Brian Smith

What do spike fiddles, singing garbage trucks, and Gobi Desert dust storms have in common? To @oberlincollege instructor Kip Hutchins, they are evidence of the cultural exchange practiced between contiguous nations in Northeast Asia. #innovativecourses bit.ly/oberlin-music-…

"It’s important to examine the concept of the traditional ‘nuclear’ family that we see so often portrayed in white America, to better understand the systems of oppression at work." – @RiceUniversity instructor Virginia Thomas #innovativecourses bit.ly/optics-of-kins…

"This planet, this place that we call home, has an extraordinary history prior to the 18th century that is so much more than books have taught us to believe." @Caltech instructor Sandy Rodriguez shares how she brings color into her virtual classroom: bit.ly/visual-narrati…

Read this interview with E-P's Dr. Julie Dobrow about her Creating Children's Media course!

Dr. Julie Dobrow from @TuftsUniversity shares how she designed her interdisciplinary course 'Creating Children's Media', in our round-up of the #MostInnovativeCourses of 2020. @TuftsDaily

"I believe that the best children’s media works on two levels simultaneously: it has to be something that kids are going to respond to, but it also has to be something that their older siblings, or even their parents, would like as well." bit.ly/childrens-media

How can you make your online class more interactive and engaging for students experiencing #ZoomFatigue? We have some ideas: #academicchatter #highered #distancelearning bit.ly/virtual-class-…

The latest from @Campuswire's list of the #MostInnovativeCourses in 2020. @OberlinOES @oberlin_news @oberlincollege @ObieLib

In ‘Drawing: Who’s Telling the Story?’, @JohnsHopkins adjunct instructor Tae Hwang examines the historical usage of propaganda, bias in contemporary media, and data (mis)representation across a variety of visual mediums: #innovativecourses bit.ly/drawing-jhu

In @TuftsUniversity's Cultures of Computing course, instructor Ricky Crano examines the relationship between technological advancement and society in real-time. #MostInnovativeCourses2020 #innovation #highered bit.ly/cultures-of-co…

Join CAT's Learn at Lunch TODAY at 12pm PST to hear about tech instructors can use to communicate with students and strategies to encourage students to communicate with one another outside of class meetings, such as CCLE tools, Slack, and Campuswire. teaching.ucla.edu/event/learn-at…

"Technology can be used for utopian or dystopian means, and what determines the ends of those means are the context the technology resides within, and the intentions of the person wielding it." bit.ly/cultures-of-co…

"There’s a sort of glamour associated with keeping a tiger, but also some underlying insinuations about their exoticism." @Harvard instructor Zoë Eddy discusses @netflix's #TigerKing –– and how the show contributes to Orientalism –– in her new class. bit.ly/megafauna–amon…

Next: learn how interspecies exchange affects environmental and wildlife policy –– and watch #TigerKing –– in @Harvard instructor Zoë Eddy's new class, Megafauna Among Us. bit.ly/megafauna–amon…

"When the pandemic began I got a few emails from colleagues which said, 'we ought to do something for the pandemic'. Well I’m no good at making masks, I certainly don’t know how to make a vaccine, but I do know how to teach people how to build businesses." bit.ly/hacking4recove…

First on our list of the Most Innovative Courses of the 2019/2020 Academic Year: Hacking 4 Recovery, instructed by Professor Steve Blank (@sgblank) at @Stanford University. bit.ly/hacking4recove…

Just walked past Mum recording a lesson for her reception class. Look at that set up 😂 #remotelearning