Latest Highered heroes Podcast Episodes
'Apply first, explain later': using a photo treasure hunt to draw out core academic concepts for student learning
Higher Ed Heroes - May 02, 2024 23:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Paul Treschman, who teaches in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences here at UQ. Paul makes his students learn according to the motto ‘apply first – explain later’ and he illustrates this through the example of a photo treasure hunt his students do on ca...
Using film documentary making for student learning and assessment
Higher Ed Heroes - April 11, 2024 21:00 - 15 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Associate Professor Peter Walters, who is an urban sociologist and an expert in urban community at The University of Queensland. Peter has won numerous awards for teaching excellence and has integrated film documentary making in his courses for both student learning a...
Preparing students for the cognitive and emotional uncertainties they will face in their future professions
Higher Ed Heroes - March 03, 2024 22:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Roma Forbes. Roma is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at UQ. And one of motivations that drive her teaching is the question of how to enhance the students’ experience, in particular, how to get them better prepa...
What can generative AI bring to our classroom?
Higher Ed Heroes - February 11, 2024 22:00 - 23 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Dan Levy who teaches courses in quantitative methods, policy analysis, and program evaluation in the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. There are lots of worries, discussions, and myths surrounding generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), s...
Catering for students who are struggling or are at the risk of failing
Higher Ed Heroes - November 14, 2023 15:00 - 13 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Poh Wah Hillock. Poh is a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Physics here at The University of Queensland. Facing high failure rates in her first year mathematics course, Poh has responded by specifically designing a support tutorial for her students ...
Using board games, digital escape rooms, and online scenario games in your classroom
Higher Ed Heroes - October 20, 2023 14:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we talk to UQ’s Shakira Moss and Russell Richards about how they integrate educational board games, digital escape rooms, and online scenario games into their courses, and even design these games for learning themselves.
The dos and don’ts of PowerPoint presentations
Higher Ed Heroes - September 17, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Jo’Anne Langham (UQ Ventures) about how to design your slides in the right way and why it really matters to design with the mind in mind. If you want to avoid death by PowerPoint and move towards designing your visuals or slides like a pro, this is the episode for you...
Helping students learn through cohort building and a strong sense of belonging
Higher Ed Heroes - August 26, 2023 01:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode, we talk with A/Prof Zala Volcic (School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia) about how student learning can be enhanced through care, compassion, and a sense of belonging. By talking about what we would call ‘compassionate pedagogy’, Zala shares many pr...
Learning across cultures
Higher Ed Heroes - August 06, 2023 01:00 - 21 minutesPeter Lewis teamed up with colleagues from 18 unis across the world to co-teach one common course, in real time and online, for the benefit of cross-cultural learning on topics ranging from COVID to climate change. In this episode, Peter recounts how his team built this course step by step, how ...
Integrating regular practical, self-experiential, and collaborative spaces (‘MediaLabs’) into your courses to deepen student learning
Higher Ed Heroes - July 18, 2022 22:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode, Dr Seb Kaempf (usually one of our podcast co-hosts) turns interviewee to share with us how he integrates regular, 3-hour-long practical, self-experiential spaces (called ‘MediaLabs’) into his course to deepen student learning. It’s about enabling students to ‘get their hands’ di...
Learning through ‘trench warfare’ and wicked problems: Students as proper consultants with real world business clients
Higher Ed Heroes - June 27, 2022 23:00 - 16 minutesOur guest in this episode is Dr Sarel Gronum (Business School at the University of Queensland), whose Masters students get thrown into proper, several week long, consultancy projects with real world business clients. Besides the challenge of building this flagship course and how he had to fine t...
Reassuring students, reducing uncertainty, and building student confidence and competence
Higher Ed Heroes - June 02, 2022 22:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode, we talk to A/Prof Allison Mandrusiak (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland). Coordinating a cardiorespiratory physiotherapy course, Allie has built a model hospital to replicate real clinical practices and even lets her student play card...
The iron law of teaching: Bringing a buzz and energy into the lecture room
Higher Ed Heroes - May 12, 2022 01:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Professor Chris Reus-Smit (University of Queensland) about lecturing as a performance art, about the essence of being physical, animated, and enthusiastic in order to draw students into the learning content.
Make yourself uncomfortable: How making the familiar strange helps students learn
Higher Ed Heroes - April 18, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to Dr Rebecca Olive (RMIT Australia) about how students in human movement studies learn by taking on an unfamiliar sport for six weeks. It is about experiencing the strangeness of the familiar, about self-reflection, and about the development of (self)compassion.
Higher Ed Heroes: The zen of presentation design and delivery (with Garr Reynolds)
Higher Ed Heroes - March 27, 2022 02:00 - 17 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to Professor Garr Reynolds (University in Osaka) about how to design and deliver powerful presentations, how to avoid death by powerpoint, and how the best learning comes through doing.
Higher Ed Heroes: How can we make those difficult or unpopular topics accessible and fun learning for students?
