Using Challenges to Motivate Learners, with Michael Wesch

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

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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

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