What Learning Looks Like

A conversation between AS TEI’s Lucy Appert and Guy Ortolano , Professor and Chair in the NYU History Department. Guy is an award-winning teacher and pedagogy innovator who is passionate about the power of survey courses to create lifelong learners. Show NotesKen Bain, What the Best College Teachers DoDaniel F. Chambliss & Christopher G. Takacs, How College Works 2024 Teaching Innovation Award how-to handout “Interactive Journals to Evaluate Student Learning in Large (Humanities) Classes” St. Crispin’s Day speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V Complexities, First Year Seminar in NYU’s College Core Curriculum

A conversation with Amanda Irvin, Executive Director of the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning.Show Notes: Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning podcastMitchell J. Nathan, Kenneth R. Koedinger, and Martha W. Alibali, “Expert Blind Spot: When Content Knowledge Eclipses Pedagogical Content Knowledge”Joshua Eyler: https://olemiss.edu/profiles/jreyler.php Jesse Stommel: www.jessestommel.com/books/Todd Zakrajsek: https://www.toddzakrajsek.com/publicationsThe Critical Thinking Institute at UC BerkeleyAmbrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. Jossey-Bass/Wiley. Alfredo Spagna: https://podcast.show/dead-ideas/episode/94165225/ Michelle Miller: https://www.michellemillerphd.com/books Carl Weiman: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carl-wieman?tab=publications

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Bridget McFarland, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU, who has been using alternative or contract grading in her first year writing course for the past four years. Show NotesMercer Street:  https://wp.nyu.edu/mercerstreet/EWP Course Objectives: https://cas.nyu.edu/ewp/ewp-courses.htmlAsao B. Inoue, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, 2nd Edition”DasBender, Gita, Mickelson, Nate, Souffrant, Leah. “Contract Grading and the Development of an Efficacious Writerly Habitus” (2023) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c4979b8

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John Henssler, Clinical Professor and Director of Undergraduate Organic Teaching Laboratories in the NYU Chemistry Department.Show NotesLearn more about Professor John Henssler

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John O’Hara, Director of Faculty Engagement and Program Innovation in the College of Arts & Science’s Office of Academic Affairs. Show NotesAmerican Association of Colleges & Universities: High Impact Practices NYU College of Arts & Science First Year Seminar ProgramJohn Gardner, Launching the First Year Experience Movement  

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Scott Palmer, Senior Coordinator for Digital Learning and Innovation at NYU’s La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy. Scott has been a professor and administrator at La Pietra for more than two decades. Show NotesWalker Percy, “The Loss of the Creature” https://archive.org/details/loss_creature/page/n3/mode/2up Florence Underground, NYU Florence Student Radio Project https://www.novaradio.info/programmi/nyu-florence-radio/ Radio Assignment Rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNNj0ZLMXcuzlcPEzwc4KU0q7cve91lP5qJgdQNdCDE/edit?tab=t.0 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson (1983).“Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production” by Scott Palmer, https://wp.nyu.edu/ls-thinkglobalteachlocal/2018/05/04/political-objects-blending-cultural-analysis-and-artistic-production/

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Professor Eugene Plavskin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Biology. Eugene is course director for the Principles of Biology introductory course, which has more than 700 students each fall.Show Notes"Enhancing Student Success:  Using Peer-Led Video Modules to Teach Metacognition & the Hidden Curriculum in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biology Course"

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and University Learning Center director Christopher Whitehead, who is Assistant Dean for Academic Support & Development in the College of Arts & Science. Show notesChris’s Gen Chem 1 Vlog: ​​Kyla Scanlon, “The Most Valuable Quality in the World Is Friction” https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014) How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, Benedict Cary (20140.Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/04/EBjork_RBjork_2011.pdf