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Centering CentersTIA - Virtual GatheringToday’s episode features Elizabeth Dickens (University of Virginia) and Nausheen Shafiq (University of British Columbia) in discussion of a manuscript on curriculum developers in educational development, which is under review at To Improve the Academy.
This is the fifth episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on the journal for our listeners, especially about our authors' research and experiences publishing in our journal. We look forward to bringing you regular conversations with our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and board members.
Vi...2024-11-0835 minCentering CentersTIA: Impacts of campus disruption on educational developers’ role-identity and teamworkToday’s episode features Bill Pilny, Benjamin Brock, and Stephanie Laggini Fiore in discussion of their recent To Improve the Academy article, “Impacts of campus disruption on educational developers’ role-identity and teamwork.” The authors apply the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (or DSMRI) to the work of educational developers during the disruption of COVID-19 on our campuses. They present case studies of educational developers during that time and distill themes across the cases.
This is the fourth episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the curtain on t...2024-10-1733 minCentering CentersSocial Justice Advocacy in Educational DevelopmentDr. Kim Case, Senior Advisor for Organizational Culture to VCU's Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President for Inclusive Excellence. Dr. Case is a tenured professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and previously served as VCU's inaugural Director of Faculty Success in the Office of the Provost. Dr. Case’s work blends her roles as a social justice educator, faculty developer, and mentor with a passion for inclusive pedagogy and anti-racism training. She’s also the author of several books on teaching about privilege and intersectionality. In this interview, she shares her insights on how social justice scholars navigate and...2024-09-1236 minCentering CentersTransforming Support for Adjuncts: Insights from Liza BolitzerDr. Liza Bolitzer is an experienced researcher, teacher and project manager dedicated to advancing teaching and learning in higher education. She uses qualitative methods to study how college faculty, institutional leaders, and higher education professionals can advance college students' academic learning. She has shared her work in Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and The Journal of Faculty Development.
As an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Kean University, she teaches graduate level courses on qualitative methods and educational leadership and collaborates with...2024-08-2934 minCentering CentersAdrianna Kezar - Dispelling the MythsAdrianna Kezar is the Dean’s Professor of Leadership, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. Dr. Kezar holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in higher education administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined the faculty at USC in 2003 after serving at the University of Maryland and George Washington University as a faculty member.
Dr. Kezar is a national expert of change and leadership in higher education and her research agenda ex...2024-08-1537 minCentering CentersAcademic Librarians as Educational Developers?Today’s episode features Jane Hammons (The Ohio State University), who talks about her recent To Improve the Academyarticle, “Academic librarians as educational developers: Overview, case study, and discussion.” An academic librarian who offers faculty-facing information literacy workshops, Hammons argues that educational developers may have untapped allies in instructional librarians. Her article offers an example of one such partnership and a robust discussion of how identity can impact how educational developers and librarians conceptualize these partnerships.
This is the third episode of the partnership between To Improve the Academy and Centering Centers. We hope to pull back the c...2024-08-0122 minCentering CentersEmbodiment & AI with Susan HrachFor some, artificial intelligence represents the latest development in an age-old series of fantasies about escaping our vulnerable, imperfect, animal bodies. Humans have continuously developed tools to boost our capabilities; in the case of AI, we’re amplifying the speed of cognitive processes. But what capacities remain distinctively human?
Dr. Susan Hrach is the author of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Award-winning book Minding Bodies: how physical space, sensation, and movement affect learning (WVU Press, 2021). As an undergraduate, she spent a year studying at the Universität Innsbruck, Austria, which shaped her lifelong interests in world lit...2024-05-2153 minCentering CentersGoose Leadership & Empathy Migrations
Kelly Ferris Lester, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, received her
BFA in Theatre and Dance from the University of Memphis, her MFA in
Choreography and Performance from The College at Brockport (SUNY), and her
Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Southern
Mississippi.
