Centering Centers

In this episode, we speak with Stephanie Doscher, Director of the Office of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) at Florida International University, and Eva Haug, who works as Educational Advisor for Internationalisation of the Curriculum and COIL in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Our conversation focuses on their leadership of COIL programs at their respective institutions, the challenges and opportunities of recruiting and developing faculty to participate, as well as approaches for assessing impacts of the program on students, faculty and developers like themselves. Finally, they share the unique cultural experiences and motivations that brought them together and sustain them as leaders and as professional collaborators in this effort to, as Stephanie eloquently put it, "connect faculty and students across the borders of difference." 

Here is a transcript of the conversation. 

Resources for getting in touch with Stephanie and Eva & for getting started and engaging with the COIL program:

• Stephanie Doscher: [email protected]
• Eva Haug: [email protected] (email) & on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/eva-haug-Amsterdam
• FIU COIL: https://coil.fiu.edu, [email protected]
• The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange (forthcoming from Stylus, September 2022)
• COIL Connect
• International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC)
• UNICollaboration
• The Stevens Initiative
• Latin American COIL Network

This is Episode 20 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Laura Lukes, Assistant Professor of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus), providing an overview of the Virginia SoTL Collaboratory.  Click here for the episode transcript.

This is Episode 19 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Jill McSweeney-Flaherty, Educational Developer at the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University, providing insights on how educational developers can approach supporting faculty with the ethics of SoTL research.

This is Episode 18 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Marsha Lovett, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Educational Innovation & Learning Analytics, Director, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation and Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, discussing how a research-mindset is being infused into teaching practice at her institution.

Eberly's Teaching as Research website: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/teaching-as-research/index.html

This is Episode 17 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Maria Gallardo-Williams, Teaching Professor and Director, Organic Chemistry Teaching Laboratories and SoTL Faculty Fellow, and Diane Chapman, Executive Director for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Excellence at North Carolina State University, discussing their tips to run successful SoTL faculty institutes.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

What is SoTL?

2021 SoTL Institute

This is Episode 16 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Carlos Guevara, Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Director of the Office of Educational Technology at Hostos Community College, City University of New York. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

Links:

Wolfe, K. S., Lyons, K., & Guevara, C. (Eds.). (2019). Developing Educational Technology at an Urban Community College (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing.  https://www.amazon.com/Developing-Educational-Technology-Community-College/dp/3030170373. 

https://library.educause.edu/resources/2022/4/2022-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition

This is Episode 15 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Stephanie Laggini Fiore, Assistant Vice Provost, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia discussing the SOAR course redesign initiative that has shown positive impact on high DFW courses. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

This is Episode 14 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Nick Monk, Director, and Brian Wilson and Steven Cain, Senior Instructional Designers, Center for Transformative Teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Here is a transcript of the podcast.

Links:

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/reflective-practitioner-program-aims-to-recognize-professional-development/

https://teaching.unl.edu/rpp/

This is Episode 13 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Andrea Jackson, Instructional Coach, Center for Faculty Development at Fayetteville Technical Community College in North Carolina.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

This is Episode 12 of "Centering Centers", a POD Network podcast that explores the work of Centers of Teaching and Learning and the vision and insights of educational developers in higher education. This episode features Ileana Hernandez, Assistant Director for Assessment, Evaluation & Development, Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Florida International University.  Here is a transcript of the podcast.

Some of the resources mentioned in the podcast are linked below.

• FIU's Contemplative Practices in Education initiative
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness by Rhonda V. Magee
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven
• Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
• Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning by Daniel P. Barbezat and Mirabai Bush
• Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Patricia Owen-Smith
• UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices classes 
• Dr. Mays Imad, neuroscientist & expert on trauma-informed teaching and education
• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the Contemplative Practices Tree