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 be…

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…

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 s…

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 hel…

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 Writ…

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…

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 liv…

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 di…

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 …

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 val…

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 D…

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 purposefull…

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 …

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 rese…

Danielle De La Mare shares how to foster self compassion as a professor on episode 519 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode And I worked way, way, way, way, way harder than I should have because I thought that if I didn’t work hard, people would see that I wasn’t worthy of being their teacher. -Danielle De La Mare Let’s jus…

José Bowen shares about Teaching with AI on episode 518 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The technology changed the standard that we accept. -José Bowen There’s a huge equity issue here, but there’s also an opportunity to raise standards. -José Bowen There are different things that AI can do to help us with student lear…

C. Edward Watson talks about thinking with and about AI on episode 517 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Where will things be 2 and a half years? And how do you prepare students for that world that’s rapidly evolving? -Eddie Watson You must use AI as a starting point in the real world. -Eddie Watson Even the best tool on…

Karen Robert + Aga Palalas share about their co-edited book, Presence in the Online World, a Contemplative Perspective and Practice for Educators, on episode 516 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode This practice really focuses on the beautiful part of us, which is compassion. -Aga Palalas What is my intention? Why am I her…

Jody Greene discusses faculty’s role in student success on episode 515 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode The special power of literature comes from that capacity to have one foot in the factual or the real and one foot in the imagination or the fictional. -Jody Greene We know that there are so many other important elemen…

Joe Hoyle shares lessons from more than 50 years of teaching and from his free book: Transformative Education, on episode 514 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode If you want to become a better teacher, find someone who has an interest in teaching like you do. -Joe Hoyle Great teaching is terribly, terribly complicated. -Jo…

Adaira Landry and Resa Lewiss share how to develop your MicroSkills – small actions for big impact on episode 513 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode I love that no is a complete sentence. -Resa Lewiss Taking intentional deliberate breaks makes you even more effective and efficient at work. -Resa Lewiss In academics, we ar…

Tolulope (Tolu) Noah describes how to create engaging microlecturees on episode 512 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Microlectures prompt students to do something with the information they’re learning. -Tolu Noah I always find myself learning so much more about the power and potential of my devices through watching his …

David Clark discusses using alternative grading practices to foster student learning on episode 511 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Does this represent what I really care about? -David Clark Most of us are used to giving feedback in some way, but making it helpful is the tough part. -David Clark A reassessment always n…

Robert Talbert shares about the principles of grading for growth on episode 510 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode In one shot, she can’t get a B in the class. And I sat there and just watched her sense of self worth and her excitement in the class just decay away right before my eyes. -Robert Talbert When you look at gra…

Kem Saichaie talks about how to teach in active learning spaces on episode 509 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Flexibility requires familiarity. -Kem Saichaie Oftentimes, at least at the research intensive level, we have this false comparison between STEM and non STEM types of teaching in classrooms. -Kem Saichaie At t…