflecting on their own metacognitive understanding of their own practices. -John Warner While you are in the act of writing, you are processing your own i...

Andrew Cross and Alyshahn Kara-Virani share about creating interactive experiences and shaping the future of teaching on episode 535 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode A lot of play science comes down to being a safe space to learn from each other, to see how people respond to what you put out there in the world without it being this critical life or death situation. -An...

Josh Eyler helps us cultivate hope and action beyond grades on episode 534 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting. -Josh Eyler We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to re...

Josh Eyler shares even more problems with grades on episode 533 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Being a dad who is an educator takes things from the academic and intellectual and brings them immediately to the surface, to the real world and to the real consequences for students and families. -Josh Eyler The conflict between what we think and what we value and what we...

Mylien Duong discusses strategies for facilitating contentious conversations in your classroom on episode 532 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations. -Mylien Duong It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engag...

Christopher Gilman and Adelmar Ramirez describe how to use IIIF in your teaching to bring the world’s image collections to students on episode 531 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I think that our responsibility as professors in the 21st century is to engage students more. -Adelmar Ramirez Think with your hands. Every step that you make, every button that you click is...

Dave Stachowiak and Bonni invite you to share your teaching stories and they tell of a few lessons from the road on episode 530 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It’s interesting how much comes back to a caravan and a road trip, because that’s where it all started. -Dave Stachowiak There’s a lot of people who want to help you. You need to teach them ho...

James Lang reads his piece, Working the Gardens of Our Classrooms, on episode 529 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode He quits worrying about whether Pangloss or Martin are correct, decides that he and his companions should turn their attention to the immediate work demanded by their current circumstances. -James Lang Writing is, number 1, a form of thinking, number 2, th...

Jason Lodge discusses assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence on episode 528 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Where does the capability of AI end and where does the impact of the teacher start? -Jason Lodge Our tendencies as teachers and the way that we wanted to teach was clashing with the way that the lesson plan had been structured by Chat GPT. -Jas...

Alexis Peirce Caudell shares ways we cen go beyond dichtomous thinking: strategies to enhance teaching and learning on episode 527 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It’s about being able to sort of think across or beyond those boxes that we normally operate on every day. -Alexis Peirce Caudell Resources Categories we live by: how we classify everyone and everythin...

Ann Taylor shares ways to offer accessible and affordable learning through open educational resources (OERs) on episode 526 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I have been surprised at how some of us don’t think about the cost of what we’re requiring our students to use. -Ann Taylor It’s the instructor that’s making the difference, that’s mak...

Amira Barger shares four common arguments against DEI and how to dismantle them on episode 525 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Many people who are at the margins often know from lived experience that the playing field is not level, and that there are biases that leaders and individuals across any and every institution have to mitigate. -Amira Barger Many people tend t...

Jon Ippolito on a more critical framework for AI use (amongst other topics) on episode 524 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We need to either rethink what intelligence means, beyond the scope of simply being articulate and knowledgeable when it comes to to putting words together, or we need to think about what other values we want to promote and encourage and teach tha...

Judith Dutill talks about communication literacy in the age of AI on episode 523 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode In the college classroom, we don’t often emphasize that type of communication as a skill that’s worth teaching, talking about, assessing, and we focus instead on more formal types of communication. -Judith Dutill Communication is a very subjecti...

Clarissa Sorensen Unruh shares about intersectionality, power, and pedagogy on episode 522 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode It is hard for students to accurately think about what their learning process looked like. -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh Not only is the system rigged for a certain dominant group, but it is purposefully sabotaging some groups. -Clarissa Sorensen Unruh...

Leon Furze shares the myth of the AI first draft on episode 521 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode We need to provide opportunities for people to find things hard, to persevere, and to see if they come out the other side. -Leon Furze For me, brainstorming, idea generation, drafting, all of that is far more important than the finished product itself. -Leon Furze If we&#82...

Dave Stachowiak interviews Bonni about Bird Brains on episode 520 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks. -Bonni Stachowiak For those of us that teach in a higher education context, there are so many different classroom observation tools that are far more grounded in research. -Bonni Stachowiak Let’s celebrate it f...