Category: TechTalk Podcast

This week Dr. Randy Hetherington joins the Techtalk crew to discuss lessons learned in his thirty-two-year career as a teacher and administrator who has seen multiple waves of new technologies come and go. For Dr. Hetherington, the key to ensuring that the enhancements technology can bring to teaching and learning reach all students is to…Continue Reading Relationships Are Key for Technology Enhanced Education

With shifts in nursing education moving from problem-based learning to concept-based learning, Professor Joanne Olsen was searching for a tool that would give her students a visual representation of the linkage between concepts in one of her courses.  Wanting to work on her iPad, she found a mind mapping tool called iThoughts and developed a mind…Continue Reading Mind Mapping Illuminates Links Between Concepts

Welcome to the craft economy. It’s not just for beer anymore. While we’ve been taking a sneak peak at the landscape of higher education in “The Future of Learning” series, our last installment explores how the world of business is likely to shape learning.  New strategic partnerships that delve into the needs of local businesses…Continue Reading The Future of Learning – Higher Ed in the Craft Economy

Hala Jadid al Kash is a faculty member with IES Abroad in Granada, Spain, who teaches courses on Arabic language, social media, and Islamic culture to American study abroad students.   In this podcast, she explains how she uses social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, as a tool to develop intercultural awareness by connecting students…Continue Reading Connecting Students to Authentic Voices in the Arab World

What does it mean to be a human being?  Answering the big questions starts with paying attention to the little things like how we use technology, says theologian and scholar Dr. David Turnbloom.  It’s the little things that create a foundation for ethical behavior. Are we magnifying the good in creation or perpetuating the not…Continue Reading The Future of Learning – Ethics Matter Now and Later