Let's talk about getting students involved during lectures. Megan and Shannon talk about tips for keeping students engaged and receptive during lecture classes.

Join us for a discussion about considering how generational influences affect our class interactions. Particularly in our online classes, it is common to have traditional and non-traditional students in the same course which means that we may need to consider how students from different generations think and tend to prefer their information.

Learn some innovative ideas from Dr.s Brad A. Modlin and Theodora Ziolkowski, Creative Writing professors at UNK. Brad and Theodora help us consider how online settings actually open doors for engaging opportunities that we may not have easy access to in our face-to-face class settings.

Visit the website for the masters program here: https://www.unk.edu/academics/english/english-master-of-arts.php

Are you thinking about conducting research on your own class or including your students as participants? Join us for this conversation about things to think about during the planning stages to avoid issues of coercion or ethical conflicts.

For those who want to look over the Belmont Report, here's a link: https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/index.html

Megan and Shannon bring you quick information in this Flash POD related how you might look at teaching and learning from a Humanistic point of view. Practitioners of this theory consider the whole person (emotions and all) and also think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs when approaching teaching.

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Kurt Borchard who uses a form of self-study in his research and in his classroom practices. Learn about how systematically reflecting on and sharing our personal experiences is not just a valuable personal practice, it is also a useful teaching and research method.

Selected References:

Borchard, K. (2023). 2021: A pandemic odyssey. Journal of Autoethnography, 4(4), 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.521

Borchard, K. (2023). Conceptual autoethnography: Every third line from work emails I sent in 2021. Knowledge Cultures, 2(1), 124-149.

Ever wonder what people mean when they say they're a teacher-scholar? Join us for a conversation with three successful teacher-scholars on our campus, UNK's Interim Chancellor, Dr. Charlie Bicak; Dean of Graduate Studies and Academic Innovation, Dr. Mark Ellis; and former Dean of Arts and Science, long time faculty member in political science, and undergraduate research mentoring guru, Dr. Peter Longo. Hear how they have embraced opportunities within academia, and specifically programs at UNK, to connect with students, improve their teaching, have an impact on the community, and also advance scholarship in their fields.

Join Jennifer Harvey (Director of Thompson Scholars Learning Community), Dr. Amber Alexander, and Dr. Krista Forrest in a discussion about setting up your office to be a welcoming and student-centered space.