Podcasts

May 5, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Course Design, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

Reflecting on Teaching and My Mentors

A couple of weeks ago, I had the fantastic opportunity to talk to Dr. Barbi Honeycutt and be on the Lecture Breakers podcast. I consider Dr. Honeycutt as one of teaching mentors: when I first came to NC State in 2012, Barbi had a series of workshops to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars become […]

April 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections, Why

Student Workload Perceptions

Episode 183 of the Tea for Teaching podcast discussed student workload this week. Dr. Betsy Barre, Executive Director of the Center for Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University was on the show. Barre wrote a blog post about workload recently and discussed how at Wake Forest results from a student survey frequently mentioned work […]

March 26, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, SABER, Why

Mentors and What Really Matters

It was a fun and busy day. I really appreciate being able to reconnect with mentors and had a chance to talk to Dr. Barbi Honeycutt who taught me a lot while I was a teaching postdoctoral scholar here. I remember attending several workshops facilitated by Honeycutt, preparing a teaching philosophy, and even doing a […]

March 12, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
annotation, Delftia, Guest Speakers, Open Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections

Gutters, Gold, and Social Annotation

It was a tough week with several heartbreaking stories from our students and instructors. I love trying to help and have felt frustration in not knowing how! I do appreciate the active listening and reaching out that has been happening. All is not lost or in the gutter (I’ll return to this later!), we received […]

February 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections, Student groups, Undergraduate Research, Why

POP!

John Gordon, Associate Director, DELTA at NC State talked to me last summer about starting a podcast on podcasting. The Podcast On Podcasting (POP) is a project that focuses on the use of podcasting in unique ways. The series has three episodes: faculty podcasts, student-produced podcasts, and a weekly career development podcast by Marcy Bullock’s […]

February 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Metacognition, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

Pedagogical Decisions During a Pandemic

I heard Kevin Gannon on the Tea for Teaching podcast (episode 174) discussing with the hosts HyFlex teaching on their campus in the fall. Gannon offered an honest summary of challenges with student engagement and attendance in online and in person courses in the fall at their institution. I appreciate how Gannon explained some of […]

February 14, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Instructor Behaviors, Metacognition, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Podcasts, Reflections

Using Suggestions from The Learning Scientists

I listened to the latest podcast episode from The Learning Scientists yesterday. Episode 53 was with an applied linguist and author Alex Poole. I stared it with my mom and started talking about the many resources on the website: https://www.learningscientists.org. For several years now I have been sharing the videos and links with students as […]

February 13, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Podcasts, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques

Memory and Creative Assessments

On episode 348 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Michelle D. Miller and host Bonni Stachowiak talked about memory and memorizing in higher education. I enjoyed the discussion about explaining to students that even though we can use Google, there are some things we should learn and be able to retrieve from memory. […]

February 7, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Discussions, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Podcasts, Reflections, Why

Improvement Science for Online Courses

Drs. Carrol Warren and Michelle Bartlett recorded a short session for the 2020 Lily Conference entitled “Applying Improvement Science to Promote Online Course Delivery Successfully” with examples of the application of this method/mindset for their courses. The Carnegie Foundation identifies six core principles of improvement. Warren explained this framework and focused on one aspect or […]

January 31, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Online Learning, Podcasts, Reflections, Why

Busywork, Workload, and Online Courses

The Leading Lines podcast with Derek Bruff recently (episode 090) had Betsy Barre from Wake Forest University and Karen Costa, faculty developer specializing in online pedagogy and trauma-aware teaching and author of the 2020 book 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos. I enjoyed Costa’s book and have found Barre’s workload estimator really […]

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