Resilient Pedagogy

Episode based on the book chapter, Creating Adaptable Courses: A Course Design Approach that Accommodates Flexible Delivery.

Kosta Popović is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. He is passionate about the role fundamental STEM courses play in engineering education and enjoys teaching Introductory Physics, Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging courses.

Eric Reyes is an Associate Professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology within the Department of Mathematics. As a statistician, he enjoys collaborating with medical students within the rural health track at the IU School of Medicine in Terre Haute and undergraduate Biology majors at Rose-Hulman.

Kay C Dee is the Associate Dean of Learning & Technology and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She currently teaches engineering design and regulatory affairs courses. Making academic change happen is her vocation.

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Guests: Kosta Popović, Eric Reyes, and Kay C Dee | Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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Episode based on James Lang's book, Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It.

James M. Lang, Ph.D. is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (Basic Books, 2020), Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2016) and Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty (Harvard University Press, 2013), and On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard UP, 2008). He is a former Professor of English and Director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University.

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Guest: James Lang | Host: Travis Thurston

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Episode based on the book chapter, Resilient and Flexible Teaching (RAFT): Integrating a Whole-Person Experience into Online Teaching.

Christina Fabrey is the Associate Dean of advising and academic achievement at Prescott College in Arizona. Christina is a certified life and ADHD coach and is a contributing author of Becoming Self-determined: Creating Thoughtful Learners in a Standards-Driven Admissions Frenzied Culture from editors Field & Parker.

Heather Keith is the Executive Director of faculty development and Professor of Philosophy at Radford University. She is co-author of Intellectual Disability Ethics, Dehumanization, and a new moral community, and Lives and Legacies of People with Intellectual Disabilities, and co-editor of Pragmatists and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience.

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Guests: Christina Fabrey & Heather Keith | Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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Episode based on the book chapter, Advancing an Approach of Resilient Design for Learning by Designing for Extensibility, Flexibility, and Redundancy. 

Rebecca M. Quintana is the Learning Experience Design Lead at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan (U-M). She is also an Intermittent Lecturer at U-M's School of Education.

Jacob Fortman is the Learning Experience Design Certificate Coordinator at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan.

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Guests: Rebecca Quintana & Jacob Fortman | Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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Episode based on the book chapter, How Adult Learning Can Inform Optimal Online Learning.

David Noffs currently works as a Learning Designer, Faculty Developer, and Lecturer at Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies. Planning and designing transformative learning experiences has become his life’s work.

Krissy Wilson currently works as a Senior Learning Designer at Northwestern's School of Professional Studies. She also teaches Professional Writing for Business online at DePaul University. She is an advocate for curricular excellence, innovation in design and technology, universal design for learning, and superior student engagement and experience.

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Guests: Dr. David Noffs & Krissy Wilson | Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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Episode based on the book chapter, Resilient Pedagogy and Self-Determination: Unlocking Student Engagement in Uncertain Times

Dr. Lindsay Masland is the Assistant Director of Faculty Professional Development for Appalachian State University, where she also serves as an Associate Professor of Psychology. In her ideal world, her days are filled with thinking and talking about transformative education and pedagogical disobedience in higher ed, and based on her various roles, she's not too far off from that ideal.

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Guest: Dr. Lindsay Masland | Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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Episode based on the introduction book chapter from, Resilient Pedagogy: Practical Teaching Strategies to Overcome Distance, Disruption, and Distraction.

Dr. Thurston directs the Office of Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) at Utah State University. Travis leads all instructional development programming and facilitates the ETE 10 Professional Learning Pathways microcredentialing program to support instructors in evidence-based and reflective teaching practice. With over a decade of experience as an educator in K-12 and higher education, Travis holds a Master of Educational Technology (M.E.T.) degree from Boise State University with a grad certificate in Online Teaching, and a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from Utah State University. 

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Host: Dr. Travis Thurston

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