Lester is a Professor of Dance. Prior to her
role as Associate Vice Provost, Lester was the inaugural director of the Center
for Faculty Development. Lester is featured throughout the Association of
College and University Educators (ACUE) courses demonstrating evidence-based
teaching practices, and she regularly pre...2024-04-1550 minCentering CentersBehind the Scenes with TIA
In the second of our new To Improve the Academy (TIA) partnership episodes on Centering Centers, Associate Editor, Liz Norrell (Associate Director of Instructional Support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi), Marina Smitherman (Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Dalton State College in Northwest Georgia and Editor in Chief of TIA) and Megan Robertson (Educational Developer at Simon Friesen University in British Columbia, Canada, and Associate Editor with TIA), speak about
the forthcoming call for assistant editors to join the team – a brand ne...2024-03-2935 minCentering CentersLeadership Pathways: Cultivating Equity in EducationChris Hakala talks with Dr. Leslie Alvarez about her move from psychology to educational development. Dr. Alvarez recounts her work with marginalized students and its impact on her path to faculty development, highlighting the role of equity in teaching. She discusses building a faculty development program and her transition to a director role amid the pandemic. Dr. Alvarez's experience underscores the importance of teaching centers in promoting inclusive education and meeting academic challenges.
Transcript & AI Generated Episode Summary2024-03-0938 minCentering CentersTIA: Evidencing the Value of Educational Development: Charting a Course on the Waves and Winds of ChangeToday’s episode features Jovan Groen (Western University), Carolyn Ives (Thompson Rivers University), and Veronica (Roni) Bamber (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh), who talk about their recent To Improve the Academy article, “Evidencing the value of educational development: Charting a course on the waves and winds of change,” which they wrote with coauthors Carolyn Hoessler (Thompson Rivers University), Corinne Laverty (Queen’s University), and Klodiana Kolomitro (Queen’s University). This international group traces its roots back to a Canadian group of educational developers. They wanted to keep working and writing together, and eventually invited in Roni Bamber from Scotland. Their piece provid...2024-02-2333 minCentering CentersIlluminating Pathways: Building Relationships as a Center of OneChris Hakala and JT Torres talk about operating a center with very limited human resources. JT is a center of one, and in that role, he is working to build relationships, create educational development opportunities and support faculty and student teaching and learning. He does this by developing relationships. In the episode we discuss how JT is able to be so successful in an environment that is different than many in the higher ed world.
Transcript2024-02-0933 min
CoLab PodcastCreative Play as Community BuildingJosh Luckens of the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Joan Zaretti of Bryant University and Karen Hopkins of Auburn University discuss their experiences creating playful and play-based programs and activities aimed at engaging learners and building community. They share strategies for cultivating a sense of belonging, purpose, and trust among students and faculty through the joy of play.This episode originally aired on November 17, 2023 on the Centering Centers podcast, which explores the work of Centers for Teaching and Learning like Wentworth’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative, and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. It's a...2024-01-3033 minCentering CentersBridging Dialogues: Partnering with To Improve the AcademyIn this episode, Liz Norell shares her educational developer journey and discusses plans for the forthcoming partnership between Centering Centers, a POD Network podcast, and To Improve the Academy, its flagship peer-reviewed journal.
Dr. Liz Norell is Associate Director of Instructional Support at the University of Mississippi's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Prior to joining UM, Liz spent more than two decades in higher education as an instructor and (for a brief time early in graduate school) working as a digital communicator in a university marketing office. She spent more than a decade working as...2024-01-2635 minCentering CentersLet's Remember What We Value in this Work
In this episode of Centering Centers, Diane Boyd shares how
she guided faculty through the pandemic by first having them connect to their core values before diving into new teaching modalities. She explains how articulating one's values provides an internal compass when navigating challenging situations--keeping you grounded in your strengths and priorities, and she emphasizes the importance of self-care and preparation as ways to
support oneself in this work.
