Episodes
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Google Apps and the LMS
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Creating course content in an LMS can be time-consuming and tedious. In this episode, Dave Ghidiu joins us to discuss ways of leveraging Google Apps to simplify content creation, facilitate student collaboration, and to allow students to maintain access to their work after the semester ends.
Dave is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of the Gladys M. Snyder Center for Teaching and Learning at Finger Lakes Community College. Previous to his time at FLCC, he spent a few years as a Senior Instructional Designer at Open SUNY, where he was a lead designer for the OSCQR rubric software.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Teaching for the Public Good
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
When designing a course, faculty and instructional designers often focus on the course as a discrete entity without considering its role in the institution and society. In this episode, Robin DeRosa joins us to discuss how our classes and institutions can help to support broader social objectives. Robin is the Director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University, Robin had long been an editor of Hybrid Pedagogy and is a co-founder of the Open Pedagogy Notebook. She has also published on a wide variety of topics related to higher education, including open pedagogy, remote learning, and value-centered instruction planning.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Open Reflection
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019
Students can provide useful feedback on instructional practices and class design when they are asked, In this episode, three students from John's spring economics capstone class join us to provide their reflections on the class's experiment in developing an open pedagogy project. Our guests in today's episode are Maria Aldrich, Victoria Heist and Charlie Tararzona.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Iterative OER Development
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Imagine course materials that are always up to date and evolve continually to become better at supporting student learning. In this, Dr. Steven Greenlaw joins us to discuss how some publishers of open educational resources are trying to set up sustainable practices to achieve these goals. Steve is a Professor of Economics at the University of Mary Washington and the author of the OpenStax Economics textbooks. He has also developed the materials for Lumen Learning’s Waymaker Introductory Economics texts.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Just-in-Time Textbook
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
Wednesday Jan 30, 2019
What would you do if you are scheduled to teach a class of 75 students and discover that several very expensive textbooks would be required to address the full range of course topics? In this episode, Dr. Jessica Kruger rejoins us to discuss how she responded to this challenge by working with her students to create their own textbook.
Jessica is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Love's labor not lost
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Wednesday Nov 21, 2018
Who knows and understands the needs of your students better than your own students? In this episode, Mya Brown, an Assistant Professor of Theatre at SUNY-Oswego, joins us to discuss how our students can build open educational resources that take advantage of the unique insights our students have about what novices need to learn to be successful in our courses and disciplines.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Open pedagogy
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Wednesday Nov 14, 2018
Imagine an academy that values a public knowledge commons and supports and recognizes the academic labor required to develop, maintain, build and evolve that commons. Imagine your students actively contributing to that commons. In this episode, Robin DeRosa joins us to discuss open pedagogy, free textbooks, and the building of such a commons.
Robin is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Plymouth State University, an editor of Hybrid Pedagogy, and co-founder of the Open Pedagogy Notebook.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday May 23, 2018
Adaptive Learning
Wednesday May 23, 2018
Wednesday May 23, 2018
Do your students arrive in your classes with diverse educational backgrounds? Does a one-size-fits-all instructional strategy leave some students struggling and others bored? Charles Dziuban joins us in this episode to discuss how adaptive learning systems can help provide all of our students with a personalized educational path that is based on their own individual needs.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Teaching with comics
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Looking for ways to increase student confidence in their ability to learn? Or their ability to see themselves as professionals in the field? In this episode, Carly Tribulli, a Biology Professor at SUNY-Farmingdale, joins us to discuss how comics may be created and used to meet students where they’re at, draw them in, and help them develop mental models of complicated processes and concepts. We discuss Carly's plans to create an OER biology textbook in which biological processes are represented using comic strips, her planned research on the effectiveness of instructional use of comics, as well the positive role model that she provides in Carly's Adventures in Waspland, an instructional comic that Carly created for the American Museum of Natural History during her graduate study there.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Creating an open textbook
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Wednesday Dec 20, 2017
Over the last few decades, textbook prices have been increasing 3-4 times faster than the overall price level. Responding to this, many students choose to either not buy textbooks or delay purchasing them until the semester is well underway. In response, a growing number of faculty, departments, colleges, and universities have begun to create and use open educational resources that are freely available to students and faculty.
In this episode, we discuss the process of creating an open textbook with Kristen Munger, who, along with several collaborators, created Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice, as part of the SUNY Open Textbook project. We also discuss how and why faculty may wish to consider adopting or creating open educational resources.
Kristen Munger is an Associate Dean in the School of Education at SUNY-Oswego. Prior to becoming Associate Dean, she was a faculty member in the Counseling and Psychological Services department at SUNY-Oswego. Before beginning her doctoral work at Syracuse University, she practiced as a school psychologist in New York state schools for twelve years.
A transcript and show notes are available at teaforteaching.com