All Episodes

Higher Ed: Holding On Tight Is Easier Than Letting Go. Why We Need To Learn How To Do Both Well.

Higher Ed: Learning From Failure (And Then Letting It Go)

Higher Ed: Be Grateful For The Frustration That Can Come With Learning. You’ll Learn From That, Too.

Higher Ed: Really Good At Something In School Or Work? Beware Of The “Success Trap”

Higher Ed: Want An Exciting Life? Ask This Question At Graduation (Or Anytime, Really)

Higher Ed: The Key To Dissipating Regret? Use It To Spur Action And Change

Higher Ed: Letting Go Of The “Noise” To Prioritize Better In School And Life

Higher Ed: How To Keep Tired Students Engaged? Help Them Produce – Not Just Consume – Knowledge

Higher Ed: I’m Content. And Comfortable. And Don’t Want To Change. Learn How To Do It Anyway.

Higher Ed: “We’re Not Machines” – Engaging Your Heart And Your Head In Learning

Higher Ed: Want To Prevent Students From Dropping Out? Provide More Support, Realistic Expectations

Higher Ed: For Some Teachers “It’s Not A Matter Of Being Nice But Setting Great Expectations”

Higher Ed: Surviving And Succeeding During Freshman Year In College (Or Through Any Big Life Change)

Best of “Higher Ed:” The Biases We Bring To Information And Learning (They’re Complicated)

Best of “Higher Ed:” The Well-Read Grown-Up

Best of “Higher Ed:” Why The College Major May Matter Less Than We’ve Always Thought

Best of “Higher Ed:” Effective Correction

Best of “Higher Ed:” How Much Is Too Much On A College Application?

Higher Ed: Yes, Extra Credit Can Enhance Learning – But Don’t Overestimate Its Value

Higher Ed: Resiliency Of The System Tested in 2018-2019 School Year

Higher Ed: How Practices For A Healthy Mind Could Promote A Healthy Body Too

Higher Ed: Need For Global Connections Prompts Campuses To Examine Role In Local Community Too

Higher Ed: The Community-Building Power Of Ritual In Education

Higher Ed: A Mindset Shift Can Elicit Satisfaction And Even Joy From Intellectual Struggle

Higher Ed: Enjoying And Embracing Conflict (And Other Leadership Lessons Learned)

Higher Ed: Ethics, Authenticity and Education – Takeaways From The College Admissions Scandal

Higher Ed: Learning To Discern Your True Calling

Higher Ed: Trust And Communication Can Help “Helicopter” Parents Land Safely

Higher Ed: The Issues Brought Up By Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings And Controversial Campus Speakers

Higher Ed: Learning To Map “Baby” Steps To Reach Bigger Goals

Higher Ed: Have We Entered A Geological “Age Of Humans?”

Higher Ed: “Teacher’s Pet.” “Know-It-All.” “Brown-Noser.” How Labels Impact Learning

Higher Ed: Couldn’t We All Use A Little Help? The Impact Of Effective Mentoring

Higher Ed: Curiosity Did Not Kill The Cat

Higher Ed: The Biases We Bring To Information And Learning (They’re Complicated)

Higher Ed: Want A Great, Excellent, Challenging Way To Think And Learn More Deeply? Add An Adjective

Higher Ed: Developing “Intellectual Bravado” A.k.a. The Courage To Ask Any Question

Higher Ed: Does It Really Matter Where You Go To College?

Higher Ed: Agree To Disagree (Respectfully) In The Classroom

Higher Ed: Good Reading In And Out Of School

Higher Ed: Taking Skills Learned In The Classroom To The Voting Booth

Higher Ed: Better Problem Solving Through Puzzles

Higher Ed: Speaking Up And Speaking Out In The Classroom (And Elsewhere)

Higher Ed: Why The College Major May Matter Less Than We’ve Always Thought

Higher Ed: Self Promotion In Academia

Higher Ed: Effective Correction

Higher Ed: How Much Is Too Much On A College Application?

Higher Ed: Confronting Gender-Based Academic Bias

Higher Ed: Instructional Media Then And Now

Best Of “Higher Ed:” Academia And Industry In Harmony?

Best Of “Higher Ed:” Who’s Really In Control Of Learning

Best Of “Higher Ed:” Civility, Outrage And Discourse

Best Of “Higher Ed:” What ‘Like’ Means In Education

Best Of “Higher Ed:” The Great Homework Debate

Best Of “Higher Ed:” Competition In Education

Best Of “Higher Ed:” Puzzler Solutions And Real World Applications

Best of “Higher Ed:” Education’s Four-Letter Word

Best of “Higher Ed:” Who Knows Best When Choosing Classes?

Best of “Higher Ed:” What Constitutes A “Good” Education

Best of “Higher Ed:” When It’s Right To Transfer Schools

Higher Ed: Academia And Industry In Harmony?

