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Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours with Dr. Justin Shaffer: Daily Summaries Delivered
by Justin Shaffer | STEM Education Expert and Professor
This is not your typical higher education interview podcast.Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours is a call-in advice show dedicated to YOU, the instructors, professors, TAs, and administrators in the trenches of STEM higher education. Whether you are teaching a large gateway STEM course or a small senior seminar, this show is for you.With over 13 years of experience and having taught more than 10,000 students, your host, Dr. Justin Shaffer, has seen it all. Each week, he (and sometimes with guest co-hosts) unpacks your listener-submitted questions to provide practical and actionable strategies on STEM pedagogy, student success, academic careers, and everything in between. Let’s work together to keep on improving STEM education.Have a question? Click the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http
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- 2 weeks ago15 min
What do we do about retake culture?
Justin's former lab mate Alli joins the show to ask about what high school teachers should do to prepare students for college, but the conversation takes a dive into retake culture where students are allowed to retake summative assessments. Justin and Alli discuss the pros and cons of this method and how to best prepare students to succeed using it.Alli Weiner taught high school science for 10 years and now designs and teaches programming at the Allen Institute’s education lab in Seattle. Learn more about Alli here. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alli-wiener/https://alleninstitute.org/educationWant to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- 3 weeks ago19 min
Are learning objectives dead?
Jim Hutchins returns to the show to ask a provocative question: are learning objectives dead? Listen up to see how this one goes!Jim Hutchins spent 45 years teaching medical and allied health students. Now he tries to bring beneficence and justice to students by creating free learning materials. You can follow him and find his materials on SubStack and LinkedIn. Jim welcomes collaborations. A learner at ANY level can contribute.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- 4 weeks ago13 min
How can interleaving be used to improve student learning?
On this episode Justin chats with Akshata Naik about how to use interleaving and other techniques to improve student learning, especially in an anatomy and physiology course.Dr. Akshata Naik, an assistant professor and physiology educator at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, located in Michigan, roughly 30 miles north of Detroit. Learn more about her at the links below.https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatarnaik/https://www.anaikowl.com/Here is a link to the core concepts in physiology book that Akshata referred to.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together. Check out Justin's website to learn more.www.recombinanteducation.com
- Oct 12, 202615 min
How do you build ADA guidelines into your digital course materials?
Alison Roth joins the show to discuss the pertinent question of building accessibility into our digital course materials given the upcoming ADA deadline. More importantly, though Alison and Justin how this should be a normal part of your coursework and how this will leave lasting impacts once done.Alison Roth is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Medical Physics at Purdue University. Check out her work here: https://hhs.purdue.edu/mp-learning-lab/Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- Oct 2, 202612 min
How you can you add active learning without doing a full course redesign?
On this episode Justin answers a time-old question about how to add active learning without taking up a lot of time to do a complete course overhaul.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- Sep 30, 202621 min
OER, UDL, LMS and more fun acronyms
Jim Hutchins joins the show and chats with Justin about a host of issues related to proper course design and Edtech. Listen up, but bring your acronym dictionary with you! :)Jim Hutchins spent 45 years teaching medical and allied health students. Now he tries to bring beneficence and justice to students by creating free learning materials. You can follow him and find his materials on SubStack and LinkedIn. Jim welcomes collaborations. A learner at ANY level can contribute.Get some of Justin's teaching materials here.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- Sep 23, 202614 min
Is PowerPoint bad?
Murray Jensen from the University of Minnesota joins the show to poke and prod Justin with the question of is PowerPoint bad for teaching? As an avid PPT user, Justin pushes back but who wins the argument?Murray Jensen is at the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Sciences, where he teaches introductory physiology and oversees a dual-enrollment program. Email him at msjensen@umn.edu for copies of his A&P teaching materials!Here is the link to the Death by PowerPoint comedy routine video.Get some of Justin's teaching materials here.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
- Sep 21, 202613 min
What is yoru advice on online quizzes for instructors and students?
Justin answers a great question about the use of online quizzes by both instructors and students. As always, the answer depends on the situation, but Justin tries to give advice on using them in a variety of contexts.Get some of Justin's teaching materials including reading guides here.Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question!Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together.www.recombinanteducation.com
About Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours with Dr. Justin Shaffer
This is not your typical higher education interview podcast.Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours is a call-in advice show dedicated to YOU, the instructors, professors, TAs, and administrators in the trenches of STEM higher education. Whether you are teaching a large gateway STEM course or a small senior seminar, this show is for you.With over 13 years of experience and having taught more than 10,000 students, your host, Dr. Justin Shaffer, has seen it all. Each week, he (and sometimes with guest co-hosts) unpacks your listener-submitted questions to provide practical and actionable strategies on STEM pedagogy, student success, academic careers, and everything in between. Let’s work together to keep on improving STEM education.Have a question? Click the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http
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