Carrots, Sticks, and Why You Shouldn’t Skip Class
If you’re an educator and not listening to the Tea for Teaching podcast, you’re missing out. It features weekly discussions with educators …
Launching My First Newsletter!
I’ve spent the last two decades helping college and university instructors develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching and …
Climate Change, Board Games, and Agency
Regular readers of my blog know that I like thinking about how to teach people to play board games and how to …
Conversations for Connecting
I just finished listening to a fantastic interview on the Token Podcast. The interviewer was my friend Lee C. Camp, and the …
Lessons Learned from Six Years of Podcasting
The educational technology podcast Leading Lines that I host and co-produce is winding down after six great years. Through interviews with faculty, graduate …
Toward More Equitable Academic Searches
Last month, I read with interest this Psychonomic Society post from several of my Vanderbilt psychology colleagues: “Organizing a Faculty Cluster Hire …
Advice for New Teaching Center Directors
This summer a colleague who is fairly new to the educational development field asked me for three pieces of advice for a …
Lecture Breakers Virtual Summer Conference, June 7-9, 2022
I’m quite honored to be speaking at the 3rd annual Lecture Breakers Virtual Summer Conference this coming June! Educator and consultant Barbi …
The Trouble with Grades
I’m not sure there’s a precise definition yet for ungrading, but it usually refers to some combination of questioning the role of grades …
How Does the Fourth Season of a Course Podcast Work?
Asking my first-year writing students to create short audio pieces in lieu of written essays was a bit of a gamble the …