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Teaching & Learning Buzz - Georgia Tech

14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -

The Teaching and Learning Buzz is the podcast of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology. In the show, CTL faculty, Drs. Carol Subino Sullivan and Rebecca Pope-Ruark, speak with special guests from all over the Institute and beyond about teaching, engaging, mentoring, and supporting Tech students.CTL's envisions a campus culture that creates meaningful learning for all students, empowers people to engage in effective instruction, and values excellence in teaching.

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Episodes

Teaching with the UN's SDGs with Drs. Rebecca Watts Hull and Evan Mallen

May 06, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

In this episode, Carol speaks with Drs. Rebecca Watts Hull and Evan Mallen about the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals and how they can be used effectively in the classroom across disciplines and school.

Buzz Bonus: Designing Your Syllabus for Remote Teaching with Drs. Evan Mallen, Carol Subino Sullivan, and Rebecca Pope-Ruark

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

As part of the Georgia Tech Remote Teaching Academy in Spring 2020, CTL led faculty in a session using the backwards design framework for course development to help faculty move face-to-face courses online for the summer. This episode shares the audio of that live session. While we are looking ahead to fall, this session offers effective and usable tips for designing any syllabus with a focus on student learning objectives. For all resources related to this workshop, visit the CTL blog. You...

Buzz Bonus: Effective Assessment of Remote Student Learning with Drs. Carol Subiño Sullivan and Dr. Troy Courville

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB

As part of the Georgia Tech Remote Teaching Academy in Spring 2020, CTL’s Dr. Carol Subiño Sullivan and Dr. Troy Courville, Director of Assessment & Educational Insights and Director of Learning Design, Professional Education, led faculty in a workshop using a design approach to help instructors identify changes to their assessment plan appropriate for the remote teaching environment. For all resources related to this workshop, visit the CTL blog. You will also find the video of the full se...

Buzz Bonus: Panel Discussion on Teaching Amid Election-Related Stressors

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MB

In this bonus episode, we share a panel of colleagues discussing the challenges of teaching amid stressors like the election and continued stress surrounding this election year. Our panelists include Gordon Moore, Executive Director, Student Diversity and Inclusion Zachary Taylor, Associate Professor, Public Policy Kim Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Carol Subiño Sullivan, Assistant Director, Faculty Teaching and Learning Initiatives, Cente...

Buzz Bonus: Course Engagement Techniques with Dr. Chaohua Ou

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB

Listen to a recording of the Remote Teaching Academy webinar on engaging students in remote courses, especially asynchronous courses. CTL's Dr. Chaohua Ou covers three main aspects of student engagement - communication, connection, and interaction - and shares strategies for each aspect. (Please excuse any brief gaps in the media as we edited the file for brevity.) 

Learning from Experience with Remote/Online/Face-to-Face Courses with Dr. Mary Hudachek-Buswell

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MB

One way we can better understand the pedagogical differences between remote, online, and face-to-face courses is by hearing from peers who have done all three. Dr. Mary Hudachek-Buswell teaches undergraduate courses in the College of Computing, and in the Spring was the only faculty member teaching teaching the College's Data Structures and Algorithm course, one that typically enrolls 700+ students in both face-to-face and online versions. Mary talks to Rebecca and Carol about how she develo...

Talking Well-Being with Dr. Brandy Simula and Joi Alexander.

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 19 MB

In this episode of the Buzz, Carol and Rebecca have a wide ranging conversations about faculty and student well-being, especially burnout and self-care, with Dr. Brandy Simula, Professional  Development Specialist, and Joi Alexander, Director of Health Initiatives.

Understanding Trauma-Informed Pedagogy with Dr. Tiffiny Hughes-Troutman

April 08, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 22.7 MB

In this episode, Carol and Rebecca speak with Dr. Tiffiny Hughes-Troutman, Director of the Center for Assessment, Referral, and Education (CARE), about how faculty can understand trauma and work with students experiencing trauma, especially during the COVID-19 era. 

Remote Teaching Advice from Thank a(n Online) Teacher Recipients with Drs. Polo Chau, Mike Schatz, and Joel Sokol

April 07, 2021 19:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MB

In this bonus episode of the Teaching and Learning Buzz podcast, we share the conversation from the Center for Teaching and Learning's April 7th, 2020, webinar, Keep Teaching: Advice from Thank a(n) Online Teacher Recipients. Rebecca and Carol were joined by our CTL colleague Dr. Vincent Spezzo, Program Manager for Teaching and Learning Online, to talk about some of the behind-the-scenes logistical aspects of teaching remotely, including managing your time in the "always on" remote environme...

Teaching Lab Courses Online with Drs. Ben Galfond, Himani Sharma, and Mike Evans

April 07, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

As remote instruction becomes the main learning platform for our courses for the rest of spring and into summer 2020, one big question on everyone's minds is what to do about lab classes when students don't have access to the lab, to the materials, or to the equipment needed for that hands on learning portion of the courses? In this episode Carol and Rebecca with three faculty members who run lab programs at Georgia Tech. All at different stages of thinking about and/or moving their labs onl...

Making the Switch to Emergency Remote Teaching with Drs. David Joyner and Vincent Spezzo

April 07, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

In this special episode, Carol and Rebecca are joined by two campus experts in online teaching and learning, Dr. David Joyner, Associate Director of Student Experience for the Online Master of Science in Computer Science program, College of Computing, and Dr. Vincent Spezzo, Program Manager of Teaching and Learning Online, Center for Teaching and Learning. As we move to remote teaching for the rest of the Spring semester, David and Vincent share tips and strategies for making the most of the...

Supporting Student Learning with Dr. Susan Blum

April 07, 2021 18:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB

In episode 3 of the Teaching and Learning Buzz podcast, Carol and Rebecca sit down with Dr. Susan Blum, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and keynote speaker at the January 2020 Georgia Tech Retreat on Exploring Effective Teaching (GTREET). In this wide ranging conversations, we talk about how Susan's research moved from culture in China to student plagiarism and motivation, ways that traditional structures and practices in higher education can constrain learning, an...

Faculty's Role in Students Academic Well-Being with Dr. Steve McLaughlin

April 07, 2021 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MB

In Episode 2 of the Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning podcast, Carol and Rebecca chat with Dr. Steve McLaughlin, Professor, Dean*, and Southern Company Chair of the College of Engineering and co-writer of the Inside Higher Ed Opinion message of “A Friend at the Front of the Room”, to discuss his commitment to Georgia Tech students' mental health and how it is affected by their class environments. They also explore how faculty can become more involved in the facilitation of studen...

Grading Practices with Dr. Al Ferri

April 07, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MB

Carol and Rebecca share student perceptions of how grading practices at Tech impact their learning and academic wellbeing and then delve into three different types of grading strategies - traditional, norm-based, and mastery-based. Dr. Al Ferri, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Education and Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, joins us to look at the research he's done on grading practices, his evolving perspective on his own grading, and the ways he works w...