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Limed: Teaching with a Twist is a podcast that plays with pedagogy. Each episode features the voices and ideas of diverse faculty, staff, and students who workshop our guest's real challenges and opportunities for their classrooms. The show is produced in collaboration with the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University and was created and developed by Matt Wittstein, an Associate Professor of Exercise Science. New episodes release on the third Monday every month. For more information, visit www.centerforengagedlearning.org.
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Designing an Interdisciplinary Capstone, Part 1: Faculty Perspectives
Designing a capstone course is a challenging task that presents an opportunity to innovate. This episode presents some ideas to consider for faculty preparing to teach the capstone course for a new interdisciplinary minor in Global Film and Cultures. Faculty panelists share how to onboard students from diverse backgrounds and wrestle with the tension between providing too much and too little structure in guiding student projects.
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KAPOW! Comic Strip Conversations
Dr. Lynette Carlson collaborated with one of her athletic training students to create comic strip panels that help her discuss topics like inclusion and bias in the context of patient centered care. Now, she is studying how effective it is, and our panel talks about what they like about her idea and other ways to get students to develop cultural responsivity and sensitivity.
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Fostering Diverse Cultural Identities
Tugçe Aldemir is an international faculty member who really wants her students to challenge ideas and even her authority in the classroom. This goal, however, is contrary to her and many of her students’ cultural upbringing. Host and producer, Dhvani Toprani, talks with Azul Bellot, Nermin Vehabovic, and Lisa Wolf-Wendel about various strategies to foster diverse cultural identities.
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PodCases: Using Podcasts to Enhance Case Study Pedagogy
Justin Shaffer from Colorado School of Mines is interested in using popular podcasts to engage his anatomy and physiology students in real-world examples of course concepts. He introduces us to PodCases – Podcasts plus Cast Study – and our panelists share some of their favorite podcasts and pedagogical tips for working with podcasts in a teaching and learning context.
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Understanding and Evaluating Online Course Accessibility
Rafael da Silva teaches online learners how to develop accessible design for e-Learning. While the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) provide a valuable resource for standardizing this practice, our panel of Ann Gagné, Clare Mullaney, and Vanessa Truelove discuss the nuance of accessible design and help Rafael consider ways in which instructors can evaluate and improve accessibility features in their teaching.
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Try a Claim Game
William “Quayd” Snell created a board game, the “Try a Claim Game” to teach his students how to be better at argumentation. Panelists Sophie Miller, Pratheep Paranthaman, and Shane Wood talk about elements of game design that support student engagement and share some small tweaks that might be useful if you are thinking about using games in your classroom.