Category: TechTalk Podcast

Posts for episodes of the UP Tech Talk podcast, discussing issues around education and technology.

S05E03: Hand Made Videos that Teach Hands On Skills

Getting students up to speed with hands on technical skills can be challenging, especially when students are coming to class with a wide variety of experience levels.  For engineering students, fundamentals like using a multimeter are basic skills needed to move on to bigger projects.  Dr. Shaz  Vijlee, Assistant Professor of Engineering, decided to make…Continue Reading S05E03: Hand Made Videos that Teach Hands On Skills

S05E02: Putting Faculty in the Seat of Students with Online Learning

Bootcamps are usually designed to get participants up and running quickly with a new skillset provided they’re willing to use plenty of elbow grease.  Imagine, if you will, a kinder, gentler bootcamp.  That’s what Dr. Lindsay Benes and Dr. Joanne Olsen had in mind when they teamed up with Instructional Design & Technology Specialist Ben…Continue Reading S05E02: Putting Faculty in the Seat of Students with Online Learning

S05E01: Connecting Student Learning to Real-World Outcomes with Project Based Learning

Peter Pappas designs learning experiences that provoke reflection.  The UP School of Education adjunct instructor is known for pairing tech tools with creative assignments that lead to students having an external audience for their work, working as professionals do in a more public environment. Utilizing the concepts of Project Based Learning, Pappas’s students have developed multi-touch…Continue Reading S05E01: Connecting Student Learning to Real-World Outcomes with Project Based Learning

What is Digital Pedagogy?

Dr. Bonnie Stachowiak is the Director of Teaching Excellence and Digital Pedagogy at Vanguard University in Anaheim, CA.  She hosts the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast and regularly covers cutting-edge topics in teaching and technology on her show.  She gave a recent presentation at the Lily Conference in Anaheim on increasing learner agency in the…Continue Reading What is Digital Pedagogy?

JOMO not FOMO

Professor Lars Larson is a self-described “Facebook Refusenik” and “a social media illiterate”. He doesn’t have a cell phone and he talks about the Joy Of Missing Out rather than the Fear Of Missing Out. But he is fascinated by technology. “It’s an illusion to think we’re missing out,” the English literature scholar said. “When we…Continue Reading JOMO not FOMO