Diane E. Boyd serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Mary Seawell Metz ‘58 Executive Director of the Faculty Development Center at F...2024-01-1240 minCentering CentersGetting to Know POD's New Executive Director, Danielle GabrielIn this episode of Centering Centers, Co-Chair of the POD Network’s Digital Resources and Innovation committee, Yianna Vovides, engages in a transformative conversation with the POD Network's newly appointed Executive Director, Danielle Gabriel.
Danielle Gabriel's professional background encompasses program management in educational and museum settings. At the George Washington University Office of Alumni Relations, she was involved in program development and alumni engagement. She also served as the Assistant Director for Museum Grants and Stewardship at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, where she managed institutional giving and community support.
Sh...2023-12-1721 minCentering CentersReflecting on the POD Conference with New Educational DevelopersIn Episode 53 of Centering Centers, we hear from three brand new educational developers who recently attended the POD Conference in November of 2023. Grouped in the "getting started" two day workshop, these new PODsters share their takeaways and reflections on their experience. This conversation will be of interest to those who are new to an educational development role as well as to those who lead and mentor new educational developers, as each of the three brings a unique disciplinary perspective and each is at very different places in their professional careers.
Dr. Rebecca Conley joined the Department of...2023-12-0144 minCentering CentersCreative Play as Community BuildingIn this episode, Joan Zaretti from Bryant University, Karen Hopkins from Auburn University, and Josh Luckens from Wentworth Institute of Technology discuss their experiences creating playful and play-based programs and activities aimed at engaging their campus and building community. They share strategies for cultivating a sense of belonging, purpose, and trust among students and faculty through the joy of play.
*This episode is another installment of our PODFest series which was recorded December 1, 2022.
Transcript2023-11-1732 minCentering CentersScarlet Letters & StorytellingJosh Eyler, acclaimed author of How Humans Learn, delves into the pivotal role of storytelling in teaching, learning, and educational development and some of the systemic issues around grading practices tackled in his upcoming book, Scarlet Letters. He offers reflections and stories about his own developmental journey leading different CTLs and shares insights and inspiration for others engaged in educational development and institutional change.
Josh Eyler is Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and
Director of the Think Forward Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of
Mississippi, where he is also Clinical Assistant Professor...2023-11-0338 min
Teaching in Higher EdTeaching with Artificial Intelligence, with Lindsay DoukopoulosLindsay Doukopoulos talks about teaching with artificial intelligence on episode 489 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Learning is exceptionally difficult to really assess in a meaningful way at scale.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Students are almost exactly at the same place that faculty are in terms of their skepticism and anxiety about these tools.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Learning is change.
-Lindsay Doukopoulos
Resources
Auburn Online’s Teaching with Artificial Intelligence Course
Auburn University Biggio Center for the Enhancement of...2023-10-2643 minCentering CentersCenters for Teaching and Learning, A Love Letter, with Mary WrightMary Wright is the Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning, Executive Director of the Sheridan Center, and a Research Professor in Sociology. She is a former president of the POD Network in Higher Education. Before joining Brown, she served as Director of Assessment at the University of Michigan's CRLT. She holds degrees in sociology and higher education administration from Princeton and the University of Michigan.
Her research focuses on teaching evaluation, educational development impact, and graduate student development. She is a co-author on the ACE-POD Center for Teaching and Learning Matrix (2017), which created operational standards for Centers...2023-10-2055 minCentering CentersOrganizational Positioning of Centers for Teaching and LearningHow do we optimize our Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL's) organizational structure for maximizing impact and resources? In this episode, Chris Hakala, Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship and Professor of Psychology from Springfield College in Springfield, MA and Bonnie Mullinix, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Integration of Research Teaching and Learning at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland and President of Jacaranda Educational Development, LLC discuss the importance of reporting lines, integrating with other campus units, space logistics, and being a persistent advocate to advance teaching and learning.
*Th...2023-10-0632 minCentering CentersAdvocating for the Future with POD President, Stacy GrootersIn this episode, we speak with Stacy Grooters, the current President of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education. Stacy shares her vision for leading POD, reflects on its history of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and discusses how educational developers can advocate for higher education.