Higher Ed Heroes - March 06, 2022 23:00 - 21 minutesWe have all been there: having to teach a topic which is either difficult to grasp or that we know is unpopular with students. How can make these topics accessible and bring them alive in a fun way to help students learn? Dr Suzanna Fay (The University of Queensland) faced these challenges when ...
Higher Ed Heroes: How can we make those difficult or unpopular topics accessible and fun learning for students?
Higher Ed Heroes - March 06, 2022 23:00 - 21 minutesWe have all been there: having to teach a topic which is either difficult to grasp or that we know is unpopular with students. How can make these topics accessible and bring them alive in a fun way to help students learn? Dr Suzanna Fay (The University of Queensland) faced these challenges when ...
Higher Ed Heroes: Entering the lecture room for the first time
Higher Ed Heroes - February 13, 2022 20:00 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to Kiri Ingram and Dr Andrew Dougall (both at UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies) about starting out as lecturers, about the nerves, the challenges, imposter syndromes, and the dos and don'ts.
Weekly journal writing to help student reflection, build trusting relations and create nourishing environments
Higher Ed Heroes - January 24, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to Dr Fabiane Ramos (School of Culture and Languages & School of Education, UQ) and Dr Laura Roberts (Flinders University) about their use of weekly journal writing as a way to help students reflect about course content (and as it relates to their own lives), to ...
Higher Ed Heroes: '20 Minute Moments': Opening up your class to place key lessons
Higher Ed Heroes - January 03, 2022 20:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode, Associate Professor Al Stark (usually one of our podcast co-hosts) turns interviewee to share with us what he calls '20 Minute Moments': it's about stopping the lecture, exposing students to a practical, fun, interactive, but ultimately meaningful activity that allows students t...
Higher Ed Heroes: What factors have the biggest impact on student learning? With John Hattie
Higher Ed Heroes - November 16, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb speak to Prof John Hattie (University of Melbourne) about the few key factors that have the biggest impact on student learning. Based on analysis of more than 300 million students from around the globe (the world’s largest evidence-based study), John Hattie identified...
Higher Ed Heroes: 'Escape Box' exercise and learning through team work
Higher Ed Heroes - October 28, 2021 01:00 - 16 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Leigh Sperka (Lecturer UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences) about the ‘escape box’ exercise and learning through team work.
Higher Ed Heroes: 'Me in a Minute' Video
Higher Ed Heroes - October 10, 2021 19:00 - 17 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Karin Sellberg (The University of Queensland), who uses the production of short videos – ‘me in a minute’ – as a form of assessment. How does this exercise work and how does it foster student learning?
Higher Ed Heroes: The centrality of role plays in student learning
Higher Ed Heroes - February 03, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Associate Professor Phil Orchard (University of Wollongong), who has designed his courses around simulations and role plays. Why are these so central to Phil's teaching, how do they differ and how can we effectively use different formats in our classroom?
Higher Ed Heroes: Talking to tutors about being an effective teacher
Higher Ed Heroes - January 20, 2021 06:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to two experienced and excellent tutors, Dr Federica Caso and Robert Arcidiacono, about all things tutoring: how to be an effective tutor, how to guide, how to handle respond to challenging situations, and how to bring a tutorial/seminar alive.
Higher Ed Heroes: Techniques to make students read
Higher Ed Heroes - January 04, 2021 03:00 - 20 minutesIn the first episode in 2021, Al and Seb talk to Dr Tom Chodor (Monash University) about the ways he has experimented with and ultimately refined different techniques to ensure that students actually do the readings before rocking up for class.
HigherEd Heroes - Different ways of using simulations and role plays
Higher Ed Heroes - December 10, 2020 19:00 - 30 minutesIn this episode, Seb and Al discuss with Associate Professor Matt McDonald (The University of Queensland) everything simulations and role play: different ways they can be employed; how to mark them; and how they can enable students to learn if done well.
HigherEd Heroes - How to grab and hold the attention of students in large first year lectures
Higher Ed Heroes - November 29, 2020 08:00 - 24 minutesIn this episode, Al and Seb talk to Associate Professor Sarah Percy (The University of Queensland) and Professor David J Hornsby (Carleton University) about about the art of the lecture. In particular, they discuss the tricks and techniques they employ to grab and hold the attention of students ...
Higherd Heroes - Scrapping Exams and making students learn through solving practical, real-world problems
Higher Ed Heroes - November 20, 2020 05:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we are talking to Prof. Lydia Kavanagh (School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, UQ) who decided to get rid of exams in her courses and who instead offers learning exercises where students collaborate on solving practical, open-ended, real-world problems.
HigherEd Heroes - How to make students learn through researching the impact of real world problems
Higher Ed Heroes - November 01, 2020 22:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we talk to Dr Kim de Rijke (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, The University of Queensland) on how he makes his students learn through research activities that focus on the social impact of real world development projects.
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