Using Challenges to Motivate Learners

Michael Wesch shares about using challenges to motivate learners on episode 282 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.
-Michael Wesch

How do you be completely yourself while also being of great value to your students?
-Michael Wesch

Teaching doesn’t just happen in the classroom, it is a constant meditation.
-Michael Wesch

Shared difficulty creates tremendous community.
-Michael Wesch

Resources

• ACUE: What Inspired Me to Redesign My Syllabus
• ACUE: Developing Fair, Consistent, and Transparent Grading Practices
• ACUE: Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
• ACUE: Preparing an Effective Syllabus
• Homework vs assignments vs challenges
• The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life, by Bernard McGrane
• Ryan Klataske
• The UnThing Experiment
• Life101 Podcast
• How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half, by Jeff Young for EdSurge
• Desirable difficulties – Robert Bjork coined the term.
• Episode 277 with Derek Bruff
• Video: 10 Tips for Online Teaching Video
• Video: Wesch made in Vietnam (his first try at something like this)
• Anth101 – Built with Ryan Klataske and Tom Woodward