Stacy Grooters is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Boston College and the President-Elect of the POD Network. She earned her PhD in English literature, with a concentration in Women’s Studies, from the University of Washington, where she also ta...2023-09-2239 minCentering CentersGraduate Students in Teaching Centers: Chapter 2What is the role of a graduate student in a center for teaching and learning? Does it vary by institution or are there predictable patterns that we as educational developers can use to craft job descriptions, direct projects, and provide opportunities for growth through assessment and reflection?
This episode is hosted by Yianna Vovides from CNDLS and features an interview with Haya Jalal.
Transcript
2023-08-2517 minCentering CentersUngrading & Alternative AssessmentsIn this episode, Holly Parker from the Center for Teaching
and Learning at the University of Vermont speaks with Leigh Wright,
Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at Murray State University and Ciera Cornelison, Instructional Designer at the University of Alabama about their experiences and thoughts on alternative grading practices. They discuss how these approaches can promote a more nuanced and personalized understanding of student learning beyond mere numbers and letters.
*This episode is another installment of our PODFest series which was recorded December 1, 2022.
2023-08-1131 minCentering CentersGraduate Students in Teaching Centers: Chapter 1What is the role of a graduate student in a center for teaching and learning? Does it vary by institution or are there predictable patterns that we as educational developers can use to craft job descriptions, direct projects, and provide opportunities for growth through assessment and reflection?
This episode is hosted by Laura March and Yianna Vovides from CNDLS and features interviews with:
Stefanie Chae
Pulkit Goyal
Nikisha Kotwal
Oluwafikayo Odugbemi
Kathleen Waterston
Transcript2023-07-2816 minCentering CentersFaculty Engagement: How Are We Inviting Folks Back To Programming?Following the Covid-19 pandemic, faculty and students alike have experienced burnout, stress, and disengagement with professional activities. For educational developers, this can show up as dwindling numbers of participants in our programs and services. As developers we know our job is to make our programs relevant and impactful to our academic communities, but how do we re-engage them in ethical, sustainable, and meaningful ways? In this episode, Chris Adamson from Dakota State University and Tara Harvey an educational developer and founder of True North, an educational development company focused on supporting intercultural teaching and learning discuss the challenges, opportunities...2023-07-1424 minCentering CentersBecoming A New Faculty DeveloperWhat is the journey to educational development like? What are the challenges and opportunities that come with starting out as a new faculty developer? This episode is another installment of our PODFest episodes featuring a conversation between April Tallant, Senior Educational Developer at Coulter Faculty Commons at Western Carolina University; and the POD Network's DRI Committee Co-Chair, Yianna Vovides, Senior Director, Learning Design & Research at Georgetown University's Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).
Transcript2023-06-3025 minCentering CentersHow to Help New Faculty Get Started with SoTL ProjectsHow do we make SoTL accessible (and not scary) to new faculty?
This episode features a lively and engaging conversation between Maria Gallardo-Williams of North Carolina State University, Nancy Chick of Rollins College, and Erin Garcia of Auburn University on the topic of introducing faculty to SoTL. It was recorded as part of the PODFest event hosted by the DRI committee on December 1st, 2022.
Transcript2023-06-1621 minCentering CentersHow to Help STEM Faculty Help Students LearnProfessors are expected to have extensive expertise in their fields of study in order to qualify to teach at the post-secondary level, but can graduate coursework in quantum mechanics or X-ray crystallography prepare you to be a supportive advisor and an inclusive educator?
