Episodes
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
What Teaching Looks Like
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Video recordings of faculty teaching classes have long been used for professional development. In this episode, we examine Martin Springborg and Cassandra Volpe Horii join us to discuss how still photography may also be used for this purpose. Martin and Cassandra are the co-authors of What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs. Martin is the Interim Dean of Liberal Arts and STEM at Dakota County Technical College. Cassandra is the Associate Vice Provost for Education and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University.
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 Jan 27, 2021
Advancing Online Learning
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
We’ve focused a lot on faculty switching modalities during the pandemic, but even experienced online instructors have faced new challenges redesigning their courses to work for students with limited computer technology, network access, and quiet study environments. In this episode, Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek join us to discuss how universal design principles can be used to provide learning equity and human connections in our online classes.
Kevin works with colleges and universities as an educational consultant and teaches as a faculty member in Education at San Francisco State University. Todd is an Associate Research Professor and Associate Director of Fellowship Programs in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Todd is also co-author of Dynamic Lecturing that we've discussed on earlier podcast episode. Kevin and Todd are the authors of Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments, recently published by Stylus publishing.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Scaling Accessibility
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Adopting a culture of accessibility at an institution can seem both daunting and full of barriers, but movement forward can happen with the right strategies in place. In this episode, Dr. Sherri Restauri joins us to discuss how institutions can progress from providing accommodations for individual students to an institutional commitment to building accessibility into the course design process.
Sherri is the Director of Coastal’s Office of Online Learning and also serves as a teaching associate at the Department of Psychology at Coastal Carolina University. Sherri has served for a number of years on the steering committee for the OLC Innovate and Accelerate Annual Conferences, including serving at the 2020 OLC Innovate Conference in Chicago in the role of Co-Chair for Equity and Inclusion.
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 Dec 19, 2018
Inclusive teaching
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Are your class conversations dominated by a small number of voices? In this episode, Dr. Danica Savonick joins us to discuss a variety of class activities that support an inclusive learning environment and promote equity in participation while increasing student learning. Danica is an Assistant Professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature at SUNY Cortland, and a recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders award, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women's Studies, and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Scalar
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Wednesday Nov 28, 2018
Imagine an online environment that makes the thought processes of a writer visible, including the loops they get stuck in, the relevant tangents they pursue, and the non-linear way in which their ideas evolve. Now imagine that all of these features are easy to use and implement in the classroom. In this episode, Fiona Coll, an Assistant Professor of Technology and Literature at SUNY-Oswego, joins us to discuss how Scalar, a free open-source publishing platform, can help achieve these goals.
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.