Higher Ed: How Assumptions Impact Learning

Higher Ed: Pomp And Commencement Speeches

Higher Ed: Competing Demands In Education Lead To Stress

Higher Ed: The Teacher-Student Relationship

Higher Ed: Asking For Help In Education

Higher Ed: Helping Students Flourish In Careers Of The Future

Higher Ed: Respecting Young Learners

Best of “Higher Ed:” Solo Learning Vs. Group Projects

Higher Ed: Information Overload

Higher Ed: How Formal Education Can Instruct Us In Good Decision-Making

Higher Ed: Who’s Really In Control of Learning

Higher Ed: Civility, Outrage, and Discourse

Higher Ed: What “Like” Means In Education

Best of “Higher Ed:” When Is It Right To Transfer Schools

Higher Ed: The Great Homework Debate

Higher Ed: Competition In Education

Higher Ed: Puzzler Solutions And Real World Applications

Higher Ed: Education’s Four-Letter Word

Higher Ed: Who Knows Best When Choosing Classes

Higher Ed: Learning From A Disrupted School Year

Higher Ed: What Keeps Alumni Coming Back To Their Alma Mater

Higher Ed: What Constitutes A “Good” Education

Higher Ed: How Empathy Can Impact Learning

Higher Ed: Solo Learning vs. Group Projects

Higher Ed: Navigating a Math-y Career Pivot

Higher Ed: To Transfer or Not To Transfer

Higher Ed: Summer Mailbag and Back to School

Best of “Higher Ed:” Studying Abroad

Best of “Higher Ed:” Healthy Learning

Best of “Higher Ed:” ‘Social’ Media

Best of “Higher Ed:” Breaking Down Tough Questions

Best of “Higher Ed:” How I Learned to Love Calculus

Best of “Higher Ed:” Gratitude, Appreciation, and Learning

Best of “Higher Ed:” What’s Really Happening When We Learn

Best of “Higher Ed:” Curiosity, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids

Best of “Higher Ed:” What Does “Smart” Really Mean?

Higher Ed: Teaching Giving and Philanthropy

Higher Ed: Learning from the People You Meet

Higher Ed: College Readiness

Higher Ed: “Goodbyes” in Education

Higher Ed: Advice from Graduating Seniors to Their Younger Selves

Higher Ed: Teachers and Teaching

Higher Ed: Studying Abroad

Higher Ed: Healthy Learning

Higher Ed: Moving From Student to Teacher

Higher Ed: Working Efficiently vs. Working Well

Best of “Higher Ed:” How Outside Circumstances Can Impact Learning

Higher Ed: “Fake News” and Formal Education

Higher Ed: “Intellectual Hurt”

Higher Ed: Lifelong Learning in Action

Higher Ed: Curling Up With a Good… Podcast?

Higher Ed: “Social” Media

Higher Ed: What’s Hot in Higher Ed These Days

Higher Ed: Key Element of Effective Learning

Higher Ed: Student Perspective on Learning

Best of “Higher Ed:” New Year, New Commitment to Learning

Higher Ed: Gifts of Learning

Higher Ed: Breaking Down Tough Questions

Higher Ed: Different Learning Styles – Myth or Helpful Tool?

Higher Ed: How I Learned to Love Calculus

Higher Ed: What Else Could Be Taught in School?

Higher Ed: Has It Become “Cool” To Be Angry?

Higher Ed: Gratitude, Appreciation, and Learning

Higher Ed: What’s Really Happening When We Learn

Higher Ed: Curiosity, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids

Higher Ed: What Does “Smart” Really Mean?

Higher Ed: Leadership – Can It Be Taught and Learned?

Higher Ed: Different Learning Modes

Higher Ed: Do Traditional Academic Calendars and Clocks Still Work?

Best of “Higher Ed:” Learning and Doubt

Best of “Higher Ed:” Liberal Arts, Democracy, and the Media

Best of “Higher Ed:” Broad Strokes of Learning

Best of “Higher Ed:” Instinct vs. Intellect

Higher Ed: To Infinity and Beyond

Higher Ed: The “20-Year” Education Question

Higher Ed: Summertime and the Learning is Easy

Higher Ed: Math vs. Arithmetic

Higher Ed: Synthesized Thought vs. Original Thought

Higher Ed: Anxiety in Learning

Higher Ed: Grade Inflation

Higher Ed: Choosing a “Final Class”

Higher Ed: Commencement Reflections

Higher Ed: Graduation Advice to Our Younger Selves

Higher Ed: Making Math Fascinating

Higher Ed: Should Math Be a College Requirement?

Higher Ed: Roles and Responsibilities of Higher Ed

Higher Ed: The “Messiness” of Learning

Higher Ed: A Vision for Education

Higher Ed: Turning Learning Inside Out

Higher Ed: Choosing a College

Higher Ed: The Intersection of Arts and Sciences

Higher Ed: How Outside Circumstances Can Impact Learning

Higher Ed: Co-Curriculars and Learning

Higher Ed: Teaching Intangibles

Higher Ed: Time Management

Higher Ed: College Rankings

Higher Ed: Standardized Testing

Higher Ed: the Importance of Role Models and Mentors

Higher Ed: Learning More – and Liking It – in 2016

Higher Ed: Hmmmmm…….Learning and Doubt

Higher Ed: A+ or D- For Letter Grades?

Higher Ed: Learning and Regret

Higher Ed: Journeys in Education and Graduate School

Higher Ed: Instinct vs. Intellect

Higher Ed: Pedagogy and Puzzles

Higher Ed: Expertise in an Age of Rapid Change

Higher Ed: “Formal” Education

Higher Ed: Liberal Arts, Democracy, and the Media

Higher Ed: Broad Strokes of Learning

Higher Ed: Conquering Math “Phobia”

Higher Ed: Summer Break for the Brain

Higher Ed: Extreme Learning Makeover

Higher Ed: Deep Rest = Better Learning

Higher Ed: Aging and Learning

Higher Ed: Where Do Ideas Come From?

Higher Ed: Creating New Knowledge

Higher Ed: How Technology Impacts Learning

Higher Ed: The Meaning and Nuance of Numbers

Higher Ed: How to Understand Deeply and Make Meaning

Higher Ed: Learning to “Unlearn”

Higher Ed: Happiness 101?

Higher Ed: Who’s An “Expert” In Education?

Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics, and More Converge in 3-D Printing

Higher Ed: Love of Learning

Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in Less Than 10 Minutes

Higher Ed: The Ins and Outs of Liberal Arts

Higher Ed: The Art of Creating Questions

Higher Ed: The Importance of Failure to Learning