Transcript of Season 2, Episode 5 

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Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is also the Director of Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories 

Lucas Anderson is a Specialist in Education at CITL. Check out his blog where he writes about developing a teaching philosophy statement and other teaching topics. 

Who says engineers can’t have pizazz?! Ether through sheer silliness or deeply rooted pedagogy (or both – or neither!), Blake Johnson made low effort decisions to infuse some style into the pressure cooker situation of converting engineering lab courses into an online modality within a week to accommodate pandemic response in March 2020. Here’s a link to a sample of these lab videos sent to students in lieu of them being in the facility: Stylized Remote Lab Procedures Example - ME 320 Lab 5. 

Listen to his reflections on the process of converting labs under impossible circumstances all while maintaining his fun - yet rigorous - teaching affect. 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 4 

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Daniel J. Simons is a Professor in Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

Emelie Mies is a Technology Support Specialist at the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at UIUC. 

Thinking about one’s thinking is a rather unintuitive and fraught process, especially if we’re in a learner/student context! But this conversation, and Prof. Dan Simons research, might be a big help to jumpstarting that metacognition analysis. Hope you enjoy some connections between scam artists, signal to noise, pattern bias, incentive structures and a student’s journey through higher education. 

Did you enjoy this episode, or do you have a story to share about your teaching? Drop us a note at ttll@illinois.edu. 

This podcast was produced by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at the University of Illinois. Episodes can be found on our website, citl.illinois.edu, and major podcast platforms. We hope you’ll find us there and join the conversation! 

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Transcript of Season 2, Episode 3 

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Christine Shenouda is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). 

Liam Moran is a Systems Specialist in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning at UIUC. 

These days, higher ed institutions and whole degree programs are thinking about their strategy for building online offerings. We invited someone who’s been deliberately building online offerings at a department level since well before our global experiment with online ed. Christine shares some of their story from Psychology, and also their rationale behind those choices. 

Did you enjoy this episode, or do you have a story to share about your teaching? Drop us a note at ttll@illinois.edu. 

This podcast was produced by the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at the University of Illinois. Episodes can be found on our website, citl.illinois.edu, and major podcast platforms. We hope you’ll find us there and join the conversation! 

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