Ashley McNeill, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Springfield College in Springfield, MA, and Elizabeth McDonald, Instructional Designer at The University of Alabama, discuss faculty preparedness for teaching (or lack thereof) for new STEM educators. It’s important for new faculty, particularly in STEM, to be introduced to Centers and other resources in...2023-06-0241 minCentering CentersDeveloping a Teaching Center PodcastIs it time that your teaching center started its own podcast? That’s the question that brought four POD Network colleagues together in a breakout session at PODFest 2022 to talk about teaching center podcasts. What goals might a teaching center podcast have? How would you know if you were meeting those goals? And how would your center go about planning and producing a podcast? This episode features a lively conversation between two teaching center podcast producers, Derek Bruff of the University of Mississippi and Tom Pantazes of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, and two colleagues interested in starting new po...2023-05-1936 minCentering CentersInflections & InnuendosI do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
--Wallace Stevens, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
In this season of Centering Centers, we are speaking with educational
developers from diverse centers about their inspirations and innovations – what
drives their work and approaches that have impact.
Today we are speaking with Robert Gray, an Associate Professor
of University Pedagogy in the Department of Education at the University of
Bergen in Bergen, Norway who...2023-05-0537 minCentering CentersCollaboration Across Universities and Across BordersIn this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Jessica Riddell, professor of early modern literature and the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Bishop’s University in Quebec, Canada. Jessica is also the executive director of the Maple League of Universities, which is not, in fact, a group of Canadian super-heroes, but rather a consortium of four small universities that have banded together to support quality undergraduate education. Jessica shares her journey into the field of educational development, how collaboration across institutions can support the missions of those institutions, what she’s lear...2023-04-2141 minCentering CentersIntegrating Academic Technologies with Faculty Development“I want my people to look like the experts they are, because I want them to be treated as colleagues, even though we are a service organization.”
In this episode of Centering Centers, guest host Derek Bruff talks with Shawn Miller, director of Learning Innovation at Duke University. Shawn’s unit combines faculty development, instructional technology, online program management, and more. Shawn shares how Duke Learning Innovation came to be and how the unit continues to integrate these different functions, and he provides strategic advice for centers for teaching and learning who are navigating the ac...2023-03-3137 minCentering CentersHow One CTL is Responding to the AI Disruption of Higher EducationIn this episode of Centering Centers, we are concluding our trifecta of episodes on the AI disruption by sharing a specific example of how one center is responding to the challenge. Many of us have been benefitted from sharing examples of policies, statements, assignments, and ideas online through the AI for Educators Google group and pod listserv, in that spirit, I wanted to share out through this platform how my colleagues and I are working through these challenges.
My guests are my colleagues, Asim Ali, executive director of the Biggio Center, and Shawndra Bowers, who is, like...2023-03-1743 minCentering CentersUnpacking the Ethics of AI in Educational DevelopmentIn our last episode, we learned about ChatGPT with Cynthia Alby. Today we are diving deeper into the ethics of AI and how we as educational developers might best support the conversations happening across our campuses.
To guide us in this conversation, we are speaking with Dr. Kevin Yee, Director of the Faculty Center at the University of Central Florida. Kevin has held numerous faculty and leadership positions at a range of institutions through his career including USF, Duke, Iowa, Pomona College and UC Irvine.
His research interests within pedagogy are wide, and have included...2023-03-0340 minCentering CentersLet's Chat about ChatGPTToday on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Cynthia Alby, who is Professor of Teacher Education and Faculty Director of Georgia College Journeys, in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA. She shares her perspectives on ChatGPT and how it can catalyze needed change in the teaching landscape of higher education.
Learning that matters: A field guide to course design for transformative education
Website: https://learningthatmatters.weebly.com/resources.html
Media Kit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EB9sls15WITsiRqYUuRyrdoBFTalwktEOv836ISFv5Y/edit?usp=sharing
A link to a specific article referenced: Autumm Caines’ Prior to (or Instead of) Using ChatGPT with Yo...2023-02-1743 minCentering CentersAdvocating for AdjunctsToday on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Teresa Focarile who is the Associate Director for Educational Development at the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at Boise State University. We discussed the many-layered approach they are implementing to support adjunct faculty's professional learning as well as job satisfaction.
