Teaching in Higher Ed

Nancy Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson share about The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on episode 616 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We see SOTL as simply inquiry into teaching and learning for the purposes of improving teaching and learning in context and then contributing to what we know about teaching and learning in support of the broader aims of higher education.

-Nancy Chick

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.

-Katarina Mårtensson

I can’t go through this book and say who wrote this sentence or this section or whose idea this part was, because it really is a product of the three of us.

-Peter Felten

Resources

The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, by Nancy L. Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson

Human Synergistics

Dan Bernstein, Nancy Chick, Pat Hutchings, and Gary Poole Share Strategies for “Going Public” with SoTL

Book Resources (Including a Reading Guide)

I Lost My Job, by Robin DeRosa

Harold Jarche’s PKM Posts

A Systematic Literature Review of Students as Partners in Higher Education

Drawing Digital: The Complete Guide for Learning to Draw & Paint on Your iPad, by Lisa Bardot

The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate: How to Make Digital Art on Your iPad, by Ruth Burrows

The Correspondent: A Novel, by Virginia Evans

The Academic Imperfectionist

Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks, by Janice M. McCabe

Poll Everywhere

Matthew Mahavongtrakul and Bonni Stachowiak have a conversation about being kind to our future selves on episode 615 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.

-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Once you are comfortable with your system and you’re iterating, it actually starts to become second nature, not only to professional life, but to personal life as well.

-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

An exercise that I did with my supervisor once was to actually go through each of these tasks and to see what I thought was high priority, was it actually high priority for the job that I was in?

-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

 

Resources

Karen Costa’s LinkedIn Post About the Ink & Volt Planning Dashboard

Notsu

Eisenhower Matrix

Episode 407: Unpacking Resilience and Grief with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, and Este Jordan (they share about each of their “pandemic dirty words” on this episode)

Goblin Tools – Magic ToDo

Ink and Volt Dashboard Deskpad

Gettin’ Air: The Open Education Network with Robin DeRosa and David Ernst, by Terry Greene

Asana

Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it’s going to be to keep up, I don’t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.

-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they’ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.

-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information,  we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we’ve piqued their curiosity.

-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources

Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak

Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche

Inoreader

Unread App

The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog)

RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft

MiniRoll

This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder

The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing

NASA Image of the Day

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Poll Everywhere

Marc Watkins shares about cultivating skepticism and curiosity in an age of AI on Episode 613 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I do think online education is going to be the focal point for this next year, and how it can survive with an agentic AI. My feeling is, we need to be offering students more embodied experiences and disembodied spaces.

-Marc Watkins

Every technology has its affordances and the things that are negative about it too; your cell phone, the computer, the fact we’re talking about this right now on the systems that we are using, cloud computing, that all has a cost.

-Marc Watkins

For an incoming freshman student in college to take 4 or 5 classes and have 4 or 5 very different AI policies, 4 or 5 very different understandings of what AI is, it is incredibly confusing.

-Marc Watkins

Resources

Sesame Street: One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)

What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not, by Marc Watkins

Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill, by Marc Watkins

Civics of Technology’s Privacy Week Resources

The Opposite of Cheating

The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing, by Anna Mills, Jon Ippolito, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins

Lynn Meade uncovers how to make learning visible with portfolios on episode 612 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

An ePortfolio is basically a curated collection of student work. It includes reflection, and it’s usually across the college experience.

-Lynn Meade

Anytime I teach portfolios, it’s really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?

-Lynn Meade

There’s something particularly lovely about seeing student or faculty members’ written comments about my work. Both the critiques and those comments that build me up, and how very powerful they are, and how much they mean to me.

-Lynn Meade

It’s not about the tech. The most important thing is, am I writing? Am I able to think about myself? Am I able to reflect about myself?

-Lynn Meade

Resources

Building a Professional Portfolio (OER Book) by Lynn Meade

University of Arkansas Student Portfolios (portfolio.uark.edu)

Award-Winning ePortfolios Highlight Student Talent and Career Readiness

Fulbright College Team Outlines ePortfolio Initiative

Multiple New U of A ePortfolio Resources Available for Students and Faculty

Beyond a Resume, Part One: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)

Beyond a Resume, Part Two: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)

ePortfolios Overview (AAC&U ePortfolios Topic Page)

Poll Everywhere

Reese W. is Here to Boost My Writing Career, by John Warner

The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns

Nancy Duarte on LinkedIn

Video on Box Breathing