Today we speak with renowned teaching and learning theorist and thought leader Laura I. They suggest steps for how those in higher education leadership can think about systemic changes that would help higher education teaching and learning evolve over time for changing workforces, demographics, and environments. In this episode, Josh and Eddie discuss the disconnect between many institutions’ mission and the work of innovating teaching and learning, as well as the need for an institutional-wide strategy to implement such innovations. What we lack is an understanding of the conditions in which learning science propagates through institutions to change organizational structures and teaching practices.” Kim and Maloney write “We have no shortage of knowledge about how learning works and how this knowledge can be applied to advance teaching. In their recent book Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education (2020), Drs. Send us questions and feedback at we speak with Joshua Kim, Director of Online Programs and Strategy at Dartmouth College, and Edward Maloney, Executive Director of The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. Join our email list or follow us on Twitter to hear about upcoming episodes. Listen on this webpage (below) or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. The resulting tyranny means we fail to educate our students as effectively as we might…The good news is that learned behaviors, sociologically informed reflection, and the application of the research in the scholarship of teaching and learning can liberate us and improve the experiences of teachers and learners alike.”Įpisodes are released every other Thursday and are approximately 30 minutes in length. They are tyranny because we cling to them despite the evidence…Clinging to dead ideas about teaching and learning limits our practice as professors. Pike writes, “Ideas are dead because they are no longer correct, if they ever were. Pike, Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University.

The theme originates from the article “The Tyranny of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning” (The Sociological Quarterly, 2011) by Diane L. To listen to an audio trailer, click here. We hope these radically honest conversations will inspire lightbulb moments for our listeners as they seek to understand their own teaching and learning. Conversations also explore dead ideas exposed by the move to remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Past conversations have focused on dead ideas in topics such as grading, teaching with technology, student motivation, assessment, and neuromyths about learning, to name a few.

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