Episodes
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Teaching big
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Wednesday May 02, 2018
You might think you have a heavy course load. Imagine being the instructor of record for approximately 5,000 students in a semester. In this episode, Dr. Kristina Mitchell, a faculty member and director of the online education program for the Political Science Department at Texas Tech, joins us again to discuss the design, organization, and management of high-enrollment online introductory political science courses.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Assessment
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Dr. David Eubanks created a bit of a stir in the higher ed assessment community with a November 2017 Intersection article critiquing common higher education assessment practices. This prompted a discussion that moved beyond the assessment community to a broader audience as a result of articles in the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. In today's podcast, Dr Eubanks joins us to discuss how assessment can help improve student learning and how to be more efficient and productive in our assessment activities.
Dr. Eubanks is the Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness at Furman University and Board Member of the Association for the Assessment of Learning and Higher Education.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Gender Bias in Course Evaluations
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Have you ever received comments in student evaluations that focus on your appearance, your personality, or competence? Do students refer to you as teacher or an inappropriate title, like Mr. or Mrs., rather than professor? For some, this may sound all too familiar. Kristina Mitchell, a Political Science Professor from Texas Tech University, joins us in this episode to discuss her research exploring gender bias in student course evaluations.
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.