Two examples of their Adjunct Faculty Newsletter: April 2022 and November 2021
The link to the POD Special Interest Group (SIG) for Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty (you need to be logged in to the POD website as a member to ac...2023-02-0346 minCentering CentersMedallions and MedicineToday on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Tom Laughner who is the Director of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center Teaching and Learning center, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Our conversation explores his work supporting faculty in the health professions and the successful micro-credentialing program called the Medallion Program.
Learn more about the Medallion initiative!
Transcript of the Interview2023-01-2035 minCentering CentersTake-aways from the In-Person POD ConferenceToday on "Centering Centers", we are speaking with Dana Grossman Leeman who is the Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Tufts University. We discussed her experiences, noticings and wonderings from attending the POD conference in person in Seattle this fall.
Episode Transcript2023-01-0633 minCentering CentersWhat Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through PhotographsThis is Episode 30 and we are speaking with Cassandra Volpe Horii and Martin Springborg about their new free, open-access book: “What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs.” Click on the title to go to access the book through the Elon University's Series on Engaged Learning website.
Cassandra Volpe Horii (@cvhorii) is the associate vice provost for education and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. A former president of the POD Network (2018-19) and founder of educational development centers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Curry College, Cassandra brings her backg...2022-11-1147 minCentering CentersCentering Centering CentersThis is episode 29 of the CC podcast. This is the next installment in our chapter on SoEd. Our guest is Dr. Laura Baecher. Laura is an Associate Professor of TESOL at Hunter College (which is part of cuny system) and she is a leader in their Academic Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.
We know Laura as the founder and co-host of the centering centers podcast and that is the focus of this episode: how it started, how it's going, and where it might go in the future.
Transcript of Episode 29
2022-10-2728 minCentering CentersPower, Positionality, and Peer ReviewThis is Episode 28 of the Centering Centers Podcast. I’m your host for this episode, Lindsay Doukopoulos. I serve as Associate Director for Educational Development in the Biggio Center at Auburn University. I also serve as co-chair of PODs Digital Resources and Innovations committee. This episode is the next installment in our chapter on the Scholarship of Educational Development and today I’m thrilled to speak with Anna Flaming.
Anna L. Bostwick Flaming is Director of the Center for Teaching in the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology and affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexual...2022-10-1438 minCentering CentersUnpacking Failure and Other Threshold Concepts in Academic Development with Julie Timmermans, Co-Editor of IJADJulie Timmermans is a Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Julie is a teacher, researcher, and academic developer with experience facilitating learning in various universities and countries, including Canada, Japan, France, and now, New Zealand. Her research interests focus on academic development and threshold concepts. Julie has been a co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development since 2020.
In this conversation on the Scholarship of Educational Development, we speak with Julie Timmermans to learn how her experiences in multiple institutions and across countries has informed her w...2022-09-3050 minCentering CentersImproving the Academy with Michael Palmer & Lindsay WheelerShould educational development seek to define itself as a discipline? What are the urgent conversations around our research and practice? Is the academy improving?
In today's episode, I am excited to share my conversation with Michael Palmer and Lindsay Wheeler, Co-Editors of To Improve the Academy (TIA for short), which is the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the POD Network. It is an open-access, electronic journal that focuses on educational development practice and research. TIA publishes two issues annually with occasional special issues that respond to the profession and moment: Link to the Journal.
Michael Palmer and...2022-09-1645 minCentering CentersEmbracing the Complexity of SoED with Laura CruzThis is the first episode of our 5th season of Centering Centers which focuses on the Scholarship of Educational Development and I’m thrilled to welcome Laura Cruz today who will give us an overview of the SoED landscape.
Laura Cruz is an associate research professor of Teaching and Learning Scholarship
At Penn State's Schreyer Institute of Teaching Excellence. In addition to authoring numerous articles and launching and leading multiple Centers for teaching and learning, she has served as editor on academic journals including To Improve the Academy and recently co-authored a book that many fo...2022-09-0259 minCentering CentersLessons from Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Part 2: A Master Class in Transformational LeadershipThis is part 2 of Episode 23 of the Centering Centers podcast. This is the second half of our interview with Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of LUMS, which is the top raked university in Pakistan.
