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 […]
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. […]
I have wrestled with the advantages and limitations of both synchronous and asynchronous online teaching delivery. A year ago, the two terms did not come up too often. Now, I think about, read, and discuss these terms in the context of online teaching daily. I have also formed opinions and have tried to be open […]
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 […]
Drs. Carrol Warner and Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University presented a recorded session about “Creating and Maintaining an Inclusive Online Learning Environment” for the 2020 Lilly Conference. The two presenters have extensive experience and showed several tools and approaches. I appreciate hearing their rationale for certain activities. They mentioned five areas for creating […]
Dr. Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University shared several considerations for online course design for teaching and learning for students with low-bandwidth access at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Bartlett has extensive experience teaching online. Do students in the courses we teach have internet access or device limitations? Bartlett started the presentation by reminding us […]
Drs. Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek were guests on the Tea for Teaching podcast. The discussed their new book entitled Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments, recently published by Stylus publishing. This one is on my reading list, and it was great to hear about it on a podcast I enjoy! The book […]
I was listening to an episode of the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode had Archana McEligot. McEligot spoke about epidemiology and courses they teach. I had never considered it, but they described how epidemiology is one of the first data science and analytics disciplines. McEligot described how big data requires interdisciplinary approaches and […]
We have been reading Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection by Morris, Stommel, and Friend out loud and to the kids for extra impact. I had honestly never realized what those three words, in combination, meant until reading a couple of essays in the collection. I nod often, agree, and stop to mention: why didn’t we […]
Tomorrow we start our spring 2021 semester. I am fortunate to be able to teach an online version of the BIT 480/580 Yeast Metabolic Engineering course with my significant other, Claire Gordy. We have planned the course to be asynchronous to provide flexibility and options to students who could benefit from this alternative. Several undergraduates […]