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The FACILITATOR

North Central State College Ctr for Teaching Excellence

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 53

The Facilitator series is produced by North Central State College for college-level educators seeking to improve their teaching techniques, and at the same time, the success of their students. Throughout the series we will explore current education trends, the changes and challenges facing faculty today, as well as the application of education best practices that are currently being implemented here at NC State.

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Ep 42- Flipped Classroom

Episode 42

Wednesday, August 6, 2025 • Duration 15:59

Shella & Mike talk about the oldie but a goodie of the 'Flipped' Classroom for live session classes (Hybrid or traditional). What, Why & How & its relevance to the AI age.

Teaching Resources Mentioned:

Flipped Classroom Tips & Rsrcs.
Zoom Lecture Chunk Recording
Learning Glass Studio
Best Practice Active Learning Techniques
Team-Based Learning

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Ep 41- Grading Rubrics

Episode 41

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • Duration 16:15

Shella & Mike talk about one of the indispensable teaching tools to any college teacher- Grading Rubrics. They discuss different kinds, how to get started and top tips for getting biggest learning and success bang for the buck with them.

Teaching Resources Mentioned:

Grading Rubrics Rsrcs & Tips
Single-Point Grading Rubric
Rubistar Rubric Repository/ Builder

Canvas Rubric Tools How Tos

Canvas Rubrics Tool
Canvas Rubric Grading in SpeedGrader
Canvas Peer Review (w/Rubric) Tool

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Ep 32 - 4 Steps to Educative Assessment

Season 2 · Episode 32

Thursday, October 10, 2024 • Duration 08:45

The primary method to assess what our students know, throughout Higher ed, remains stuck in a silo to simply audit and provide a grade, rather than a fully integrated learning tool itself. L. Dee Fink in Creating Significant Learning Experiences (& others) have advocated for applying the research for an intentional shift to "Educative" Assessment. Mike unpacks the 4 pillars of this approach to assessment.

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Educative Assessment
Giving Prompt Feedback
Grading Rubrics
Peer Review

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Ep 31 - Hacking Powerpoint for Effective Presentations with Pecha Kucha

Season 2 · Episode 31

Monday, September 30, 2024 • Duration 09:09

'Death by Powerpoint' is real. We know from the literature that doing default Powerpoint presentations reduces comprehension, retention and engagement out of a classroom, with time for active activities being lost as well. However, hacking PowerPoint by using the 'Pecha Kucha' (or its cousin Ignite Talk) format, make TED-talk style, engaging, cognitively effective and time efficient presentations of material that opens up time for application and active activities follow-up.

Episode Resources:

Pecha Kucha (Ignite Talk) Presentation Example, Tips & Resources
"The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" (Tufte)
Five Ways to Reduce PowerPoint Overload [PDF]

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Ep 30 - Hacking Quality Matters: Standard 1 Course Intro (Live)

Episode 30

Monday, September 23, 2024 • Duration 17:36

Excerpt of Shella & Mike's Live workshop on tips to Hack Quality Matters (QM) Course Design Rubric- Standard #1 (Course Introduction). Three specific levels of building the key parts of this standard into your courses are discussed - Beginner (quick & dirty), Intermediate (little bit more time/ tinkering) & Advanced (digging into it).

Episode Resources:

Quality Matters Course Design Benchmarks
CTE's START HERE/ Week 1/2 Module QM Templates
Harvard's Project Zero Thinking Routines: Introducing & Exploring Ideas
Instructor Presence & Interaction
Recording Mini Zoom Videos
Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI) Standards

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Ep 29 - Mini Lecture Recording Top Tips

Season 2 · Episode 29

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 • Duration 09:25

Mike does a brief dive into a collection of top tips for making cognitive friendly, reusable and easy to maintain mini lecture 'chunks' with a professional polish.

Episode Resources:

Zoom Tips (Live or Recording)
Mini Lecture Recording with Zoom
Taking Teaching Online: The Micro-Lecture
Why Long Lectures Are Ineffective
Cheapest Way to Soundproof a Room

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EP 28 - James Lang's "Small Teaching" Low/No Prep Learning Science Best Practices

Episode 28

Thursday, August 1, 2024 • Duration 09:25

Mike takes a spin at a brief WHAT/WHY/HOW of James Lang's "Small Teaching." Now in its 2nd edition, Lang's book wonderfully lays out and distills 3 key elements form the science of learning - KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING & INSPIRATION. A starter for each of the HOW for the three specific principles under each of the headers can be done in Low/ No Prep by faculty in any area.

Episode Resources:

Episode 25 - Activating Prior Learning (HOWs for the RETREIVING principle)
Small Teaching Faculty Hub Summary/ Resource Page
Small Teaching Book (ThriftBooks copies from $6)

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Ep 27 - Usability of Course Sites & Materials

Season 2 · Episode 27

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 • Duration 13:04

Flying solo, Mike dives into how application of principles from usability research to our course sites & materials can promote student success, engagement & Retention. Mike introduces the WHAT of Usability with ISO 9241 & Nielsen Norman Group's definitions. The linkage to WHY is addressed with intersection of several course design quality rubrics and teaching best practices. Then the application with HOW starts with Modules Usability (& common misuses). Next, chunking topical content via PAGES, as well as Optimizing Text for reading on screens., Naming Conventions & Consistent formatting is discussed. Our Usability world cheat sheet concludes with looking at LEGIBILITY & READABILITY of course materials - whether digital or hard copy etc.

Episode Resources:

5 Ways to Optimize Canvas Sites Tips, Examples & How Tos
8 Ways to Optimize Course Content Tips, Examples & How Tos
The Hemingway app
Legibility Readability & Comprehension: Making Users Read Your Words [Nielsen Norman Group]

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EP 26 -Alternatives to Lecturing

Season 2 · Episode 26

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Duration 18:42

Amid the ongoing scrutiny of the value of higher ed education, Shella & Mike dive into the timely topic of how to increase the learning value of classes with alternatives to lecturing. While lecture lurches on in higher ed (for now) as a predominant teaching technique, science and mounds of data tells it is a poor teaching tool with 5% of info being retained on average from a lecture. As such, we turn to the WHAT/ WHY (see above) & most crucially the HOW to diversify our teaching toolbelt!

Episode Resources:

NCSC Ctr for Teaching Excellence Non-Lecture Teaching Techniques
226 Active Learning Techniques (Iowa State U.)

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Ep 25 - Activating Prior Learning For Engagement

Season 2 · Episode 25

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 • Duration 16:16

Wading into the WHAT/ WHY & HOW of levering the powerful learning science of Activating Prior Learning for Engagement, support student (& Faculty!) time on task and promoting success.

Episode Resources:

NCSC Ctr for Teaching Excellence Activating Prior Learning Tips/ Resources

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