In part one of our conversation, Dr. Ahmad shared his journey from a professor of Accounting who struggled with his teaching to 3M National Teaching Fellow - Canada’s most prestigious recognition of teaching at the post-secondary level to director of the MacPherson Institute at McMaster University and now to the ultimate leadership role at LUMS.
In part two, he shares con...2022-08-1243 minCentering CentersLessons from Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Part 1 - From Educational Developer in Canada to Vice Chancellor of Pakistan's Top UniversityThis is episode 23 of the Centering Centers podcast. This is the first of a two part interview with Dr. Arshad Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of LUMS, which is the top raked university in Pakistan.
In part one of our conversation, Dr. Ahmad shares his journey from a professor of Accounting who struggled with his teaching to 3M National Teaching Fellow - Canada’s most prestigious recognition of teaching at the post-secondary level to director of the MacPherson Institute at McMaster University and now to the ultimate leadership role at LUMS. His story is of interest to all educational de...2022-07-2248 minCentering CentersTurning Lonely Fighters into Critical FriendsThis is Episode 22 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. We are speaking with Tracy Zou (@ZouTracy) who has worked as an educational developer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and who has now transitioned back to a faculty role as an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. In addition to teaching, she is an associate editor of IJAD – the International Journal for Academic Development and an editorial member of Asian Journal of th...2022-07-1040 min
Centering CentersConnecting Across the Borders of Difference with the COIL ProgramIn this episode, we speak with Stephanie Doscher, Director of the Office of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) at Florida International University, and Eva Haug, who works as Educational Advisor for Internationalisation of the Curriculum and COIL in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Our conversation focuses on their leadership of COIL programs at their respective institutions, the challenges and opportunities of recruiting and developing faculty to participate, as well as approaches for assessing impacts of the program on students, faculty and developers like themselves. Finally, they share the unique cultural experiences and motivations that brought them together and s...2022-06-2844 minCentering CentersCreating a SoTL CollaboratoryThis is Episode 20 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Laura Lukes, Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus), providing an overview of the Virginia SoTL Collaboratory. Click here for the episode transcript.2022-06-2442 minCentering CentersEthics of SoTLThis is Episode 19 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Jill McSweeney-Flaherty, Educational Developer at the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University, providing insights on how educational developers can approach supporting faculty with the ethics of SoTL research.2022-06-1039 minCentering CentersTeaching as ResearchThis is Episode 18 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Marsha Lovett, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Educational Innovation & Learning Analytics, Director, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation and Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, discussing how a research-mindset is being infused into teaching practice at her institution.
Eberly's Teaching as Research website: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/teaching-as-research/index.html2022-05-2736 minCentering CentersFaculty Leading Faculty: A SoTL InstituteThis is Episode 17 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Maria Gallardo-Williams, Teaching Professor and Director, Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratories and SoTL Faculty Fellow, and Diane Chapman, Executive Director for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Excellence at North Carolina State University, discussing their tips to run successful SoTL faculty institutes. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.
What is SoTL?...2022-05-1342 minCentering CentersA Strategic Framework to Support CETL PlanningThis is Episode 16 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Carlos Guevara, Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Director of the Office of Educational Technology at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Links:
Wolfe, K. S., Lyons, K., & Guevara, C. (Eds.). (2019). Developing Educational Technology at an Urban Community College (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Educational-Technology-Community-College/dp/3...2022-04-2932 minCentering CentersFaculty Identity Shifts: Findings from the SOAR ProjectThis is Episode 15 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Stephanie Laggini Fiore, Assistant Vice Provost, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia discussing the SOAR course redesign initiative that has shown positive impact on high DFW courses. Here is a transcript of the podcast.2022-04-2245 minCentering CentersThe Gold, Silver and Bronze of a Reflective Practitioner ProgramThis is Episode 14 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Nick Monk, Director, and Brian Wilson and Steven Cain, Senior Instructional Designers, Center for Transformative Teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Links:
https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/reflective-practitioner-program-aims-to-recognize-professional-development/
https://teaching.unl.edu/rpp/2022-04-0846 minCentering CentersTurning Lessons Learned from Instructional Coaching into Faculty OnboardingThis is Episode 13 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Andrea Jackson, Instructional Coach, Center for Faculty Development at Fayetteville Technical Community College in North Carolina. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
2022-03-1137 minCentering CentersCultivating our Common Humanity: A Contemplative Practices ProgramThis is Episode 12 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Ileana Hernandez, Assistant Director for Assessment, Evaluation & Development, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Florida International University. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.
