Drew Koch: Relationships are the most important feature of successful innovation! Harnessing relationship-rich learning environments can result in transformative change, inspired by the work of @peterfelten.bsky.social, Leo Lambert, @isisartzevega.bsky.social, and Oscar Miranda Tapia. #Gardner25

Celebrating (wooooohoooo!) the release of my new book, Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (@oupress.bsky.social) with a refreshed website. Find info & bonus open access materials on the Books page: jessamynneuhaus.com/books

Historians - as you think about the new semester, consider this first-day exercise as a way to get conversation going about what historians *actually* do, and the context within which we do it. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Excited to see this one out! I got to read an advance copy and it is a great read. Kudos @dgooblar.bsky.social!

I'm excited to see this article with @peterfelten.bsky.social published in Change: "Learning and Teaching with AI". We draw on three 'big' books on AI and link them to, among other things, discussion of Kapur's ideas of productive & unproductive failure & success www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Highly recommend this piece by D. Graham Burnett that really grapples with the fact that LLMs can produce an incredibly convincing simulation of human thought, but also why we can't treat the simulation as the same was what happens when humans think. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I love this - confronting low attendance and disengement by making students feel like they matter rather than jumping to the-lecture-is-dead or banning recordings. #AcademicSky www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-a...

New exhibit on campus about US & UK propaganda posters from world wars, curated by a fab Elon University student. Which of these seems most appropriate for today?

Have you heard about the virtual gathering for #EducationalDevelopers #EdDevs? We are especially interested in platforming presenters who are not typically lead presenter. This is your time to shine #InCommunity #SoTL #SoED! #Gather2Resist25 bit.ly/VirtualGathe...

Today on the podcast, another Take It or Leave It panel! Three amazing guests -- @liznorell.bsky.social, @bbarre.bsky.social, and Bryan Dewsbury -- discuss recent hot takes on teaching and learning. It's artificial binaries and deep discussion! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...

I had the best time chatting with Christopher Richmann for the Professors Talk Pedagogy podcast. You can listen in at this link! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social I think this links well to our work on what makes students trust teachers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For over 20 years, I've been at schools affiliated w the Council of Independent Colleges; in my experience, CIC has been an unflinching advocate for higher education. So I'm unsurprised, but still heartened, to see this from CIC president Marjorie Hass today. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

My new book is here! In this book I draw upon my research with students and educators to examine how we might find meaningful ways to be critical in contemporary times. The book considers some ways we might enact a relational critical practice

Can we change the quality and status of teaching in higher education? @joniuzzini.bsky.social and I explore that with insights from books by @xueliwang.bsky.social, Mary Wright, & Corbin Campbell. Our answer: only if we do this together. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QZXTN...

New on the UVA Teaching Hub: A collection of resources on the use of self-study to reflect on and document one's teaching, curated by Cynthia Korpan from the U. of Victoria. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...

These will be excellent -- Michael Reder, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad are amazing individually and together.

So much fun to talk with @bonni208.bsky.social & Kassidy Puckett about relationship-rich education at scale. 1-on-1 interactions are great, but what about teaching dozens or hundreds of students? We talk new research on Teaching in Higher Ed @tihe.bsky.social: teachinginhighered.com/podcast/rela...

my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th... if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)

Powerful, inspiring new book by Adriana Aldana, Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance. This (open access/free) book (to quote book site) introduces "a tool to challenge dominant cultural narratives & amplify marginalized voices in HE" doi.org/10.36284/cel...

Join @kiftsally.bsky.social and many, many other brilliant colleagues at this online conference in June!

Kassidy Puckett & I analyzed ~2000 faculty responses about 'what works' to build classroom relationships with/among HE students. We find 4 main categories: (1) empathy, (2) collaboration/group work, (3) individual interactions, (4) personal stories. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/what-works-w...

Learning is, at root, a social activity. For it to be most meaningful, learning has to be done in community. Content delivery is not learning. Plug-and-chug autograded virtual worksheets are not learning.

Higher ed. book of the day: Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College —the classic by @peterfelten.bsky.social and Leo Lambert. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social #StudentSuccess #HigherEd

Thank you @pankisseskafka.bsky.social for this gift: "(Keep in mind: You do not need hours and hours of uninterrupted bliss to commune with Lady Intellect. That is a myth invented by male scholars in the 1950s so they could neglect their families.)" www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Smart conversation about the long-term outcomes of undergraduate research - with implications for how we think about inquiry, belonging, and vocation in higher education. Give this a listen! teachinginhighered.com/546 Thanks to @bonni208.bsky.social for the podcast.

This is a fantastic paper for anyone interested in students and well-being in higher education.

New research from Sweden shows that higher ed course design is at least as important as teaching/teacher for both student engagement & student perceptions of course quality. Implication: teaching evaluation forms should ask about course design at least as much as teaching. doi.org/10.1007/s107...

So what are the barriers to creating relationship-rich educational environments within Higher Education? Kassidy Puckett and Peter Felten explore what over 1800 faculty have to say! www.centerforengagedlearning.org/what-are-bar...

Proud to have launched this with an incredible team. Was a long journey, but definitely worth it. Please enjoy this report on some of the incredible equity-based practices institutions are doing to promote student success. transformlearning.everylearnereverywhere.org/equity-teach...

Hi @peterfelten.bsky.social I was posting about your work with Rachel Forsyth and Mirjam Glessmer @lunduniversity.bsky.social recently. Mirjam wrote a great blog post mirjamglessmer.com/2024/10/16/w...