FIU's Contemplative Practices in Education initiative
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by...2022-02-2539 minCentering CentersBringing Students to the Table: A Students as Partners ProgramThis is Episode 11 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Mark Hofer, Director, Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation and Professor, School of Education at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.
Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation (STLI) - https://stli.wm.edu/
STLI Student Partner Program - https://stli.wm.e...2022-02-1141 minCentering CentersGetting on the Write Track: The Value of Faculty Writing RetreatsThis is Episode 10 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Kim Case, Director of Faculty Success, and Sharon Zumbrunn, Provost Faculty Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.
Why Aren't You Writing?
The Write Track
www.drkimcase.com2022-01-2859 minCentering CentersOn Podcasting as Personal and Professional DevelopmentThis is Episode 9 and the first episode of Season 2 of "Centering Centers", which is now officially a POD Network podcast! This podcast explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features John Kane, Director, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Rebecca Mushtare, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Oswego talking about their podcast, Tea for Teaching. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Tea for Teaching Podcast
Episode 204, Preventing Workplace Burnout. Tea for Tea...2022-01-1134 min
Centering CentersBackstage SerendipityThis is Episode 8 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Lindsay Doukopoulos, Associate Director of the Educational Development team at Auburn University in Alabama. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.
1. Six Dead Bodies Duct-Taped to a Merry-Go-Round: https://newplayexchange.org/plays/215732/six-dead-bodies-duct-taped-merry-go-round/recommendations
2. Biosensors Show Promise as a Measure of Student Engagement in a Large Introductory Biology Course: https://www...2021-09-2946 minCentering CentersKeeping the Whys and the Hows in MindThis is Episode 7 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Deandra Little, Assistant Provost and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University in North Carolina in conversation with David Green, Director of the Center for Faculty Development at Seattle University in Washington state. Here is a transcript of the podcast.2021-09-291h 02Centering CentersNimble Skill SetsThis is Episode 6 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Isis Artze-Vega, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Valencia College in Central Florida, formerly Assistant Vice President for Teaching and Learning at Florida International University. Here is a transcript of the podcast.2021-08-2440 minCentering CentersThinking InstitutionallyThis is Episode 5 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Susan Shadle, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and founder and former director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
2021-08-2438 minCentering CentersEmbodying Inclusiveness in Educational DevelopmentThis is Episode 4 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Tracie Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning and Director of the Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Here is a transcript of the podcast.
Link to her website with publication links-2021-07-2650 minCentering CentersA Sense of Service and a Sense of GenerosityThis is Episode 3 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Mathew Ouellett, executive director of the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Here is a transcript of the podcast.2021-07-2144 minCentering CentersSome Thoughts from Derek BruffThis is Episode 2 of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Derek Bruff, assistant provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Here is a link to his blog on Jigsaws that we reference in this episode. Here is a transcript of the podcast.2021-06-1855 min
Centering CentersHolding Tight to our Convictions and Lightly to our WaysThis is the first episode of "Centering Centers", a podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Kylie Korsnack, Educational Developer at the University of Richmond in Virginia, USA and Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Berea College, Kentucky, USA. Here is a link to the article they co-wrote that we discussed in this episode. Here is a transcript of the podcast. 2021-06-1143 min